Tag: Palestine
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.
Angela Davis’s special message of solidarity
A global YouTube rally in protest of the defunding UN Aid to Palestinian people.
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.
Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa, filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.
“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide” says 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire (79) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in the history of Israel’s founding since May 1948: “Israel cannot build peace on genocide. We have got to find more humane ways to solve our problems.”
Gaza’s Children & Our Rohingya Children: A Tale of Israeli and Myanmar Genocides
We, the Rohingya have been chased from our homelands through a series of massacres and Burmese military campaigns since 1978. Our villages have been exterminated and wiped out of all maps. The Palestinian situation is just the same, if not, even worse.
Speech by Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad for Global Solidarity and Rally for Free Palestine
Watch the the pre-recorded address of HE Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad for Global Solidarity and Rally for Free Palestine on 4th Nov 2023. See video of the full event.