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The Rohingya: Southeast Asia’s Palestinians
The Rohingya and the Palestinian people have much in common: They have been persecuted, repeatedly displaced, denied citizenship and are now subjected to genocide, writes Nada Elia, a Diaspora Palestinian scholar, writer, public speaker and BDS organizer. Also see ‘USACBI condemns unequivocally the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya’. ____________ As they approach genocidal dimensions, […]
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Interview: Will Caron and Cynthia Franklin on Understanding the Boycott of Israel
An informative interview on ThinkTech Hawaii with Professor Cynthia Franklin, member of the USACBI Organizing Collective. Following is the transcript of the interview video clip (below) as posted on YouTube by ThinkTech on Aug 26, 2017 (originally posted with the title “Understanding the Boycott of Israel”). The video tape begins with a black screen […]
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Birds of a feather: White supremacy and Zionism
A Confederate flag appeared in an apartment window in Manhattan”s East Village in New York City last week, and the neighbours were outraged. A few pelted it with stones, calling it a hate crime. Many said it did not belong in such a diverse city. What few seem to have noticed is that the flag was raised right alongside […]
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On boycotts, Palestine, and resistance: a review of “˜Assuming Boycott’
BOOK REVIEW by Kim Jensen August 23, 2017 Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency, and Cultural Production Edited by Kareem Estefan, Carin Kuoni, and Laura Raicovich 272 pp. OR Books, 2017. $18. In the winter of 2012 the highly-acclaimed Mvskoke poet and musician Joy Harjo found herself at the center of an excruciating public fray. Despite direct appeals […]
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AUB Limited
By Steven Salaita August 21, 2017 Beirut has regained some of its pre-war glitter. Every month, it seems, a glossy magazine publishes a travelogue raving about the city”s restaurants, clubs, and beautiful citizens, inevitably followed by a barrage of indignant comments about how the writer visited all the wrong places. As in the past, what Beirut lacks in […]
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Charlottesville Through a Glass Darkly
By Richard Falk 08/18/2017 I suggest that Zionists fond of smearing critics of Israel as “anti-Semites” take a sobering look at the VICE news clip of the white nationalist torch march through the campus of the University of Virginia the night before the lethal riot in Charlottesville. In this central regard, anti-Semitism, and its links […]
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New network leads the fight against fascism on campus
By Nada Elia August 18, 2017 The signs were already all over the walls: hatred will be returning in force to campuses across the country this academic year, and will be packaged as “free speech.” The alt-right rally at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville may be seen as a defining moment for many, but any […]
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Racial supremacy and the Zionist exception
By David Lloyd August 15, 2017 Politicians from Senators Marco Rubio and Orrin Hatch to Chuck Schumer and Ron Wyden have been outspoken in their condemnation of Saturday”s Unite the Right March in Charlottesville and the vicious acts of terror it spawned. Criticizing Donald Trump for his reluctant and temporizing comments, they condemn the hate and […]
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What’s Behind the Explosions of Violence in Palestine? — The Destruction of Religious Sites and “Extrajudicial Executions” of Palestinian Teenagers
This article, by USACBI Organizing Collective member, Stanford professor David Palumbo-Liu, was published at the Huffington Post. It focuses on the systematic attacks on Palestinian youth and the drive to occupy and colonize Palestinian holy sites at the hands of the Israeli state: With this rash of summary executions of Palestinian youths, seemingly sanctioned by […]
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