A World to Win | Front line | Israel privatises the occupation
"This privatisation and globalisation of the Israeli state was kick started by premier Benjamin Netanyahu during his first period in office from 1996 to 1999. During his most recent period as premier, his priority has been to carry out the same process in respect of the occupied territories.
Netanyahu wants to substitute what he calls “economic peace” for the peace process. An example of how this works is in the town of Jenin, a Palestinian town now entirely enclosed by the illegal wall. Palestinians on the other side are now being offered day shopping passes to enter Jenin and spend."Shame on ADC’s racism against Nigerians | KABOBfest
"ADC should know that if it is trying to fight racial profiling, pointing out a terror suspect is not Arab is just as bad as pointing out that s/he is–unless the goal is to replace one racist idea of Arabs as the “bad” minority with another racist idea of them as the “good” minority.
More importantly, it’s embarrassingly hypocritical and shameful that an Arab-American organization dedicated to fighting racism and racial profiling (something Arab-Americans and other people of color are quite familiar with) seizes upon this opportunity to dodge the terror lime light rather than to stand in solidarity with other innocent groups of people that suspicion now shines upon."hawgblawg: Rihanna's "Hard" Video: Supporting the Afghan Surge
"At the same time, Bayoumi argues, "African Americans have emerged in popular culture in recent years as the leaders of an American nation and an American empire." Moreover, he says, " this image often revolves fundamentally around the idea of black friendship with Muslims and Arabs, a friendship not among equals but of a modified projection of American power." To simplify, then, the long and venerable tradition of African-Americans opposing US imperialism is increasingly abandoned in favor of a civil rights position of actively participating in all aspects of US life, including US imperialism. Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama: all faces designed, or used, to make our empire acceptable, at home, and abroad. (Of course it's not just "faces." It's active involvement and even policy determination.)"
Deep South calls in Iran to cure its health blues - Times Online
Jesus was a Palestinian and Why it Matters « Muslim Reverie
"Despite these facts, there are those who use the color-blind argument: “It does not matter what Jesus’ ethnicity or skin color was. It does not matter what language he spoke. Jesus is for all people, whether you’re Black, White, Brown, Yellow, etc.” While this is a well-intentioned expression of inclusiveness and universalism, it misses the point.
When you see so many depictions of Jesus as a Western White man with Euro-American features, the ethnocentrism and race-bending needs to be called out. No person is superior to another based on skin color, but to ignore the way Jesus’ Whiteness has been used to subjugate and discriminate against racial minorities in the West and many other countries is to overlook another important aspect of Jesus’ teachings: Love thy neighbor as thyself."Muslims as Model Minority? | KABOBfest
The article referenced in this post can be found here: http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/12/21/muslims-versus-americans/
Gaza Freedom March Planned for One-Year Anniversary of Israeli Assault
"HEDY EPSTEIN: OK. I was born in Germany, and when Hitler came to power, I was eight years old. And my parents quickly realized that Germany was not a place to raise a family under the Nazi regime. And so, they tried to leave Germany and increasingly were more desperate about getting out anywhere in the world. But there was one place they were not willing to go to, and that was Palestine.
And why was that? Because they were ardent anti-Zionists. And as a child, I didn’t really know what or understand fully what Zionism or anti-Zionism is about. But if my parents were anti-Zionist, so was I. "News: The New GRE, Redux - Inside Higher Ed
Article on changes to the GRE exam, beginning in Fall 2011
YouTube - The House is Black / خانه سیاه است, فیلمی از فروغ فرخزاد
Forough Farrokhzad's classic 1962 short film/documentary on a leper colony.
Iraq Deaths | Just Foreign Policy
One million, three hundred sixty-six thousand, three hunded and fifty stolen lives.
YouTube - Omar Offendum (USA/Syria) Live at Words Beats Life in Washington DC '09
It’s Time to Get Real: Obama is Wrong « Muslim Reverie
"In several debates with fellow Muslims, I’ve been told that the Afghan and Pakistani people “aren’t taking a stand,” so Obama’s military intervention is “justified.” Again, this does a great disservice to the efforts of Afghans and Pakistanis who are risking their lives in combating violent extremism. But it does not help when you’re being attacked by both sides: The Taliban on one hand, and the U.S. military occupation/drone attacks on the other."
See what you made me do – On secular ‘honour’ killings – The Stump
"The result is that Western ‘honour’ killings – men murdering their partners out of rage at perceived humiliation, deceit, disobedience or whatever – are never named as such. Yet they conform to an individualistic culture, as much as Muslim honour killings do to a monotheistic patriachal [sic] one. The male wounded ego, the enraged self has to be restored to a sense of power – first by violence and then by murder."
Qantara.de - Using Irony to Tackle Trauma
Good interview with Sinan Antoon. I've only read it in translation, but I`jaam is a beautiful novel - highly recommended.
Qantara.de - Language, Poetry, and Singularity
"Furthermore, the Arab Jews who immigrated to Israel after its establishment were exposed to a hegemonic Hebrew-Zionist establishment, which imposed its interpretive norms on all cultural communities under the umbrella of leftist liberalism, and at the same time despised and feared the Orient and its culture. The policy of remodelling the identity of Arab-Jewish immigrants in an Ashkenazi image and cultural identity was no different from the British policy in India, which Thomas Babington Macaulay defined in a speech he made in 1834 before the General Committee on Public Instruction.
Speaking on the educational objectives of the British in India, he called for the creation of a new type of person who would be 'Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.' The Zionist movement succeeded where even the British had failed: in creating a new model of an Israeli who is Oriental in blood and colour, but Zionist and Ashkenazi in taste and in opinions. Also, the Israeli educational system forced the offspring of Arab-Jewish families to accept the Holocaust as their own – sometimes, I can add, as their sole – history and decisive marker of identity. "Israel and India, Zionism and Hindutva - [Alternatives International]
"To wit, connect the Dalit upsurge in India to the solidarity movement for Palestine. Racism must be understood in broader terms as encompassing various forms of exclusionist ideologies founded not just on biologically or physically determined markers, but also on cultural ones. Thus cultural identity markers, when used for the purposes of institutionalized discrimination, are also to be seen as forms of racist injustice. Both casteism and Zionism come into this category of culturally based discriminations. You do not have to be a Palestinian to empathize with the Palestinian cause. Palestinians are fighting for much more than just their national liberation; they are fighting for progressives everywhere."
hawgblawg: Some Myths and Misconceptions about Rai Music (Part One)
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
