Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
…asks Benjamin Weinthal. Photos of the “Berlin against Hamas” counterdemonstration here.
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Tags: Benjamin Weinthal, Berlin Against Hamas, Hamas
Left/right convergence in France
Several items from Tendance Coatesy, on the Voltaire Network, on the French far right’s links to Putinism, and on Godard’s fascist turn. 1. On Franklin Lamb and France’s Assad supporters: Counterpunch has published some well-informed reports on the unfolding civil war in Iraq, notably by Patrick Cockburn. The same cannot be said for the latest piece by […]
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Tags: Aleksandr Dugin, Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin, Ataka, Aymeric Chauprad, Counterpunch, Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections, Franklin Lamb, Front National, Heinz-Christian Strache, Jean-Luc Godard, Konstantin Malofeev, Marine Le Pen, Parti Anti Sioniste, Parti communautaire national-européen, Rassemblement Bleu Marine, Réseau Voltaire, russia, Syria, Thierry Meyssan, Volen Siderov, Voltaire Network
From Mystical Politics: Wawrzyn, Heidemarie: Nazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948 Co-published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press and De Gruyter for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Young Germans marched through Haifa shouting “Heil Hitler!” and Swastika flags were hoisted at the German consulates in Mandatory Palestine. It was in November […]
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Tags: Heidemarie Wawrzyn, Mandate Palestine, Nazis, Palästina-Deutsche, Palestine, Temple Society
Middle Eastern anarchism
[adapted from a post at Poumista] Two interesting items: The colour brown: de-colonising anarchism and challenging white hegemony by Budour Hassa in Random Shelling. Extract: The appearance of the Egyptian Black Bloc in Cairo’s streets in January 2013 triggered gullible excitement in Western anarchist circles. Little thought was given to the Egyptian Black Bloc’s political vision – or lack […]
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Tags: anarchism, Black bloc, Cairo, Egypt, Palestine, Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square graffiti
The revolutionary graffiti is being cleansed from Tahrir Square. Here are some glimpses of what’s there, from Homsi Anarchist: Homsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist A.C.A.B #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/ABNRoITa 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/0E1I14WZ 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist “Pigs” #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/83BMx4JG 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist @ingili3 hahhaa the term goes way back according to herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police-related_slang_terms … 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist “Resist the oppressor” #Tahrir #Graffiti pic.twitter.com/6lCtZtdI 19 SepHomsi Anarchist @HomsiAnarchist To the State: […]
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Tags: 2011 Egyptian revolution, Egypt, graffiti, Tahrir Square
From Tendance Coates, with apologies for some added hyperlinks and gently corrected typos: Counterpunch’s friend Israël Adam Shamir does not only write about Dreyfus on Entre la Plume et l’Enclume (between the Pen and the Anvil). He, for example, wrote a vibrant defence of Gilad Atzmon on the same site earlier this year […] calling him “un volcan vivant, un titan pourvu d’un sens de […]
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Tags: Ahmed Moualek, Alain Soral, Alexander Cockburn, Anti-imperialism, Égalité & Réconciliation, Centre Zahra, Counterpunch, Dieudonné, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Entre la Plume et l’Enclume, France, Gilad Atzmon, Ginette Skandrani, holocaust denial, Hussein Triki, Israël Adam Shamir, Israel Shamir, La Banlieue S’exprime, Le Mouvement des damnés, María Poumier, new right, Nouvelle Droite, Parti antisioniste, Raba Serbout, Réseau Voltaire, Robert Faurisson, Roger Garauday, Samya Ayari, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, Syria, Yahia Gouasmi
Eric Lee, veteran leftist, writes in his blog and in Solidarity: This may be news to some, but what is today commonplace was once quite rare. I’m referring to anti-Semitism on the far Left — and am reminded of what some of us saw as a turning point back in 1972. For a quarter of a […]
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Tags: anti-zionism, antisemitism, Black September, Israel, Munich, munich 1972, Munich hostage crisis, Munich Olympics, Olympics, One Day in September, Palestine, Socialist Workers Party, The Militant, Young Socialist Alliance
By The Soupy One: I had not heard of Moshe Siman until I read Mystical Politics’ account of his protest. When reading that what struck me was, how little we hear of the real Israelis’ struggles in the Western media. Contrast that with the excellent coverage of Greece, the Banks, the economy and more importantly […]
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Tags: Israel, J14, Moshe Siman, social justice
Coatesy reports on the “anti-imperialist” alliance between sections of the French far-right and the Assad regime in Syria.
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Tags: Frédéric Chatillon, Front Nationale, Marine Le Pen, Syria
Anti-National Translation 