Injustice provides hollow foundations for the establishment of a state. Israel has always had the choice to pursue peaceful, social and economic pathways to live in some kind of amity with those they had dispossessed, no matter how contentious, bitter or complex the process. Israel could have chosen to engage in bridge-building, conciliation, compromise, co-existence, […]
colonialism
“Nowhere Safe & Hospitals are a Warzone”
I do not believe in violence. Not as an instrument of justice, nor as a form of strength. Violence has plagued our planet for centuries and created every ill known to humanity: generational suffering, enmity, torture, hostility, racism, poverty, death, destruction, hunger, starvation, disease, homelessness, refugeehood and much more. Violence is not based on reason […]
The Last Prince of Bengal
Everyone’s digging up the past. From the tv series Who Do You Think You Are to the booming business being done by ancestry and heritage companies, uncovering family history has become a serious social trend. Could it be we have a profound, visceral need to know our family’s past, the twists and turns of family […]
Udham Singh and the Fight for Freedom
Introduction: This is a far longer post than I normally write. I wanted to mark the anniversary of Udham Singh’s execution at Pentonville Prison, but as I’d already written a post on him last year, Udham Singh, The Lonely Revolutionary, this year I decided to place him within the revolutionary struggle forming the turbulent landscape […]