NM's blog

“Antisemitism and Islamophobia do not compete for a fixed ration of public sympathy.  They are the one prejudice in two coats. Each rests on the same premise that a minority may be judged and feared and shut out for its religion. “Israel’s "Ministry of Subversion" now sits closer to an illiberal, nationalist Europe than to the liberal order that once made Jewish life in the diaspora secure.” Would Andreas Krieg argue that the very same 'liberal order' has made Muslims, Jews and others insecure with its double standards, wars, invasions, hypocrisy, institutional racism, marginalisation, obscene inequality, and because of the very same order that the far right is on the rise …? I doubt it. I emailed him for an answer. 

Equating the bombers with the bombed, lending cover to Western imperialism

The genocide was committed primarily against Bosnian Muslims , who are ethnically known as  Bosniaks . The targeted campaign aimed to permanently remove Bosniaks from specific territories to create a contiguous, ethnically homogeneous Serb state. The broader war in Bosnia involved a campaign known as  ethnic cleansing . While Bosnian Croats were also targeted and displaced by Bosnian Serb forces in certain areas, the overwhelming majority of the victims of systematic slaughter, concentration camps (such as Omarska and Keraterm), and the longest siege in modern history (the Siege of Sarajevo) were Bosniaks. According to demographic data compiled by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and research institutes,  Bosniaks made up over 80% of all civilian casualties  during the Bosnian War, despite constituting roughly 44% of the pre-war population. The Target Demographic Ethnic and Religious Identity:  While the conflict is often desc...

Although Vincent Smith was not the most distinguished imperial historian of India, he was probably the most widely known in India because of the success of his textbooks on Indian history. In 1919, Smith published a rejoinder to the Montagu-Chelmsford constitutional proposals seeking to placate nationalist demands by conceding a certain measure of “responsible government” to Indians. The proposals, Smith said, were based on two propositions: “(1) that a policy, assumed to have been successful in Western communities,  can  be applied to India; and (2) that such a policy  ought  to be applied to India, even at the request of an admittedly small body of Indians, because Englishmen believe it to be intrinsically the best. 5 His argument was that both propositions were false. The policy of responsible and democratic government, “supposed to be of universal application,” could not be applied to India because it went against “a deep stream of Indian tradition which has bee...