Tag: Abuses
The Uses and Abuses of Language in Israel’s War on Palestinians
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December 21, 2023
Israel and its allies have deliberately crafted language not only to justify their actions but also to persuade taxpaying publics at home and abroad of their moral correctness.
An Israeli soldier writes on a mortar near the Israel-Gaza border on December 20, 2023.
(Tsafrir Abayov / AP Photo)
All colonial projects are supported by perversions of language. From American expansion into the “Wild West” to European colonization of African “savages,” deliberately crafted euphemisms
MEPs slam EU over ‘grave’ human rights abuses following Tunisia migrant deal – EURACTIV.com
EU lawmakers have accused the European Commission of ignoring ‘grave violations’ of human rights in its ‘cash for migrant control’ agreement with Tunisia in a letter to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen published on Thursday (27 July).
The letter, signed by a cross-party group of MEPs, complains that the EU-Tunisia deal “fails to address core human rights concerns observed in Tunisia”.
“The failure to address such concerns, which include grave violations of the rights of migrants and asylum seekers
‘Phoenix Rising,’ Marilyn Manson, and the Abuses of Art
One of the visual conceits of Phoenix Rising—a new two-part HBO documentary about the actor Evan Rachel Wood’s allegations of abuse at the hands of the rock musician Marilyn Manson—is a series of animated sequences that portray Wood as a cherubic, Alice-like doll and Manson as a macabre monster whose darkness infects and imprisons her. It’s a curiously heavy-handed choice, as though Wood’s raw testimony weren’t enough. In reality, her recounting of the things she says Manson did to