Category: Featured
Featured articles from FORSEA contributors.
Yes, I am a Globalist
We live in a world that is so interdependent that the World Community cannot afford to have large parts, like the United States, turn rogue and attempt to call all the shots, without cooperating and paying their share.
Rohingya and Palestine Genocides: Zarni’s Comparative Analysis
These days whenever I am asked to speak on my own old country’s genocide, which is still ongoing against the Rohingya people, I insist on offering a comparative perspective.
Sweeping Censorship Will-Further Harm Australia’s Academic Reputation and Drive International Students Away: A Statement of Concern from a Burmese Genocide Scholar
If Australian governments and legislatures are seriously concerned about antisemitism, then the most logical and strategic approach would be to work with other UN member states to bring an end to the genocide.
Webinar: The ongoing genocide against the Rohingya people
This webinar, hosted by the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security in partnership with FORSEA (Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia), will bring attention to the ongoing genocide faced by the Rohingya people, the hard work being done by Rohingya youth to keep their community and their identity alive in ever-worsening circumstances, and the prospects for their safe return to a future Myanmar that is free from the Tatmadaw.
Don’t talk or write about Palestine: it is a career killer
Palestine is a “career killer”. That was the advice given by a senior academic at the University of Queensland to a PhD student, according to a submission received from a former student and staff member. In short, if you talk or write about Palestine, don’t expect to have a career at an Australian university.
Red- tagging in Australia: Whose Side is the Government On?
There are limits to what can be considered “in confidence”. The rights of citizens should be protected, not traded off for the sake of good relations with a murderous regime.
“Seventy percent of Israel’s cost of munition and weapons used in Gaza are paid by the United States.” A Conversation with Israeli historian Lee Mordechai in Jerusalem
“It would be impossible for Israel to wage this war (of annihilation) in the way it has been waged without the American support.”
Genocide as Israel’s “Banality of Evil”: Six-decades after Adolf Eichmann’s Trial in Jerusalem
Since its founding in May 1948, Israel and its leaders have envisaged, bureaucratized and normalized death, destruction, displacement and dispossession of the natives of Palestine.
Hindutva India deporting Rohingya refugees by throwing them into the Andaman Sea
On 17 May, The New York Times reports that “(t)he United Nations has called for an investigation into “credible reports” that Indian authorities rounded up Rohingya refugees and expelled them, in some cases by putting them into the Andaman Sea off the shore of the same country they had escaped from, fearing persecution and death.”
Do Trump’s Policies Amount to the “Ethnic Cleansing” of America?
We are now only four months into the new administration, but in this short time, it has become clear that Trump’s America is not just a cultural war, but a demographic one as well.