BDS IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER

Posted on November 28, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged anti-semitism, Apartheid, BDS, ben gvir, Benjamin Netanyahu, displacement, featured, genocide, israel, jenin, Knesset, mahmoud al-saadi, meir kahane, monday.com, neutrality, norwegian refugee council, palestine, shireen abu akleh, terrorism.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

Between January 1^st 2022 and 25^th November 2022, Israeli forces killed 199 Palestinian civilians, including 47 children, and at least 15 women. Perhaps the most high profile killing occurred in May 2022, when Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) whilst covering a story in the Occupied West Bank. She was wearing a press vest at the time, marking her clearly identifiable as both a journalist and a target. Others present at the time, including a colleague who was injured, made it clear that there were no Palestinian fighters near them when they were targeted by direct fire. This incident was, in effect, a continuation of Israel’s deliberate policy of targeting journalists as a means of shutting down any reporting which can contradict the Israeli state narrative – and, once more, Israel escaped without repercussions.

WHAT NEXT AFTER THE SIEGE OF CAPITOL HILL?

Posted on January 13, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged attack, Bannon, Biden, black lives matter, BLM, capitol hill, Community, conspiracy, coup, education, featured, grassroots, mutual aid, QAnon, riot, shaman, siege, terrorism, Trump, USA, violence, White House.

by Sarah Edgcumbe and Clyde Collins

The storming of Capitol Hill in Washington on the 6^th January and the ongoing aftermath has dominated western media over the past few days with good reason. White Americans fuelled by bizarre QAnon conspiracy theories and egged on by Trump’s false narrative of fraudulent election results, forced their way into the building, ransacked the interior, hung confederate flags, stole items and generally behaved like a bunch of supremacist football hooligans who had been binge-drinking for several hours, and whose team had just lost. In doing so however, they demonstrated the extent to which they have become empowered by Trump – and that is terrifying. When Trump leaves the White House (hopefully in handcuffs; tears streaking his fake tan), his manifest right-wing extremist legacy is going to remain present for years to come.

ISIS BRIDE SHAMIMA BEGUM IS BRITISH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged Bangladesh, Boris Johnson, brainwashing, Brexit, british media, citizenship, counterterrorism, daesh, eurocentric, Eurocentrism, featured, grooming, institutional racism, iraq, Iraq War, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, prevent, radicalization, sajid david, Saudi Arabia, scaremongering, Shamima Begum, Syria, tabloid, terrorism, theresa may, xenophobia, Yemen.

By Jonathan Lee

Another day, another outrage. This time it’s about one-time ‘ISIS bride’ Shamima Begum, a 20-year-old girl from Bethnal Green who has finally had her right to return home recognised, after leaving the UK in 2014 to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.

Begum had her citizenship stripped from her in February 2019 by the Home Office. This was declared legal on account of her being a Bangladeshi dual national, meaning she would not be made stateless. However, when she was asked by the BBC, she said she did not have a Bangladeshi passport and had never been to the country. Regardless of the decision against her, her son was a British citizen and should have been allowed to return. Perhaps if he had been allowed to he might have survived. As it was he died of pneumonia in a refugee camp in Northern Syria, a month after his mother had her citizenship revoked. You have to wonder if this all would have happened had she been white?Continue Reading

SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #Save_Idlib, Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, bombing, bombs, ceasfire, drones, featured, Hama, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Idlib, Iran, islamic relief, israel, Nato, propaganda, putin, raed al-saleh, Russia, saraqib, save idlib, state media, Syria, syria campaign, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, terrorism, turkey, UN, united nations, white helmets.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“Children and anybody with a free spirit have become terrorists in the eyes of the world.” My Syrian friend and I are discussing the current situation in Idlib. We are both exasperated that the world is standing idly by as thousands of innocent people are murdered or made homeless. Idlib, a governorate in North West Syria, is often portrayed as home exclusively to terrorists and violent Islamist extremists. My friend’s reference to “a free spirit” is his description of the people who participated in the Syrian revolution: those who dared to demand a free and peaceful life including the right to participate in democratic elections and to exercise freedom of speech and assembly without fear of being arbitrarily detained, tortured, executed or otherwise disappeared into the Syrian regime’s nightmarish prison system.Continue Reading

PROBLEMATIC “PEACEBUILDING”: WHEN THE POWERFUL DON’T ASK AND WON’T LISTEN

Posted on September 12, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged 9/11, abuse, Afghanistan, Afghanistan war, Balkh, capitalism, David Roberts, democracy, ethics, Everyday Peace Indicators, featured, Herat, justice, militia, neoliberalism, peace, peacekeeping, Taliban, terrorism, Trump, war, war on terror, Western, women, women's rights.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

Afghanistan, a country that has been in and out of the news since the 9/11 terror attack and subsequent U.S.-led coalition invasion, is once again at the forefront of media attention this month, as a result of Trump’s decision to cancel peace talks with the Taliban on 9th September. The relentless violence and bombings conducted by Afghan state forces, U.S.-backed Afghan militias, Taliban, religious extremist groups, career criminals and other groups are no longer considered to be remarkable events; they happen so frequently that the international audience has become desensitized to them. Continue Reading

