the atwood-ghosh dan david disgrace

"Atwood is supposedly a feminist writer. (Helena Cobban notes, however: “all of her novels are about women trapped in helplessness.”) I wonder what Atwood would say to the struggling women of Palestine – the poets, journalists, protestors, stone throwers, organisers, the widows and bereaved mothers – were she to meet them. But she won’t meet them. They aren’t sipping wine at the Tel Aviv reception; they are locked up in their ghettoes and mourning their dead." This article is one of the best on the Atwood and Ghosh receiving Dan David prize at Tel Aviv University.

black clouds

Black clouds were looming over London yesterday after David Cameron became PM. Let me summarize to you the themes this man will be working: When he said that the country was open at home, he was speaking about the racism to migrants (and racism to migrants is not new in this country, from the Irish workers, to the Polish workers to the Muslims that Mr Cameron and his friends think are invading Europe) and oppression of the working class. When he was speaking about compassion outisde the country: he was speaking about his army colonizing others. The social problems he is concerned about are the migrants. He wants to build a more responsible society here in Britain by granting the right to caste stones at the migrants and the Muslims. He wants to take care of the poor by making them poorer. His governemnt will be built on some clear values: values of oppression, values of social injustice, values of stone throwing on the migrants and excruciating living conditions for workers... and most importantly he wants to build a strong society with stronger homophobia. "Rebuilding family, rebuilding community, above all rebuilding responsibility", remember Thatcher and the mine workers? It's happening again, this time as farce.

liberal democrats in the UK

"This ruling class party presided over many of history’s great outrages, from the First World War to the partition of Ireland."

and they thought an iron wall could stop them

Workers in Gaza break through the iron wall of shame that Mubarak and Alazhar built.

UC, san diego joins in!

University of California, San Diego support the UC, Berkeley BDS move, and they follow their peers' track!

comrades at manchester uni. block israeli diplomat from lecture

Our comrades at Manchester block this Israeli diplomat from her lecture. Those who support war crimes should be not welcome!

why i don't like anthropology

It once was and always will be... colonial.
50 intellectuals write to Amitav Ghosh to cancel his visit to Tel Aviv University.

Palestine festival of literature 2010

A group of distinguished writers and poets including Suheir Hammad and Ahdaf Soueif, will be part of the PalFest2010 and it will be aired on Aljazeera live on the 6th of May at 17:00 Jerusalem time. Comrades in Gaza will be linked through video conference.

"on the apartheid nature of Israel, Matzpen, and the contradicitons of the Zionist left"

"What I would like to emphasize here, because it has implications for the present, is the role that left Zionist intellectuals, academics and publicists had – and still have today - in articulating the main narrative of Zionism and legitimizing the Zionist colonial project"

the disruptions continue

Activists in Boston disrupt this Israeli funded event at a science museum: "Protesters targeted IIW because it was part of a state-sponsored campaign to “greenwash” Israel’s discriminatory, apartheid regime and atrocious human rights record."

lebanese racism: the monstrous killing of an egyptian worker

Ilyas Khouri comments on what happened to Moh'd Sleem, a worker from Egypt, who was beaten to death in the Lebanese village Katrmaya. Mohmmad was accused of killing an elderly man and woman and their two grandchildren in the Katrmaya. While the Lebanese security men took him into custody and later brought him the the victims' house to re-act the crime and "the villagers rushed out and snatched him away from the police. They hit, stepped on, and kicked him, but they did not get enough so they followed him to the Sibleen Hospital where he was unconscious and forcefully took him away and removed his clothes, and continued beating him to death. They threw his body in the village square before hanging it on the electricity pole where people took memorable photos of the corpse with their cellular phones." (my translation of a paragraph from Khouri's article)

moh'd iskandar: a sexist and proud

Lebanese singer Moh's Iskandar sings a song where he tells his woman lover to go back to the house and stop working because he is jealous from other men looking at her. Not only is this song sexist, and chauvinistic to no limit, but it is also proud of it! Some women and men demonstrate in Lebanon against this nauseating song and the likes of it.
This is the f***ing nauseating song.