These days I’ve been insanely busy, and though I’ve been meaning to get back into my writing, it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do too much in terms of a proper post for a while. So instead I’ll share some interesting political art I came across the other day, dealing with the Iraq [...]
Amazing how this is news from a Muslim country. Having a similar ban on hijabs would be unimaginable in Canadian universities, and rightfully so. Article from the Toronto Star:
ANKARA–Turkey’s Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party and a key opposition party agreed yesterday to co-operate to lift a ban on the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in universities.
The [...]
He’s a high school history teacher in Baltimore. Man, why didn’t I have teachers like that? And slightly off topic… George Habash died! And the New York Times starts off his obituary with this headline. Lies galore.
No one can stop the Palestinians…
“… the Palestinians represent far more than just themselves. Their refusal to submit to the dictates of governments, or to governments’ lack of interest in the well-being of people in general, reflects the desire of billions of oppressed people for identity, freedom, a decent life and actualization of their collective [...]
After two days of being on Canada’s torture watch list, Israel and the United States have already been removed. Apparently it was just so outrageous that our allies be on a torture watch list that the government felt the need to apologize and remove such a terrible mistake. Torture is something China and Syria do. [...]
So far there have been 38 deaths from Israeli bombing since Monday, 100 injured, with 45 of those being children. Israel has already cut fuel and electricity to Gaza, where they are currently in the midst of the coldest winter in several years. As of Friday, Israel has sealed all borders, which will prevent [...]
An interesting interview I came across with Professor Ilan Pappe, an Israeli historian.
Professor Pappe, you write of ethnic cleansing, in 1948, as the foundational moment of Israel. In this way you shatter the “topos” of the voluntary exile of the Palestinians.
“The Palestinians were driven out in 1947-48, even though the official historical record speaks about [...]
