[Originally posted on the Institute for Social Ecology website.] The following reflection piece reflects the views of the signers and has not been endorsed by the Institute for Social Ecology as an organization. We are a group of leftist educators, scholars, and activists who support the Kurdish-led liberation struggle in …
As a follow-up to the last post, which was a public statement endorsed by over a hundred anti-imperialists, condemning the views of Gilad Atzmon, i am also re-posting this statement by 23 Palestinian activists, “Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon”. …
[This is a statement signed by almost one hundred anti-imperialists and organizations denouncing the Israeli-born jazz musician Gilad Atzmon for his antisemitism, and asking our fellow progressives to not promote him or his works. The list of endorsements included here is accurate as of March 9, 2012; an updated list …
The following from Gilbert Achcar: What pushes Arabs to deny the existence of the Holocaust? How and why does Israel continue to instrumentalize the memory of the destruction of European Jewry? What was the attitude of Arab intellectuals during the Second World War? Why does Ahmadinejad incessantly brandish the denial …
Yesterday’s article by Yves Engler on ZNet, about the way in which right-wing groups and the Canadian government use charges of anti-semitism to advance their own agenda: Which Canadians suffer more discrimination: Those of African descent, Muslims, Latin Americans, South Asians, East Asians, Arabs, First Nations or Jews? If you …
Immigrants are “buying their way in” to Quebec,Lise Provencher of St. JĂ©rĂ´me tells GĂ©rard Bouchard andCharles Taylor at hearings last night,and Jews are “trampolines of money in the world.” Well yeah timing is everything… i haven’t been blogging about the Bouchard-Taylor roving racist rendezvous, mainly because i thought i should …
Another notice i’m passing along. The pamphlet in question, a very accessible look at antisemitism and the radical left, is going to be one of the new titles in the upcoming Kersplebedeb catalog, so if you’d like a hardcopy you can get in touch.As some of you might know, i …
Azim Ibragimov, left, and Omar Bulphred face nine charges for carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in Montreal over the past six months i missed this news item when i was out of town last week: two men have been arrested for carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in Snowdon/Cote-des-Neiges area in Montreal. Here …
The revolutionary white right in North America is built on two beliefs: that white people form an objective biological group superior to all others, and that as a collectivity whites are in a state of perpetual competition with all others. The Hobbesian vision of nature, in which all are at …