CC Newsletter 06 Feb - Amnesty International Calling Israel an Apartheid State shakes the Zionist state

 

Dear Friend,

Amnesty International’s declaration of Israel as an apartheid state was a resounding announcement that resonated worldwide. The importance of this announcement is that it came from an organization with a respected reputation globally. Amnesty international has human rights lawyers who study every word before publishing the report.

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Amnesty International Calling Israel an Apartheid State shakes the Zionist state

by Dr Salim Nazzal

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/the-report-that-shakes-the-zionist-state/

Amnesty International’s declaration of Israel as an apartheid state was a

resounding announcement that resonated worldwide. The importance of this announcement is that it came from an organization with a respected reputation globally. Amnesty international has human rights lawyers who study every word before publishing the report.

Amnesty’s Israeli Apartheid Report Versus Zionist, IHRA & US Lies

by Dr Gideon Polya

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/amnestys-israeli-apartheid-report-versus-zionist-ihra-us-lies/

Amnesty International’s 2022 report exposing and condemning Israeli apartheid has provoked false allegations of lying and anti-Semitism from the mendacious and  genocidally racist Zionists and their US Alliance supporters.  In actuality, denial of Israeli apartheid is a lie, and the Zionists and their supporters  are manifestly mendacious, and both  anti-Arab anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish anti-Semitic by falsely defaming anti-racist Jewish, Arab, Palestinian and Muslim critics of Apartheid Israel.

The Curious Case of the State of Israel

– A Country Without Borders

by Anthony Fulton

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/the-curious-case-of-the-state-of-israel-a-country-without-borders/

If Israel is perceived as an apartheid state, then there is a link to this frontierism, to choices made by Israeli voters regarding borders. You can’t defend Israel against such accusations if you do not consider the West Bank to be ‘abroad’. The evidence of the last fifty years suggests that Israel is a frontier settler state set on expansion beyond ‘indefensible’ pre-1967 borders. How long can Palestinians live within these frontiers without rights? The international community and many Israeli citizens seem happy to avoid the question.

Hemispheric Gangsterism: The US Embargo Against Cuba Turns 60

by Dr Binoy Kampmark

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/hemispheric-gangsterism-the-us-embargo-against-cuba-turns-60/

It all seems worn, part of an aspic approach to foreign policy.  But US President Joe Biden is keen to

ensure that old, and lingering mistakes, retain their flavour.    Towards Cuba, it is now 60 years since President John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Proclamation 3447 imposed an embargo on all trade with the island state.

Covid Mandate Protests: ‘Freedom Convoy’ Blockades Leave Ottawa On Edge

by Countercurrents Collective

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/covid-mandate-protests-freedom-convoy-blockades-leave-ottawa-on-edge/

Canada’s capital Ottawa on Saturday was bracing for a surge of demonstrators to join a week-long protest against public health measures and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that has blockaded much of the downtown core, unnerved residents and been described by officials as an “occupation” and a “siege.”

Russia – China pledge to expand cooperation

Press Release

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/russia-china-pledge-to-expand-cooperation/

Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International

Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development

Signature Campaign: Citizens Demand Repeal of Anti-Conversion Laws in India

by Concerned Citizens

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/signature-campaign-citizens-demand-repeal-of-anti-conversion-laws-in-india/

We, the citizens of secular and democratic India, are shocked to witness the , moves of the state governments ruled by the BJP and other political parties, targeting Christians, Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis and Hindu women using Anti-Conversion Laws in India.

Shopping Mall or Shocking Mall

by Moumita Alam

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/shopping-mall-or-shocking-mall/

Eight farmers have taken their own lives.

The dead certificate is very crystal clear.

It’s suicide not murder.

The potatoes they had to sell

In zero profit

Are in shopping trolley now

With a tip – top price tag.

Rahul Gandhi and Our Constitution

by Hiren Gohain

https://countercurrents.org/2022/02/rahul-gandhi-and-our-constitution/

The initial remarks in Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Parliament the motion of thanks to the President’s speech have provoked a storm of abuse from BJP ranks within and outside the house.The matter needs some scrutiny

CC Newsletter 26 Dec - No Need for Anti-Conversion Law

 

Dear Friend,

A compilation of legal provisions which are on the statute books and give the lie to the argument that the proposed anti-conversion law in Karnataka is filling a much needed legal gap. A perusal of these provisions will indicate that there is no need for an anti-conversion law to cover the use of force and fraud and that the real purpose of the proposed law is to target the constitutional right to profess and practice faith of one’s choice.

