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Canada, Israel and the Gay Pride
26 June 2010, by siawi2Source via Women In Black: http://networkedblogs.com/59MSD
Under pressure, Pride Toronto reverses censorship of “Israeli apartheidâ€
We’ve written extensively about the pressure campaign led in part by Canada’s B’nai Brith to ban the group (...) -
Israel: A Head of School speaks up
20 June 2010, by siawi2Source : Occupation magazine
http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=40651
How I was summoned to the Knesset
by Ram Cohen
Ynet Hebrew, June 18 2010
http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3907144,00.html
Translation Adam Keller, for The (...) -
Israel: The coalition of women for peace’s position paper
24 June 2010, by siawi2Dear friends and supporters of the Coalition of Women for Peace,
Below you will find an update about recent legislative developments that attempt to restrict the work of Israeli NGOs, particularly CWP, as well as a position paper to the European (...) -
BAHRAIN - WOMEN MARRIED TO FOREIGNERS NATIONALITY CAMPAIGN
25 May 2010, by siawi2MANAMA — Bahraini women married to foreigners have vowed to step in during parliamentary elections to be held this year to pressure the government to amend in the nationality law.
During a meeting between the Bahraini women married to foreigners (...) -
Serbia: My neighbor Radovan Karadzic
23 July 2008(Published at: boingboing.net, 22 July 2008)
Radovan Karadzic, the poet of Serbian war crimes, one of the two most wanted criminals in the Balkans, the guy with fluffy locks, was captured last night in Belgrade, Serbia.
According to the (...) -
Pakistan: Extremists winning in competition with the state to use religion as ideology
27 July 2008, by siawi(Published in the: The Friday Times, July 18-24, 2008)
No buyers for state’s narrative
by Ejaz Haider
A narrative is a story. A story is a construct because it rearranges, redefines and makes sense of events through selection. Selection is (...) -
India: Silence on Human Rights abuses in conflict zones
26 November 2017, by siawi3Those who advocate for human rights in conflict zones have always been targeted as ‘bleeding heart jholawallahs’. Now, a new word has been added to the divisive lexicon: ‘anti-national’. In an increasingly politically polarized climate, the narrative over human rights is now shaped in a toxic and frenzied manner that allows little space for a reasonable dialogue. It is precisely this veil of silence that must be lifted: a strong nation must have the resilience and the capacity to confront inconvenient truths.
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France: Après 13 actes racistes, le maire de Strasbourg appelle au sursaut
7 October 2010, by siawi2L’Humanité, 5 Octobre, 2010
Roland Ries (PS), a lancé lundi un appel à “un front républicain de refus de l’inacceptable” après la multiplication d’actes racistes depuis le début de l’année dans l’agglomération. Le maire de Strasbourg, qui a (...) -
India: A deliberate process of mythologising the revolutionaries in order to make them ’suitable’
8 January 2016, by siawi3There is an interesting commonality how ruling classes try to coopt/appropriate images of leaders of the oppressed. It is a three step process: First, they try to ignore them ; second, when this tactics fails they grudgingly acknowledge them ; third, they try to carve out a ’suitable’ revolutionary for their own ’use’. They are adept at what a scholar describes as a deliberate process of ‘mythologising the (great) wo/men and marginalising their meanings.’
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BLOOD, SOIL AND CITIZENSHIP
7 November 2018, by siawi3The French republican tradition views citizenship from a universalist perspective, without regard for ethnicity or culture. German nationalism draws upon Romantic ideas of the volk, rooted in a specific history, culture and race.
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