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View More NewsOn Monday 26 June 2023, in a soulless corporate boardroom in Kensington, I listened to Israeli commentator Ehud Yaari deliver a lecture on shifting alliances and threats in the Middle East. As a twenty-year-old student activist, it was the first time I had heard of the Axis of Resistance, a network of Iran-aligned groups that included Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, the Assad regime in Syria, and the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) in Iraq. “Iran’s Quds Force, led by Qasem Soleimani, recognised that Arab attempts to destroy Israel since 1948…
from the unfun-twist-on-an-old-story dept This may not be an actual “Wyden siren,” but it still has his name attached to it. What’s being said here isn’t nearly as ominous as this single sentence he sent to CIA leadership earlier this year: I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities. Few people are capable of saying so much with so little. This one runs a bit longer, but it has implications that likely run deeper than the surface level issue raised by Wyden and others in…
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It is not normal to hear objections raised when universities award honorary doctoral degrees. The distinction, often conferred at happy graduation ceremonies, brings attention to exemplary achievement by the recipient. The aim is to nominate recipients who, in the tradition of the university, elevate all of us. This is true with academic recipients who represent the best of scholarly inquiry, but also with popular figures who represent universalist aspirations.Francesca Albanese has been the UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur for occupied Palestinian territories since 2022. In every medium, she leads the accusation that Israel has been committing genocide in the…
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