Tag: genocide
War, Genocide, Violence, and the Gospel’s Response
The following sermon by Bishop William J. Barber, II was delivered on April 26 at the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina.
As we are gathered together on the edge of a university campus this evening, protests are interrupting the end of the school year at colleges and universities across the country.
As scenes of conflict in places we’re familiar with fill our screens, people are arguing about tactics, about the responses from administrators and local law enforcement, … Read more
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is a World Historical Crime
April 17, 2024
When Jews were being slaughtered by the Nazis, the world turned away. Now, the world has awakened to Israel’s crimes.
A funeral ceremony is held for Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed along with his family members in an air strike on his home in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on November 3, 2023.
(Abed Zagout / Anadolu via Getty Images)
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The Echoes of Israeli Apartheid in Myanmar
The parallels in conditions imposed on Palestinians and Rohingya reveal how elements of Israel’s genocidal project appear to have been taken up by Myanmar.
Demonstrators stage a rally to protest Myanmar’s oppression of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmars Rakhine state, in Gaza City on September 10, 2017.
(Ali Jadallah / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)
When reports began circulating of South Africa’s bid to bring Israel to the International Court of Justice, I thought back to a comment made
Ex-Obama-Berater sagt, Biden stehe vor einem „großen Problem“, da junge Wähler ihn inmitten des Gaza-Krieges „Genocide Joe“ nennen
Der frühere Obama-Beamte Van Jones warnte am Donnerstag, dass Biden „viel Arbeit vor sich hat“, wenn er versucht, das Vertrauen junger, arabischer und muslimischer Wähler zurückzugewinnen, die seine Unterstützung Israels im Gaza-Krieg ablehnen.
Präsident Biden sieht sich mit einer Wahlrevolte unter arabischen und muslimischen Wählern in Michigan konfrontiert, die über seine anhaltende Unterstützung für Israel empört sind, und einige beschuldigen ihn sogar, den Völkermord ermöglicht zu haben. In Michigan lebende arabische Amerikaner sind traditionell zuverlässige Demokraten, wobei Biden im Jahr
Why Israel Is Taking the Genocide Case Seriously
South Africa dropped a bombshell on the international community in December, claiming in the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ highest judicial body, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. No doubt Pretoria, a longtime supporter of Palestine and in a deteriorating diplomatic relationship with Israel, had political reasons to bring what most Israelis view as an outrageous claim. But to dismiss the case as political theater would be a mistake.
Israel did not send a team of government
“Think of It as a Genocide of Journalists”
Last May, the Committee to Protect Journalists published a special report on the Israeli military’s targeted killing of Palestinian journalists. The CPJ investigated 20 instances since the turn of the millennium in which Palestinian journalists—most infamously, the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh—were slain by IDF soldiers and found that in none of them was anyone held responsible.
Half a year later, journalists are once again under attack again in Palestine, this time at an unprecedented rate. Since the Israeli … Read more
The ‘dirty dozen’ of Davos – POLITICO
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It’s that time of year again: Leaders, business titans, philanthropists and celebs descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos to discuss the fate of the world and do deals/shots with the global elite at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
This year’s theme: “Rebuilding trust.” Prescient, given the dumpster fire the world seems to be turning into lately, both literally (climate change) and figuratively (where to
South Africa’s ICJ Case Against Israel Is a Call to Break Free From the Imperial West
South Africa is not only challenging Israel—it is trying to break the spell of US hegemony.
Palestinians carrying flags and banners gather at the Nelson Mandela Square to demonstrate in support of the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice, on January 10, 2024, in Ramallah, the West Bank.
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Unfortunately for long-suffering Palestinians, the “necessity” of organized violence to slaughter many thousands of civilians
The Idea of the Nation-State Is Synonymous With Genocide
In 1972, Mahmood Mamdani was among some 80,000 Ugandans of Indian origin who were expelled and made refugees by Idi Amin, who had taken power in a military coup the previous year. Mamdani had spent much of the prior decade in the United States, where he studied and participated in civil rights campaigns. He returned to Uganda, his childhood home, in early 1972 “as a convinced pan-African nationalist,” he wrote, “but was thrown out later in the year as an … Read more
POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which