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Items by Ronnie Kasrils
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Like the fabled phoenix, Gaza will rise from the ashes
The aerial bombardment of Gaza’s most crowded refugee camp, Jabaliya, yesterday piles another massacre on top of many others. It signified Israeli barbarism and fascist inability to understand the heroic human spirit to resist repression. History has shown that the bombing of civilians from the Basque town of Guernica...
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Defiant Gaza – The reasons for Resistance are clear
As astonishing as the break-out of the Gaza concentration camp has been, and ensuing attacks within Israel’s southern settler towns, seized from indigenous Palestinians in past ethnic cleansing, the reasons for the actions are clear for all with open minds and a sense of justice. Those Resistance fighters have...
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Palestine, Mon Amour
An evocative French film set in a Hiroshima destroyed by the United States atomic bomb in 1945 haunted me throughout the latest dreadful days of carnage in Gaza. I refer to the 1959 anti-war masterpiece Hiroshima Mon Amour. It resonates with the ethnic cleansing and incremental genocide of the...
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Nakba Day: Stop and Defeat Apartheid Israel
Nakba Day – 73 years since the onset of the ‘catastrophe’, with Apartheid Israel having believed Palestinian memories would fade away, has witnessed unity and courage of a people unbowed, relentlessly fighting for their land and rights, and resisting the last of the colonial monsters. As in all anti-colonial...
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Bending the Knee at Herzlia
I wish to express my support for the two students who refused to stand to attention as their school choir sang Hatikva – the Israeli national anthem. Instead, as the saying goes, “they took the knee” a perfectly peaceful expression of dissent popularised by American athletes. As has been reported...