July 14, 2007
Posted by yaman
Racism is nothing more than a mistake in analysis, and a logical error. It is not racist, as is often believed, to harbor malice towards another group of people. It is simply hateful. Considering that group of people to be a group worthy of any one feeling in the first place is what is racist. [...]
June 22, 2007
Posted by yaman
“You can lecture me about B’tselem the day you can show there is a B’tselem on your side prepared to do something about human rights violations in the Arab world,” I was once told after citing reports by the Israeli human rights organization B’tselem to mock a claim that the occupation of Palestine was ‘humanitarian.’ [...]
April 10, 2007
Posted by yaman
Pundits and propagandists alike often pose this question to those who dissent against current American and Israeli policies in the Middle East. For them, the dichotomy is simply one of “I support terrorism” or “I am against terrorism.” The slightest deviation from thought deemed acceptable by those coordinating policy results in such a question, even [...]
A Yale-sponsored conference about anti-Semitism hosted many blatantly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers. It is unconscionable for a center meant to study one form of racism to indulge speakers who practice another.
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Both the Irish and Middle Eastern conflicts figure prominently in American domestic politics — yet both have played out in very different ways.
A must read piece by Ali Abunimah in NYT.
(Discussion)abc Primetime – How Muslims Are Treated In USA
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To get an idea of the real reason why Apple has succeeded, it was only necessary to look below the May article hailing the company’s success on the front page of the Times business section. A second article reported on a spate of suicides in some Chinese sweatshops that was drawing attention to work…
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Immediately following the incident, McCord was threatened and mocked by his commanding officer for pulling the children from the van. He says his platoon leader “yelled at me that I need to quit worrying about these ‘motherfucking kids’ and pull security.” McCord later approached a staff sergeant an…
Remember the “Collateral Murder” video leaked of the helicopter attack that killed a journalist? Here’s some insights from one of the soldiers at the scene and into the way it was handled by military personnel.
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Portraying “enemy” infants as proto-terrorists has obvious propaganda value: if what you thought was an innocent baby is in fact a weapon with a human face, you will be less likely to protest when it is killed. Murder becomes self-defence. Not only are we supposed to view ‘their’ children as latent …
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HarvardManagementCompany, which manages the university’sendowment, has divested the fund from allinvestmentsit had inIsraelcompanies.
I’m a small pariah state, hear me pout. Though I’m a scandal, don’t shut me out!
(Discussion)A mere thirty-three years ago, on January 20, 1977, Jimmy Carter inaugurated his presidency by proclaiming from the Capitol steps, “Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere…. Our commitment to human rights must be absolute.” Most people had never heard of “h…
Thought provoking article for people chained to the language of human rights.
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