Archive for August, 2009
The “British method”
Following a political campaign by the BNP, a Muslim man was abducted from his home in Essex and threatened at knifepoint to stop organising weekly prayer sessions at the community centre.
Asked to response, local BNP councillor Pat Richardson denied the BNP was behind the attack, explaining:
“Firebombing is not a British method. A brick through the [...]
Filed under: UK | 5 Comments
Tags: BNP, fascists, Islamophobia, Nazis, Pat Richardson, Racism
‘Israel’s Terror Inside’
Latest mini-doc from Max Blumenthal, via lenin:
As Noam Chomsky has observed, and as this video makes clear, ‘those who call themselves “supporters of Israel” are in reality supporters of its moral degeneration and probable ultimate destruction’.
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 2 Comments
Tags: authoritarianism, Avigdor Lieberman, Cast Lead, Ezra Nawi, Gaza, Max Blumenthal, militarisation, New Profile, occupation, Racism
A culture of fear
Pankaj Mishra dissects the ‘culture of fear’ being manufactured by a recent spate of books and articles warning of an impending ‘Eurabia’:
‘Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not [...]
Filed under: European Union, UK | Leave a Comment
Tags: Christopher Caldwell, demography, Eurabia, Europe, immigration, Islamophobia, Lindsey German, Pankaj Mishra, Racism
Fighting the fash
Anti-fascist activists successfully confronted the BNP’s ‘Red, White and Blue’ hatefest [.pdf] (see also this Channel 4 report) in Codnor yesterday:
One of the favourite chants of the day was reportedly:
“We are black, white, Asian and we’re Jew / And they’re many, many more of us than you.”
Weyman Bennett of Unite Against [...]
Filed under: Activism, UK, Videos | 1 Comment
Tags: Activism, anti-fascism, Birmingham, BNP, Casuals United, English Defence League, fascism, protests, Racism, Unite Against Fascism
Former Israeli military commander Efran Efrati recently testified to the BBC that Palestinian children are ‘routinely ill-treated’ by Israeli soldiers:
“You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really shaking… Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the circulation.
“He doesn’t understand a word of what’s going on around him. He [...]
Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, Torture | 1 Comment
Tags: "only democracy in the Middle East", Breaking the Silence, Cast Lead, children, civil society, EU, Human Rights, New Profile, repression, Torture
Gaza Freedom March
For those who don’t know, Norman Finkelstein and others are organising a mass non-violent global march on Gaza to break the siege. Some updates:
- Gaza Freedom March website: http://www.gazafreedommarch.org/
- YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/GazaFreedomMarch
- A list of people who have endorsed the campaign:
http://www.gazafreedommarch.org/article.php?id=5032 (endorse it yourself here)
- Rough details of the march:
- Prior to Sunday, December 27, [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian, Videos | 1 Comment
Tags: Activism, blockade, Freedom March, Gaza, protest, siege, solidarity
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