Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Genocide in Libya The book specifically recovers the hidden history of the fascist Italian concentration camps in Libya.

“We coup whoever we wants,” says Elon Musk

Black Saudi on African Migration and Slavery

“Analysts have thus far tended to ignore those Arabs who support the political project in north and east Syria. Several observers have amplified the voices of those Arabs who are critical of it, perhaps because that narrative fits more easily into the simple trope of sectarianism.” Arabs Across Syria Join the Kurdish-Led Syrian Democratic Forces

As of 27 July 2020, UK tops the list of countries with the highest deaths per thousand people.

UK’s [the West’s] dance with the Kremlin comes home to roost

How calling someone a “class reductionist” became a lefty insult

  لا لتوظيف التسامح الديني كمطية  للتطبيع مع الكيان الصهيوني Using “religious tolerance” as a springboard to normalisation with the Israeli state

Consider this: what if the following comment from [Mark] Twain’s notebook appeared as a boxed quote in history textbooks? Patriotism “is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn’t a foot of land in the world which doesn’t represent the ousting and re-ousting of a long line of successive ‘owners’ who each in turn, as ‘patriots,’ with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of ‘robbers’ who came to steal it and  did —and became swelling-hearted patriots in  their  turn.” What if teachers asked students to write essays agreeing or disagreeing with this idea in high school? Or what if the final exam required students to respond to a comment Twain made in the  North American Review  five years before his death—“the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it”? Mark Twain’s Inconvenient Truths Related: Censoring Mark Twain’s...

The Ministry of Health: your son died of coronavirus. The family of the deceased: no, he died of a heart attack. The Ministry: And what was the cause of the heart attack? The family: he accumulated too much debt. The Ministry: Why did he get so much in debt? The family: Because he was made unemployed. The Ministry: Why was he made unemployed? The family: Because of coronavirus. The Ministry: That’s what we’ve said! Translated from Moroccan Arabic. Source: Tarik Benziade on Facebook

How an armed group “polices” Black Lives Matter protests

When Neoliberalism Hijacked Human Rights

Racism in a country without race

Class and the Parable of an Environmental Victory

Hospitals may not cope

Covid-19 and the garment industry’s invisible hands

Twenty Years After Bashar Al-Asad’s Succession

Two main things are at stake if sourcing cotton from Xinjiang, China, would stop tomorrow: the fashion industrialists have to a find other suppliers of cotton at the same/similar price, for the rate of profit is key, and a risk that shops in the West and elsewhere would be unable to provide apparels at an affordable price for consumers. At the end of the day, this type of complicity has been going on for decades. “Virtually entire fashion industry complicit in Uighur forced labour”

Time is not on our side

Citizenship Test ‘misleading’ and ‘false’ on slavery I suggest the following question be added to the Test: The following is an account that took place in a British colony. When and where did it happen?  1. India between 1870-1876 2. Iraq between 1920-1922 3. Kenya between 1952-1956 "Interrogation under torture was widespread. Many of the men were anally raped, using knives, broken bottles, rifle barrels, snakes and scorpions. A favourite technique was to hold a man upside down, his head in a bucket of water, while sand was rammed into his rectum with a stick. Women were gang-raped by the guards. People were mauled by dogs and electrocuted. The British devised a special tool which they used for first crushing and then ripping off testicles. They used pliers to mutilate women’s breasts. They cut off inmates’ ears and fingers and gouged out their eyes. They dragged people behind Land Rovers until their bodies disintegrated. Men were rolled up in barbed wire and kicked aroun...