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Britain Did Ban the Slave Trade, Mr Musk, but It Was 12.5m Slaves Too Late
In Britain slave owners were compensated for having slaves. But Britain was the biggest driver of the slave trade for over a century. The post Britain Did Ban the Slave Trade, Mr Musk, but It Was 12.5m Slaves Too Late first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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NEW: Portal for Tracking Genocidal Incitement Against Palestinians
For the last year, since October 7, Law For Palestine has been documenting genocidal incitement against Palestinians by Israeli government officials, military personnel, and public figures. We partnered with them to launch a new portal to house this crucial data, which they regularly update as a resource for legal action, advocacy, and ensuring justice for the […]
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Israel’s Enforced Disappearance of Palestinian Women from Gaza
Our latest visual captures the horrific testimonies of Palestinian women from Gaza who were arbitrarily detained and held incommunicado by Israel for more than 50 days, according to interviews by Amnesty International and the UN. Held hostage under the “Detention of Unlawful Combatants law,” which grants the Israeli military sweeping powers to detain anyone from […]
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At what point are we permitted to…?
Five questions, and a sixth: 1. At what point does it become irresponsible not to compare Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people with the genocide westerners know best: the Nazi Holocaust? 2. At what point does shielding Israel from the revulsion its actions naturally inspire not turn into complicity? 3. At what point should western […]
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The Zionist Hunters
The Nazi Hunters was a US television docu-drama miniseries in 2009, that described the exploits of Zionist (mostly Mossad) pursuers of Nazi criminals post-WWII. It was made into a film in 2022. We have all seen films and read books about Nazis and the holocaust. Sometimes they went too far, such as the fanciful stories […]
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We Must Oppose Israel’s Dangerous Gamble Before It’s Too Late
Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in history up to our necks,” he observed, yet we must wager that “words are more powerful than munitions.” “Leave or die” are the horrid words threatening largely unprotected Palestinian civilians in Gaza as […]
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Nothing’s changed since 1948 except now Israel’s excuses don’t work
The headline above, about yet another Israeli operation to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in the tiny, besieged and utterly destroyed enclave of Gaza, was published in yesterday’s Middle East Eye. When I began studying Israeli history more than a quarter of a century ago, people claiming to be experts proffered plenty of excuses to explain […]
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30 Days at Sde Teiman, Israel’s Torture Camp
I assure the children that Ahmad is fine, that he’s coming back soon, but to live through this war, the constant displacement, the bombing and also have to fight to know where your husband is, not to hear his voice, is like a war within the war. –Alaa Muhanna, interview with Amnesty International Horrific testimonies […]
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DINA: Pinochet’s Directorate for Murder and Torture
There are three sources of power in Chile: Pinochet, God and DINA. — Chilean intelligence officer, remarks to a US military attaché, 1974 Decree 521 of the Chilean government of June 18, 1974, was a chilling moment in the country’s convulsed history. With the state now in the pathologically disturbed hands of a military dictatorship […]
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