Tag: genocide
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The World After Gaza: Seeds of Resistance, Hope in Ashes
Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza is a furious, wide-ranging meditation on the afterlives of the Shoah and the moral wreckage of selective remembrance. Moving from Holocaust history to Gaza and global protest, Mishra indicts Western media and political hypocrisy while asking what it means to live in a world that has normalized a hierarchy…
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The Stateless Rohingya and Buddhist Nationalism
The Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority in Myanmar, face severe displacement and violence, with over 700,000 fleeing to Bangladesh due to ethnic cleansing. Their statelessness results from a deliberate denial of citizenship, fueled by Buddhist nationalism and state policies.
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The Women Writing Gaza’s Truth
A book review of Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide, a searing, intimate testimony from four Palestinian women whose everyday worlds, from pregnancy, exams, olive harvests, weddings, are relentlessly invaded by bombs, famine, and displacement, yet remain defiantly human.
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China’s Occupation and Genocide of East Turkistan: Why the World Must Sustain Its Outcry
Uyghur-American advocate Aydin Anwar outlines the severe oppression faced by Uyghurs in East Turkistan, documenting personal experiences and historical context. It discusses the Chinese government’s systematic campaign of genocide, including mass internment, forced sterilization, and cultural erasure, while stressing the need for global awareness and action against these atrocities, which often goes unrecognized.
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When Muslim Blood Is Spilled and Holy Sites Desecrated, We Speak with Clarity
The article discusses the challenges faced by Muslim Palestinians in the West, particularly post-9/11, in articulating their oppression. It emphasizes the necessity of clarity in naming oppressors, specifically identifying Jewish supremacism as the ideological root of their struggles. The author argues that failing to name this ideology obscures the true nature of oppression and hampers…
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Code of Complicity: How the Tech Industry Enables Genocide and Silences Ethical Dissent
The author critiques the ethical implications of technology used in warfare, highlighting how AI systems facilitate violence in Gaza. It emphasizes the Islamic concept of wilāyah, urging tech professionals to recognize their moral responsibility. Companies suppress dissent from employees expressing solidarity with the oppressed, prioritizing profit over justice.
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Community Call-In: Gaza Genocide and the U.S. Election
This is a pre-brief and a summarized article, a precursor to a possible lengthy “Community Report” (CR) that I have undertaken (along with veteran observers) for the sake of sanity within our bruised and healing community. It acts as a ‘Call-In’ to community leaders, particularly scholars of theology and jurisprudence, to take-heed and address the…
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Notes on Synthetic-Lazarusian Kahanite Wombfare
The term “wombfare,” coined by international relations scholar Monica Toft, is a queasy but nevertheless accurate depiction of this ongoing struggle connecting the battle for reproductive-demographic supremacy to control of land, resources, and ultimately, sovereignty.
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Genocide in Palestine and Western Support
Raphael Lemkin (1900–59), a Polish-Jewish jurist, coined the term “genocide” and popularized it in a global context. International law clearly defines genocide in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948. The stages of genocide do not necessarily have to occur step-by-step. If some of these elements…