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No Need for Anti-Conversion Law

by PUCL-Karnataka

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/no-need-for-anti-conversion-law/

This is a preliminary compilation of legal provisions which are on the statute books and give the lie to the argument that the proposed anti-conversion law in Karnataka is filling a much needed legal gap. A perusal of these provisions will indicate that there is no need for an anti-conversion law to cover the use of force and fraud and that the real purpose of the proposed law is to target the constitutional right to profess and practice faith of one’s choice.

Growing Need for Unity of Social Movements

by Bharat Dogra

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/growing-need-for-unity-of-social-movements/

As the crises converge, there is a growing need for unity of

social movements

Christmas arrives in Saudi Arabia

by Dr James M Dorsey

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/christmas-arrives-in-saudi-arabia/

Long banned, Christmas has finally, at least tacitly, arrived in Saudi Arabia; just don’t use the name in marketing or be ostentatious about your tree.

Left-wing Victory in Chile

by Yanis Iqbal

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/left-wing-victory-in-chile/

The 2021 presidential election in Chile has resulted in the victory of the Left candidate Gabriel Boric. With nearly 56% of the vote, he has won by a margin of more than 10 percentage points – most presidents had hitherto secured only four or five point leads. In absolute terms, this is a record majority, with some 4.6 million votes cast for Boric, putting him almost 1 million votes ahead of the pro-Pinochet candidate, Juan Antonio Kast, who obtained 44%. These electoral outcomes were marked by political polarization.

Naked @ Work – the Neoliberal Workplace

By Thomas

Klikauer and Meg Young

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/naked-work-the-neoliberal-workplace/

It is no longer uncommon to hear people saying, I love my work. Is this just the latest stage of capitalism getting us to work harder so that someone else benefits? Historically, it all started when former peasants were – at times, with brutal force – converted into workers. It was the time when capitalism quite literally was Making the Working Class inside its Dark Satanic Mills.

India’s `Gestapo’  –  National Investigation Agency (NIA)

by Sumanta Banerjee

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/indias-gestapo-national-investigation-agency-nia/

India’s  counter  terrorism  task  force  NIA  (National  Investigation  Agency)  has  come  into  limelight  recently  –    but  for  the  wrong  reasons.    Neglecting  their  original  task  of  pursuing  serious  crimes  like    terrorism,  the  NIA  personnel  have    barked    up  the  wrong    tree.  Incapable  of  nabbing  the  real

terrorists,  they  are  trying  other  methods  to  justify  their  perpetuation  in    the  present  system.    They  have  picked  up    human  rights  activists,  political  opponents  of  the  current  regime,  and  other    dissidents,  and  branded  them  as  terrorists.

The Shudra/OBC Delhi Declaration

by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/the-shudra-obc-delhi-declaration/

On 21 December, 2021 a majorNational Shudra/OBC conclave took place in Delhi Talkatora stadium with hundreds of Shudra/OBC activists, intellectuals and political leaders across the parties, different universities and civil societal organizations gathered. They put out the first ever Shudra/OBC declaration, which has a historical significance for the nation

Poisoning people’s minds to ensure polarisation in the coming polls

by Vidya Bhushan Rawat

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/poisoning-peoples-minds-to-ensure-polarisation-in-the-coming-polls/

Uttarakhand is in the news

for all the wrong reasons at the moment. The video of a meeting of the so-called ‘dharmsansad’ in Hardwar have gone viral on social media where the speakers masquerading as leaders concerned for ‘Hindus’ have used absolutely filthy, gutter level, genocidal language against minorities particularly the Muslims

Vedicisation of India

by Dr. Y. Srinivasa Rao

https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/vedicisation-of-india/

The sole of the culture of majority resides in its purity. The cultural majority would be afraid of polluting its culture. But the flow of history, does not allow them to maintain such purity. They need compromise with purity to retain the reformed version of culture. When threatened with total extinction, they could hold to the reformed version and rebuild on it. Dayanada Saraswathi and M.K. Gandhi’s call for ‘Go Back Vedas’ was such call for rebuilding on the reformed version.