Solidarity is a practice of connections. We should call for justice in Gaza, but also Balochistan and Waziristan.
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Posts Tagged ‘ palestine ’
The Practice of International Solidarity
Issue III: Solidarity Politics
From Bara to Quetta to Palestine, we consider solidarity politics this month.
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On Not Speaking of Palestine
English | اردو What shocked me was something I had not anticipated: the latent and sometimes overt hostility to Palestine solidarity and sympathy for Zionist propaganda. In 2009, I moved to Lahore for a year. It was my first visit ever to Pakistan, and to the city where my father was born, and from where my...
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On the Colony and Post-Colony
English | اردو Pakistan and Palestine have more in common than some in Pakistan care to recognize. Whenever I visit the United States, I find that Americans often mix-up Palestine and Pakistan. Their stupidity and inability to differentiate between the two countries is characteristic of what Edward Said defined as Orientalism: “they” all look the same,...
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A New Humanism
English | اردو What motivates the desire for Third World solidarity is the shared history of oppression by a common oppressor. In 2009, a few academics, supported by long standing left-wing activists, founded Pakistanis for Palestine, a Lahore based group that aimed to support Palestinians in their struggle for statehood. Critics—which include Pakistanis—of course, wonder why,...
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