Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

I have put this interesting (and free book) in my reading list.

The Syria regime is “ filling the coffers of the State, making high-ranking members of the power structure even richer and preventing the return of the pariahs – political opponents, actual or alleged.” Systematic politico-financial purge

  The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

It is true that sections of the Western left either defended/justified/kept silent on the Syrian regime’s crimes. “But to millions who see the war as an intensification of a 75-year dispossession of Palestinians, and the 16-year siege of Gaza, it merely positions the writers as apologists for Israel’s unending war crimes .”

“I used to want peace. I don’t want peace anymore

Enduring entanglements

“ Subsidizing Apartheid : How the Canada Revenue Agency Contributes to Palestinian Dispossession”

A very belated report by Human Rights Watch. Let’s read it and see how much ‘antisemitism’ in it! “ Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has long guided government policy. In pursuit of this goal, authorities have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated Palestinians by virtue of their identity to varying degrees of intensity. In certain areas, as described in this report, these deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.” Israel called into account A Threshold Crossed :  Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution

  The Marginalised Redefine the Political

 The opium of the Palestinian people

Stone Men The Palestinians Who Built Israel

States are no different than warlords. Both seek to dominate, where the only difference is that the former maintains a false air of legitimacy by claiming the monopoly of violence, while the other's violence has not yet appropriated that perverse right. The so-called “general benevolence of democracy” ( De Waal, 2017 ) consequently reflects a testament to the need to placate a population so that it does not revolt against the status quo. Property is the mother of famine

The Israeli "Left" "The Zionist left has an almost genetic structural problem — the awful contradiction between the left and Zionism, certainly in the reality of the Zionist apartheid of 2018 and the deliberate blurring of the term Zionism. The Zionist left is trying as hard as it can to hide the contradiction, cover it up, blur it, repress and deny it – but it doesn’t have a chance. As long as it sticks to its Zionism and as long as that Zionism is by definition a non-egalitarian ideology, which deprives, dispossesses, evicts and occupies, grants privileges to only one part of the country’s residents and not the other – that left cannot be a left. It’s merely a softer, more moderate right, a more restrained and liberally-styled version of the nationalist right." — Gideon Levy on Haaretz

Dispossession and Discipline in Palestine and West Asia 

Property is the mother of famine: On dispossession, wages and the threat of hunger

Understanding the political economy of violence

Morocco: Despotism, neoliberalism and climate change

How Capitalism Endures

As Palestinians mourn their Nakba, the UK must acknowledge its responsibility