GENERAL ELECTION: A JEWISH LEFTIST’S THOUGHTS

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged anti-semitism, austerity, bigotry, Britain, corbyn, discrimination, election, featured, ge2019, general election, hope, Jewish, Johnson, Labour, leftism, manifesto, perspective, racism, uk, vote.

by Tamar Moshkovitz

This was originally posted as a personal reflection, but the editorial team approached me after reading, and we thought it might find a different, perhaps wider audience on The Norwich Radical.

I’ve been finding it harder and harder to stay silent on the lead up to this general election. Not only because I feel that it’ll be a major defining moment in the history of the UK – which it will; for anyone who’s not registered to vote yet, please do so here – but because every time I think about saying what I think I get hopelessly tangled up in the mess of being both Jewish and a leftist.Continue Reading

CALL THEM BY THEIR NAME: CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged American justice system, AOC, CBP, children, concentration camps, deportation, featured, government, Holocaust, ice, Japanese, Jewish, Jews Against Ice, justice, law, Liz Cheney, Never Again, never again action, Neveragainmeans, Oklahoma, police, POW, prison, trafficking, trial, US, USA, violence.

by Tamar Moshkovitz

It’s hard to look at photos of the US Border Patrol Facilities and not be horrified. Cramped and overcrowded rooms, sometimes stuffed with double the maximum capacity; people confined for well over the allowed period; children separated from their parents and thrown in rooms with strangers. And this may not be the worse yet, as a Trump administration lawyer went viral when she argued that the government was not obligated to provide basic hygiene products and beds to immigrant children detained at these facilities.Continue Reading

WOW FESTIVAL LONDON 2018: PART 2

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #WOWLDN, cross-cultural, faith, featured, Jewish, Jewish Women, minority, Muslim, Muslim Women, Nisa-Nashim, religion, wow, WOW Festival 2018, WOW London.

by Carmina Masoliver

Part 2 of 2 – Part 1: Fertility as a Feminist Issue at WOW Festival

In the second part of my WOW Festival 2018 coverage, I’m focussing on the panel, ‘We Stand Together: Muslim and Jewish Women Speak Out’. During this event, the women speaking came from the organisation Nisa-Nashim (‘women’ in Hebrew and Arabic). Joining co-chairs Julie Siddiqi and Laura Marks, were Judith and Aqueela. Although I’m not religious, I was interested in the discussion because I think it’s important for people from different backgrounds to come together, and because I am concerned about the reports of rising hate crimes against both groups.

WHITENESS, PALESTINE AND ‘THE JEWISH STATE’

Posted on January 10, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Apartheid, Ashkenazi, Australia, BDS, Benjamin Netanyahu, canada, colonialism, culture, detention, Emmanuel Nahshon, Ethiopia, featured, Holot, identity, imperialism, income gap, indigeneous, israel, Jewish, migrant, Mizrahim, native, neocolonialism, palestine, racism, refugee, Richard Seymour, South Africa, Susan Abulhawa, systemic racism, two state, white supremacy, whiteness, zionism.

by Scott McLaughlan

Israel’s population is 74.7% Jewish, 20.8% Arab and 4.5% “other”. According to the latest population statistics, “those of European and American ancestry make up about 2.2 million (36%) of the Jewish population, while Africans fill out another 14.5% and Asians are 11.2%.”

That being said, there are also currently around 50,000 African Migrants in Israel, most of whom are from Eritrea or Sudan. Under the UN Refugee Convention (signed by Israel in 1954) no migrant can be forcibly returned to their country of origin. Israel currently abides by this convention, but systematically refuses to grant asylum to refugees, irrespective of their status and the potential danger and persecution they have fled.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon, recently spewed out the reason for the impasse: Asylum seekers threaten Israel’s identity. The Israeli cabinet has now approved the morally repugnant Holot migrant detention centre, in Israel’s Negev desert, for closure. As a result, two options were laid on the table: step up deportations or jail those who refuse to leave Israel.Continue Reading

A PROMISE OF EVERYTHING AND NOTHING: THE BALFOUR DECLARATION 100 YEARS ON

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Arab, Arab revolt, Arthur Balfour, Arthur Koestler, balfour, balfour declaration, Benjamin Netanyahu, Britain, centenary, David Ben-Gurion, Homeland, israel, Israeli Prime Minister, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Jewish, Jews, league of nations, Mandate for Palestine, palestine, Peel Commission, port of Haifa, Resolution 181, Suez Canal, united nations, white paper, World War One, WW1, Zionist.

by Justin Reynolds

The Balfour Declaration carries the same incendiary charge as when it was first published a century ago this week.

For most Israelis, the short letter expressing British sympathy for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine continues to be venerated as the first formal recognition from one of the world’s great powers of the legitimacy of the Zionist enterprise.

For the Palestinians it still stands condemned as an act of imperialist chauvinism according to which, in the withering assessment of the (Jewish) writer Arthur Koestler, ‘one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third.’

