Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
Hebron’s Palestinians Resist Israel’s “Evil” Occupation, Violent Settlers & Daily Humiliations A dialogue with Issa Amro, Winner of 2024 Right Livelihood Award
“Israel is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),” said the 45-years old Issa Amro, an engineer by training but creative non-violence resister in the Old City of Hebron.
Munther Isaac: “Israel is a terrorist entity built on the Palestinian land by ethnic cleansing of the indigenous populations”
In early January, at his theology college in his native Beit Sahour (Shepherd’s Fields), adjacent to Bethlehem, the renowned Palestinian theologian and activist Dr Munther Issac met with a group of solidarity visitors, from six different countries, including FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni, and shared his frank thoughts on both the 76-years of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the grave dangers which Israel’s western imperialist patrons pose to humanity at...
Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America? Why History Should Count
The Trump Administration changing the Gulf’s indigenous name demonstrates the continuing control over political institutions by the descendants of European settler populations – illegal migrants, in today’s western parlance – who continue to seek to erase the actual crimes of their Euro-supremacist ancestors’ genocidal theft of that extra-European land – and sea.
Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, The West Bank
For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.
Myanmar’s 77th Independence Anniversary Amid Political Tensions and Armed Conflicts
On the 77th anniversary of its independence from Britain, Myanmar, under military rule, continues to face political tensions, instability, and armed conflicts.
Kurds: Building an Alternative Justice System in Eastern Turkey
The following are the notes of a discussion between Professor Gill H. Boehringer and two persons, SD and FV, who are familiar with the system being developed by Kurdish communities within the framework of their program of “democratic confederalism”.
World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism
A member of the Jewish Voice for Peace and a Jewish American scholar, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
“What’s wrong with Rights?” The West and its cherry-picking of universal human rights. An interview with Jack Healey, “Mr Human Rights” in the Cold War era
“Human rights as something which every mother would want for their children” – Jack Healey, former Executive Director of Amnesty International/USA.
Syrian Refugee Ban: The Latest UK Foreign Policy Evil
The UK’s decision to suspend Syrian asylum applications highlights the enduring cruelty of a racist, imperial mindset – we must reverse it now and welcome all asylum seekers.
Understanding ICC Prosecutor’s Arrest Warrant Application for Myanmar Military Leader: Anti-Genocide Perspective
Without the willing executioners and cheerleaders, no state is capable of large-scale crimes against humanity of which genocide is one, from the Nazi genocide to Rwanda, to Indonesia’s CIA-facilitated genocide of ethnic Chinese and communists, to the ongoing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya is no exception.