There are definitely – there is definitely an element of Donald Trump’s support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
On December 8, 2023, the Israeli army invaded my family’s neighborhood in northern Gaza, with the sound of shells and the drone of aircraft overhead. Soldiers forced us to raise our hands and separated us by gender. Men, including my father, were ordered to strip and taken for interrogation. A military dog blocked my path as we were being forced out of our house. My father was interrogated and then released, and we left together as a family. We ran through the cold, rainy night, our minds on survival.
That same week, our neighbor Abu Salim was killed by a drone missile, and the Al-Nakhala family’s house was set on fire while they were inside. When I later searched for any news from our neighborhood, I found nothing. I knew I had to record what I witnessed—if I did not, who would tell the world?
... full articleWhatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
When police arrested Kimberlee Williams, a grandmother living in Oklahoma, because of a warrant from Maryland, she was shocked. She had never been to Maryland in her life.
Ms. Williams later learned that Maryland police had relied on an incorrect result from facial recognition technology that falsely flagged her as a suspect. She is the fourteenth person in the U.S. to join a growing list of people wrongfully arrested because police let flawed facial recognition technology taint their investigations.
... full articleWe show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of office, there will still be all those things here.
On the evening of 6 April, Asef, 65, and other members of Tehran’s Jewish community braved the US-Israeli bombing campaign to celebrate an evening Passover service at the Rafi’ Nia synagogue in the centre of the Iranian capital.
Inside the dim hall, lined with Persian carpets and mint green curtains, Torah verses were recited and prayers murmured under the breath. Asef, his shirt neatly tucked into his trousers and a kippah on his head, sat among the men, while the women sat separately on the other side. The atmosphere was reverent but subdued.
... full articleAll classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport — in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
Cantó, bailó, lloró, rio… En Tierra Santa, en apenas tres días, y durante los festejos por el Día de la Independencia, Javier Milei (foto, con Netanyahu) vivió un cúmulo desenfrenado de sentimientos y emociones.
En el medio, el presidente argentino se definió nuevamente como uno de los principales aliados de Benjamin Netanyahu, volvió a insertar a Argentina en un conflicto absolutamente inconveniente y que ya generó dos atentados terroristas en su historia reciente y, desde un argumento mesiánico y cultural antes que político, señaló a Irán como un enemigo al que resulta imperioso derrotar. Poco faltó para calificar a la iraní como una civilización a la que se debía eliminar, como lo expresó Donald Trump en el punto álgido de la guerra en Medio Oriente.
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