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Bad behaviour certainly has its rewards. That is, at least, if you are among Lebanon’s political elite, who secured €1 billion in financial aid from the European Union last week. On May 2, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides announced the three-year assistance package at a joint press conference in Beirut with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati. Brussels framed it as a commitment to supporting Syrian refugees and “other vulnerable groups” in Lebanon, as well as an effort to curb irregular migration to Europe through strengthening Bei...
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This week Israel has seized control of the Rafah border crossing — Gazans only escape route — and rolled military tanks deep into the city, dressed in “obnoxious Israeli flags”. Yet another cycle of mass murder has begun in a city already populated by orphaned children living amongst mass graves. The violence is unspeakable, sending shock waves across the world. Students are building protest encampments and the UN Human Rights Council have issued fresh calls for an arms embargo. But is this enough? The movement for Palestinian justice is unrelenting in its pursuit of new strategies to target I...
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Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the protests on US campuses against his country’s attacks on Gaza, saying that they were “reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.” He was, apparently, comparing the protesters to the Nazi student groups that beat up Jewish students and faculty. That comparison dilutes the horror of Nazism by overlooking both the extent of the violence that Nazi students inflicted on anyone who was Jewish and their avowedly racist goal of purging the universities of all Jewish students and professors. They achieved that go...
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The prominent Irish authorBrendan Behan once described himself as a 'doctrinaire Republican', that being a staunch and unmoving Irish Republican, regardless of political reality or practicality. The description resonated with me as an Irish republican growing up in West Belfast — a stronghold of the political party Sinn Féin. The party's tight political and economic grip on West Belfast has manifested as a hangover from the control of the area once held by the Provisional IRA. It exists from a time and an experience that, for decades, has connected the consciousness of West Belfast to the stru...
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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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