Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Polish women should to travel to Turkey, Tunisia, or Azerbaijan–countries with Muslim majority–to seek abortion.   Abortion: Ban on almost all terminations

Classism and accent prejudice in UK’s top universities

This is not surprising. Three years ago a YouGov poll showed that “the majority of the people” support the public running of some key sectors such as the railways, the mail service and the water companies.  Transport for Wales rail services to be nationalised Comments on the BBC Related Nationalisation vs privatisation

  In the briefing, Dr Ali said: "The problem with focusing on ethnicity as a risk factor is that it misses the very large number of non-ethnic minority groups, so whites basically, who also live in deprived areas and overcrowded housing and with high risk occupations." He added the whole population should have a "personalised risk assessment" rather than just targeting ethnic groups. "It doesn't make sense to put all ethnic minorities in the same basket as it doesn't make sense to put all whites in the same basket," he said.  On structural racism, he said he was not convinced by the narrative that racism played a part in coronavirus deaths. My comment: What about class then, Dr Ali? What about the overlap of class and racism?  If the whites also suffer from risk because of their class and social conditions they live, the non-whites, the working class, the poor, suffer from both racism and class oppression. Ethnic minority Covid risk ‘not explained

  Mr. Macron will deliver a solemn eulogy to Mr. Paty on Wednesday at the Sorbonne. He has already been hailed as a martyr of the French Republic. The emotion of thousands who turned out for him across France was real. A huge gathering at the Place de la Republique in Paris recalled the ones held after the attacks of 2015. But a few wondered about what had transpired in Mr. Paty’s class. “I feel like it’s very hard to use these cartoons for strictly educational purposes,” said Farhad Khosrokhavar, a sociologist at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS, in Paris. “Secularists think that it is their right, because of the law that allows blasphemy and any form of mockery of religion. But on the other hand, there is the feeling that in doing so, it is the Muslims who are despised, not the prophet,” he said. “By using cartoons to teach freedom of expression, we do not understand that we offend people,” Mr. Khosrokhavar said. “There are a thousand ways to express free

 After banning the use of anti-capitalist materials at schools, the move now is to make  teaching “white privilege” as an uncontested fact illegal

 “No piece of land is worth” I think that’s an underestimation of the role of property in conflicts whether between states or classes or among the marginalised. And the case of the Armenians, the Turkish genocide is in the collective memory. Enmity has a longer history in the “imagined community” than 30/40 years ago.