Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
Burma undergoes quasi-Balkanization and the embattled junta resorts to mass conscription
No Burmese in their right minds have bought into the spin “service to the nation” from the junta leadership. Reportedly, young men and women are frantically finding ways to exit the country.
The Arakan Army and a “Divided Myanmar”
The spectre of a divided Myanmar is often raised, both out of a genuine fear of the consequences for everyday people or the admitted complications it would raise for international security or out of a less scrupulous desire to maintain the status quo or to challenge it out of self-interest.
Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak on Israel
Drawing on one of the world’s most influential anti-colonial scholars and revolutionaries, Frantz Fanon, Professor Spivak speaks on the root cause of the unceasing waves of violence against and by Israel when she points out that the violence by the colonizer/oppressor violence generates violence by the colonized/oppressed. To end this, the colonial conditions must first end.
မြန်မာ့နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေးကိုဦးဆောင်နေသူများ၏ အန္တရယ်ကြီးသောအားနည်းချက်နှင့် အမျိုးသမီးထုအပေါ်သက်ရောက်မှု
(The Achilles heel of the leadership of the spring revolution and its impact on women)
A Global Rally Against US-led De-funding of Palestinian Aid Agency UNRWA: Pre-recorded Messages of Protest
This compilation of pre-recorded messages of solidarity with Palestinian people follows the stand-alone recording by the world-renowned feminist scholar and black revolutionary thinker Angela Davis of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Angela Davis’s special message of solidarity
A global YouTube rally in protest of the defunding UN Aid to Palestinian people.
Israel has the right to exist, but not this genocidal, expansionist Israel
Amidst the talk of “the two-state solution”, the United Nations or Nations United Against Evil, must first address the fundamental question: Should this Israel exist, as “the most aggressive, expansionist, overtly racist, Jewish supremacist government in Israel’s history?”
Ecolibrium, On Humans, Animals and Nature in Islam
According to the Quran, … humans are not unique as sentient forms of life but are a class of species in the cosmos who can either be a creative or a destructive force in nature. They are responsible for the safekeeping of the intrinsic balance of nature.
NOT THIS ISRAEL, NOT THIS JEW: A Jewish Voice for Peace
Uncritical support of Israel is destroying the spiritual core of Judaism itself – a dagger in the Jewish heart. Christians had to reckon with their deeds after the Holocaust. Jews need to do that now. Israel may have a right to exist, but not this Israel. It’s counter-intuitive and difficult to digest but conscience can be seduced and obscured: even our own. I promised never again. Never again is now.
“Depopulating” Palestine: Israel Through the Bifocal Lens of Hitler and Lemkin
As a human rights campaigner and a student of genocides, in my attempts to understand Israel’s physical destruction of Gaza in particular, and its foundational Zionist policies in Palestine, I find most helpful to turn to Raphael Lemkin’s grounded and multi-faceted conception of genocide and Hitler’s “blood-based” ideas of “race-state” and racialized land.