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The 2024 general election in India, spanning six weeks from April 19 to June 1, is poised to be the largest in history. Promising a continuation of his firebrand Hindu nationalism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a third consecutive term in office, while opposition parties try, seemingly in vain, to warn of the existential threat that Hindutva rule has on the democratic and secular character of the country. Unlike the previous high-turnout elections of 2014 and 2019, where Modi was first the anti-establishment challenger and then able to rouse anti-Pakistan sentiment after the 2019 Pulwama ...
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A recent UN investigation has determined that Israel has failed to provide evidence supporting its claim that employees of the United Nations Relief Work Agency (UNRWA) are members of Hamas and participated in the 7th October attack on Israel. In fact, the report concluded that UNRWA has one of the most robust systems in place within UN agencies to monitor and ensure employee neutrality, precisely because of the complex environment in which it works. In some ways, the report’s findings came as no surprise. Just four days after Israel made their dishonest allegations, SkyNews and others reveale...
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On Friday, the German police brutally cleared a pro-Palestinian protest camp outside the Reichstag, the Chancellery building in Berlin that was set up in early April. The Occupy Against Occupation protesters had been at the building, hosting readings, discussions, and workshops. These activities have angered Berlin’s pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian authorities. The crackdown followed almost daily incidents of harassment against activists at the Palestine solidarity protest camp near the Bundestag, the German parliament,of%20the%20Palestinian%20solidarity%20movement.). Here and there, activists we...
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The software engineering job offer I received from Google came at the perfect time. I was in my senior year of college, lacking confidence and riddled with anxiety. The email from Google in my inbox validated all the years I spent studying. The hard work I had put into sharpening my coding skills had paid off, and I felt elated. When I started working at Google in August 2022, I remember sending my parents photos of the office and cherishing their amazement. I remember bringing friends in to try the food and to experience an office that was famous for feeling like a college campus. I loved see...
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Earlier this year, during the Israeli army’s siege of Al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, two siblings – Rafif, 13, and Rafiq Doughnosh, 15 - were trapped inside. Both children were critically ill and suffering from severe injuries, as a result of an Israeli airstrike which had killed their mother and 10 other of their family members. The Israeli army forced the children, along with around 200 to 300 other patients, to stay together in one hospital section, with no medical care, limited food or water for several days. The brothers not only lost their family members and their limbs, but they wer...
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While Arabs nervously watched Iranian missiles fly over the Levant, the pro-Israel Twittersphere gazed over another, similarly provocative target: miniskirts in pre-revolution Iran. In typical tone-deaf fashion, the American and Israeli hasbara machine chose this moment to “show a leg” and flaunt an idealised, white-washed, and highly disingenuous image of Pehlavi-era Iran. White, liberal feminists were quick to jump on the bandwagon and soon pictures of Westernised Iranian women went viral. As usual, they told Iranian women what they’d lost and what they should do. "Western feminists only car...
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Step 1: Erase history. Bury any fair and accurate analysis of how today’s violence came to be.Step 2: Remove all context. Always depict Palestinians as the aggressors. Blame Palestinians for their own oppression.Step 3: Monopolise the media. Discredit Palestinians and normalise their exclusion – including by threatening, firing, or even killing them.Step 4: Dehumanise Palestinians. Use words that play into pre-existing anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim stereotypes.Step 5: Misinform the public with boldface lies.Step 6: Weaponise antisemitism. Accuse any Palestinian who tries to tell...
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Israel's occupation of Palestine and India's occupation of Kashmir are two blots on the international record. Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced millions more in what is now thelongest-continuous military occupation in modern history. Palestinians today suffer either a 17-year blockade, a brutal occupation, apartheid, or forced exile. As we speak, Israel carries out genocide in Gaza, with the population on the brink of famine. "One an expression of Western settler colonialism in the Middle East, the other a violent hangover of Britain’s Partition of India, the tw...
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As a British Muslim school teacher, I can't say I'm surprised about this week's court ruling. The decision to rule in favour of Michaela Community School’s banning of ‘prayer rituals’ – and its clear discrimination of Muslim students – is indicative of this country’s Muslim moral panic. In Britain, innocuous expressions of Muslim identity are now viewed as extreme and anti-British, including five minutes of private prayer at lunchtime. "Israel’s status as a Western ally and the last outpost of Western settler-colonialism in the Middle East has not only legitimised Islamophobia in the UK but ne...
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Exactly a year ago, my father Rached Ghannouchi, the speaker of Tunisia's elected parliament, was arrested at our home in Tunis, just as he was sitting down to break the Ramadan fast. The rule of law had already been eroded over the preceding year and a half since President Kais Saied's coup on July 25, 2021, when he unilaterally dissolved parliament, dismissed the government and gave himself near-absolute powers. After then suspending most of the constitution and ruling by decree, all that remained for Saied to do was to crush the opposition parties that refused to stand by while he dismantle...
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