Of Occupation, Resistance and Music: An Appeal
We submit that it is incumbent upon the people of Germany to put pressure on the German Embassy to immediately recognize the reality, the horrifying context, within which this proposed concert is to...
View ArticleThe Eerie NGO Phenomenon in Kashmir
"Conflicts have always allowed very suitable ecosystems for Non Governmental Organisations or NGOs to flourish in. Embroiled with armed insurgency for about two decades now, Kashmir has attracted a...
View ArticleFree Kashmiri Political Prisoners, End the Occupation of Kashmir
We send you this request in hopes of garnering your crucial and valuable support for the letter attached below. This letter is a response to the dire conditions of thousands of Kashmiri political...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE from Free Kashmiri Political Prisoners Campaign
Free Kashmiri Political Prisoners, an online campaign to release Kashmiri political prisoners from various Indian jails, has attracted endorsement and support from academics, intellectuals and...
View ArticleTime to Act: End Sexual Violence as War Weapon and End Impunity to Indian...
As the world looks to the Global Summit on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict as a 'pioneering' movement, we must speak against rape as a weapon of war in Kashmir, and foreground the survivors whose...
View ArticleVoices from North Waziristan
Mahvish Ahmad of the indispensable Tanqeed interviews refugees in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, displaced from North Waziristan after the launch of the Pakistani Army’s Operation Zarb-e-Azb. Note that...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Genocide: The Case of Palestine
… declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 that genocide is a crime under international law… Article II: In the present Convention,...
View ArticleA Letter To The Arabs
According to TV sources, the child was killed shortly after the video was uploaded. A Letter To The Arabs We are doing fine in Gaza,Tell us how are YOU doing?We are doing fine in Gaza,What about...
View ArticleWhat Price Assad’s Rehabilitation?
Bente Scheller, Middle East Director of Heinrich Böll Stiftung and author of the excellent The Wisdom of Syria’s Waiting Game: Foreign Policy Under the Assads, asks if the West is prepared to pay the...
View ArticleLet’s Talk About Genocide: Shurat HaDin and The Genocide Legalization Conference
This week, the organization Shurat HaDin is having a conference titled “Towards a New Law of War”. They don’t hide where their alliances lie, and on their online conference page (nostalgically...
View ArticleRussia Today and the post-truth virus
A video is circulating of a woman revealing “the truth” on Syria that is being withheld from us by “the mainstream media”. The woman is introduced as an “independent Canadian journalist”. She is said...
View ArticleCombating Al-Qaeda in Syria
Leading experts on Syria discuss strategies for combating ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria
View ArticleTrump’s new war plan is an awful lot like the old one
The Trump administration has a new plan for the war in Syria, Spencer Ackerman reports for The Daily Beast, and it’s the same as the old one: bomb the hell out of the Islamic State and other extremists...
View ArticleOf Monsters and Men
This is my review of Yassin al Haj Saleh’s book The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy. It first appeared in The New Arab. Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution over six...
View ArticleA Critique of Subaltern Studies and Appropriative Solidarity: A Response to...
by Pothik Ghosh A sharply combative polemic that hits the nail on the head and which must, for that reason, be hailed. However, I doubt that Chatterjee’s response, if at all he deigns to come up with...
View ArticleKashmir Under Indian Settler-Colonialism in The Times of Covid: Myriad Ways...
By Huma Dar July 3, 2021 Official figures rank India as second only to the United States at 30.50 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 401,050 deaths, with a mere 3.9% rate of full vaccination as of...
View ArticleDismantling Hindutva with Islamophobia?
The so-called radicality of this Conference did nothing but further contribute to the erasure of Indian Muslims and Indian brand of anti-Muslimness. It carried out Hindutva’s goal. Genocide of Muslims...
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