Tag: palestine
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Rang De Habibti*
On the night of the 27th of October, when Israel first imposed a communications blackout on Gaza, we made our way to an emergency protest near the Binnenhof in Den Haag (the so-called heart of Dutch democracy). I guess we were around fifty to sixty people there. Not many but still impressive for a hastily…
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Israeli Army: The most moral in the world says Netanyahu who is an honorable man
Americans, Europeans, WHITES, Lend me your ears I come to examine Israel and its army, not to bury it. The good, if any, that allies of the west do is glorified; The evil is oft ignored or forgotten; So let it be with Israel. The noble Netanyahu Hath told you Israeli Army is the most…
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Palestine and Sports: Is the Ali of the 60s back?
The Name is Muhammad Ali Mighty Whitey And imma whoop your ass, you hoity toity I’m for my blacks, my browns and my Chinese Who you bomb, maim and kill with glees And I will hold Hamas in condemnation, Only when you stop killing innocents And end your brutal occupation! (my take on what Ali…
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Mehdi Hasan and Glenn Greenwald – The “Sewer Rat” and the “Bristling Pig”? The Inevitable Case of those who have come after Chomsky, Finkelstein et al.?
When an old Tolstoy had fallen severely ill, the much younger Chekhov fearing for Tolstoy’s death, wrote to a friend: “Tolstoy takes a firm stand, he has an immense authority, and so long as he is alive, bad tastes in literature, vulgarity of every kind, insolent and lachrymose, all the bristling, exasperated vanities will be…
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Mandela and the Sisyphean quest for freedom!
It was a hot summer’s day. I remember standing in front of his cell in the Robben Island prison. He spent eighteen years of his life there. The cell was very small and a bucket had been provided to him for excrement. But this is not what moved me. What has stayed with me is the…
Realm of the SCENSCI 