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  • Israel exerts great power to foil attempts to label it an apartheid state, since the term ‘apartheid’ goes hand in hand with boycott – and what can you do against Miguel from Barcelona who calls on Lio Messi to cancel the Argentina-Israel match. One of the difficulties which Israeli Hasbara is facing is that the boycott movement has a long history to lean on: Boycott campaigns in America or Mahatma Gandhi’s boycott calls to buy Indian products and boycott English ones. He believed passive resistance would sway public opinion towards support for the liberation of India. The boycott on South Africa is the most recent successful boycott example. This campaign, along with other factors, brought about the dismantling of the apartheid regime. In a boycott movement, power lies with private individuals and their world of mental associations. This is a detour around Shabak or Mossad, and therefore Israel has no way to control the movement. Israel can hardly gain anything from implanting collaborators in a boycott group. A private individual can start a petition calling on Lorde not to play in Israel, people all over the world can sign and Lorde will cancel. Israeli Hasbara goes berserk, a full-page ad is published on the Washington Post and New Zealand as a whole comes under a general attack.

BOYCOTT: Read the rest of the opinion piece by Israeli psychoanalyst Iris Hefets who writes about the logic and psychology of a boycott of Israel. Link to article in our bio.

Photo: Workers Eamon O’Donoghue, Mary Manning, Catherine O’Reilly and Nicky Kelly – Dunnes Stores workers against South Africa’s apartheid regime, Ireland, 1985

#turbantimes #israel #palestine #bds #occupation #middleeast #boycott #lorde #shakira #messi
  • Taha lashed out against France’s blatant racism and the exploitation of North African immigrants while critiquing those very immigrants as slaves of tradition—both musically and politically. He combined playfulness with rage, never confusing memory with nostalgia (he once said, “I’m a little melancholic, but never nostalgic”). He juxtaposed the dormant, fixed ideals of daily life with the rhythms and raucousness found in Maghrebian celebrations.

This is Rachid Taha as he should be remembered: a postcolonial figure.

RACHID TAHA: A symbol of Algerian resistance and postcolonial legacy. Link to article in our bio! ✍🏽 by Hind Berji.

Photo: Stuart Madeley (2013) 
#turbantimes #maghreb #rachidtaha #taha #northafrica #algeria #maghrebi #rai #music #arab #arabmusic #france #middleeast #postcolonial #rachid
  • On December 12th, The Turban Times and @nasimngo hosted historian Lior B. Sternfeld in #Copenhagen for a talk on his research in the Jews of #Iran – who today make up the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of #Israel – and his new book “Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran”. Sternfeld's lecture (and the following Q&A session) is now available online (link in our bio). #turbantimes #jewishhistory #middleeast #iranianhistory #persianhistory #islam #judaism #communism #zionism #zion #mena #religion #minorities #religiousminorities #sternfeld #academia #ucph #kualiv #media #journalism #tehran #iranianjews #persianjews
  • "From #Ferguson to #Palestine, the struggle for freedom continues." American academic and activist Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill – former political commentator for CNN – joined the 2015 solidarity demonstration in #Nazareth by African-American activists in support of Palestinian rights and #BDS, coordinated by the co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter.

Hill, who has long been a vocal supporter of Palestinian rights, was fired by #CNN in November following his speech before the U.N. where he spoke in support of Palestinian self-determination and equal rights and called for the international community to boycott #Israel. His remark 'from the river to the sea' sparked controversy, with some deeming it 'anti-Semitic'. CNN's choice of firing Hill received much criticism – among these Jerusalem-born human rights activist Danielle Alma Ravitzki, who in her opinion piece for The Turban Times writes:

Conflating every criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism is another form of language dehumanization. Here again, it is important to see that the Zionist propaganda campaign controls not only people and principals, but also language.

When Israel is concerned, many top media platforms, including CNN, seem to be blindly misled to consider a legitimate criticism as inappropriate. Haunted by the shadow of the Holocaust, and feelings of guilt perhaps, people still operate out of some sense of responsibility for what had transpired in WWII, and avoid a scenario where they may be construed as anti-Semitic. They do not see that the tables have turned, and by supporting Israel now, or refraining from criticizing it, they are in fact conceding to the human rights violations it is committing against Palestinians.

Read Ravitzki's full entry (link in our bio) and let us know what you think.

#turbantimes #palestine #middleeast #blm #us #usa #america #activism #palestinians
  • With no long-term plan in place for dealing with the country’s waste problems, the Lebanese government is instead kicking the can on the issue with major consequences for the environment and citizens of the country to follow.

Read our latest – link in our bio! 📸: Anne Kirstine Rønn/The Turban Times.

#TurbanTimes #YouStink #StopThem #Lebanon #Beirut #MiddleEast #Activism #Society #MENA
  • Jewish presence in North Africa and the Middle East date back hundreds, even thousands, of years. Yet, these otherwise long, rich, and complex parts of history are very often reduced into either simplistic, narrow depictions of isolation, discrimination, and expulsion, or romanticizing tales of multicultural utopias.

Jewish-Iranian history is no exception here.

Zooming in on the eventful 20th century, historian Lior B. Sternfeld challenges in his new book “Between Iran and Zion: Jewish Histories of Twentieth-Century Iran” the dominating narratives on Jewish histories in the MENA region and looks critically at previous research in Jewish-Iranian history.

As part of the event series “Jews in the Middle East”, The Turban Times and NASIM are hosting Lior B. Sternfeld this Wednesday at the University of Copenhagen for a talk on his research in the Jews of Iran – who today make up the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel.

If you’re in Copenhagen, don’t miss it! Full-length recording will be uploaded, for those not able to attend.

Find out more via bit.ly/IRANZIONKBH

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