The Declaration, so the conventional narrative goes, ignited a slow-burning process of settlement that had been edging forwards since the late 19th century.Continue Reading

CAPTAIN AMERICA: TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE OUTRAGE WAY

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged American dream, antifa, Axel Alonso, Captain America, comic book, comics, fascism, fiction, Hitler, Hydra, industry, Jack Kirby, Jewish, Joe Simon, marketing, Marvel, Nazi, Nazism, Nick Spencer, Sam Wilson, Secret Empire, social issues, Steve Rogers, Superior Foes of Spider-Man, The Fix, World War Two.

by Richard Worth

Captain America is a Nazi and everyone is very, very mad. There has been a whole bunch of articles about Cap’s Nazification, some explaining it away as comics being comics, others taking a very real offence to the souring of Steve Rogers’ origins. Created by Jewish superteam Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as a way of taking out their frustration at America’s lack of involvement in WW2, it’s clear that this change has huge importance in our current climate.Continue Reading

FINE ART IN CÓRDOBA

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos, Andalusían, Andalusia, Antonio del Castillo, Arcangel San Rafael, art, art gallery, Baroque, bullfighter, Cante Jondo, Centro de Creación Contemporánea, Christian, City, cordoba, Falke Pisano, feminism, feminist, fine art, Jewish, La Copla, mathematics, Mezquita-Catedral, Monaña Negra, Museo Julio Romero De Torres, Nicoline Van Harskamp, Poemas de Córdoba, religion, religious, review, roman, sculpture, spain, visual art, warrior.

by Carmina Masoliver

The past few weeks I have been acquainting myself with the visual art that the city of Córdoba has to offer. These included the Museo de Bellas Artes de Córdoba, the Museo Julio Romero De Torres, and the Centro de Creación Contemporánea. Whilst there is still more to see, my wanderings gave me a varied picture of fine art in this part of Spain. Continue Reading

ARE WE THE NAZIS NOW?

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, Calais, daily mail, humanity, immigration, Jewish, migrant crisis, migrants, Nazis, propaganda, refugees, right wing press, VE.

by Robyn Banks

On the anniversary of VE day this year I tried to drive to the supermarket in my home town and was met by crowds of people in Sunday dress, lining the roads leading up to the war memorial and laying down wreaths of poppies as they waited for the procession, which I could hear approaching even from my car, complete with marching band. They were doing so to honour the soldiers lost in WW2; those who fought for our country, or, more ostensibly, those who fought for ‘freedom’.

There were many causes of the Second World War, but what we remember the Nazis for -the version of history we learn in school- is the holocaust. Children in history classes are taught to denounce a fascist regime which placed one type of person, the ‘true’ Aryan German, who was ‘really’ from Germany on the basis of their fair hair and white skin, in a hierarchy above other types of people who were not as worthy. This list included people who were disabled, gay or mentally ill but focussed mainly on Jews, who were considered to have little or no right to the land they lived in because of their ethnicity and heritage. They were not ‘true’ Germans. And it was freedom from this regime, freedom from persecution and discrimination, that most of us proudly believe we fought for. And it’s this which is epitomised in the phrase “If it weren’t for our brave soldiers, we might all be speaking German now”.

INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN’S DAY — ERASING CLASS STRUGGLE FROM FEMINISM

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Betty Friedan, Clara Zetkin, class, class struggle, employment, equality, factory, Feminine Mystique, feminism, feminist, history, immigrants, in theory, international womens day, international working womens day, IWD, Jewish, privilege, protest, Russian, strike, trade union, UN, uprising, US, women, workers rights.

by Robyn Banks

The United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on the 8^th March in 1975, but the day actually has its roots in a variety of strikes and class struggles across industrialised nations long before.

On March 8^th in 1857 there was a strike at a New York City garment factory. Here women and girls between the ages of 13 and 25, mostly Jewish, Russian and Italian immigrants, worked 81 hours a week for three dollars, of which one and a quarter went for room and board. The strike was sparked when factory foremen, noticing that the women were less ‘energetic’ if they were allowed to eat before working, changed the factory opening time to 5AM. For a day the factory workers marched and picketed, demanding improved working conditions, a ten hour day and equal rights for women. Their ranks were broken up by police. Fifty one years later, on March 8^th 1908, their sisters in the needle trades in New York marched again in honour of the 1867 March, this time demanding the vote, an end to sweatshops and child labour. And then, in November 1909, came the uprising of the 20,000.

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GENERAL ELECTION: A JEWISH LEFTIST’S THOUGHTS

CALL THEM BY THEIR NAME: CONCENTRATION CAMPS

WOW FESTIVAL LONDON 2018: PART 2

WHITENESS, PALESTINE AND ‘THE JEWISH STATE’

A PROMISE OF EVERYTHING AND NOTHING: THE BALFOUR DECLARATION 100 YEARS ON

FINE ART IN CÓRDOBA

ARE WE THE NAZIS NOW?

INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN’S DAY — ERASING CLASS STRUGGLE FROM FEMINISM

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