LEGACY OF EMPIRE: DARKEST DAYS OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Anjum Zamrooda Habib, apdp, article 370, Azadi, BJP, british empire, communication, communicaton, Eid al Adha, extremism, featured, Gilgit-Baltistan, Gujarat, Hindu, imperialism, independence, India, islamophobia, israel, Jammu, jkccs, Kashmir, Kunan, Kupwara, Lord Mountbatten, Modi, Muslim, nationalism, Pakistan, palestine, Poshpora, propaganda, Rajputan Rifles, rape, terrorism, Tibet.

by Sarah Edgcumbe, Saba Azeem and Nidhi Suresh

CW: rape, torture

Since 5th August 2019, the Indian government has shut down Kashmir in the most repressive and terrifying fashion possible. 48,000 Indian troops have been moved into the state, making it, with 70,000 Indian troops already posted there, the most densely militarized zone on Earth. These troops are now operating under a “shoot-to-kill” policy and hundreds of Kashmiri human rights activists, academics and business leaders have been arrested. Meanwhile, the Indian government has simultaneously imposed a media and communications blackout, cutting off the internet and thus preventing Kashmiris from being able to communicate their suffering in real time to the rest of the world. Pakistan too revoked state subject rule from Gilgit-Baltistan (part of Pakistan occupied Kashmir) in 1974, in a move similar to India’s current strategy. However, in doing so, there was no media black-out nor curfews imposed. India, on the other , has jailed all Kashmiri leadership, transferring them to jails in New Delhi, as well as, according to a magistrate speaking on condition of anonymity, arresting and detaining over 4,000 Kashmiri citizens since 5th August.

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged arrest, Bashar al-Assad, BDS, Diyarbakir, featured, Gaza, human rights, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, israel, Kurd, Kurdistan, occupation, Omar al Bashir, palestine, PKK, racism, refugee, RSF, Saudi Arabia, state terror, state violence, terrorism, Trump, turkey, UAE, war crimes.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

In April of this year, President Trump further demonstrated his ineptitude as world leader, and cemented his status as an intellectually defective moron, by designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Yes. Trump has designated a sovereign country’s state forces “terrorists” despite his single-handed destruction of the Iranian Nuclear Deal, wholehearted support for Israeli aggression and murder of unarmed Palestinians, and the fact that U.S state forces have unjustifiably slaughtered millions. The pot is definitely calling the kettle black. Continue Reading

SHAMIMA BEGUM IS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETAL FAILURE: WE MUST BRING HER HOME AND LEARN

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged brainwashing, british media, citizenship, counterterrorism, daesh, eurocentric, Eurocentrism, featured, grooming, institutional racism, iraq, Iraq War, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, prevent, radicalization, sajid david, Saudi Arabia, scaremongering, Shamima Begum, Syria, terrorism, xenophobia, Yemen.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

The British press has been in a frenzy recently over nineteen-year-old Shamima Begum and her desire to return to the UK from the refugee camp in Syria where she currently resides. There are probably very few people in the UK who are unaware that Shamima travelled from the UK to ISIS territory in Syria at the age of fifteen, where she married an ISIS militant, conceived and lost two children before giving birth to a third (who also passed away) in the refugee camp in Syria she currently calls home.Continue Reading

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Boris Johnson, capitalism, china, Clinton, deal, diplomacy, drugs, economy, featured, foreign policy, France, germany, Hezbollah, international, Iran, israel, JCPOA, john bolton, Lebanon, middle east, money, Netanyahu, North Korea, nuclear, politics, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, Trump, USA, Venezuela, war, weapons.

by Gunnar Eigener

America’s influence in the Middle East is beginning to fray at the edges. This is bad news for both the region and the global community. America has, over the past decade, became something of a pariah in the area. Its foreign policy, already distrusted by enemies and allies alike, has looked increasingly unclear and erratic under the current administration.

While previous Presidents acted with caution and measure, the Trump White House presses on, having found in its new National Security Advisor John Bolton the man who would seemingly give weight to any decision that Donald Trump would be likely to favour, yet is already being rumoured to be behind Trump’s decision to withdraw from the North Korea Summit. Continue Reading

DO PROTESTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged activism, change, citizen rights, collective, complicit, cooperation, demo, demonstration, featured, g20, G7, government, grassroots, history, intelligence services, international, mosquito, Nicaragua, protest, radical hope, rally, terrorism, Tunisia, US, Venezuela, womens march.

by Gunnar Eigener

If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent the night with a mosquito.

unattributed African proverb

Protests and demonstrations are an important part of democracy. They allow the people the opportunity to express their feelings about the behaviour of the state and its agents. They are a chance to point out society’s ills to those who can do something about it. But do they truly make a difference? Do those who are targeted by the protests feel their impact or are they just able to ignore (or worse) any public displays of anger or upset?

The election of Donald Trump saw mass protests take place across the US. Protests in Gaza have resulted in hundreds of deaths. Every G7 or G20 summit is greeted by demonstrations. In Nicaragua, protests against the government intensified after flippant remarks by the President, Daniel Noriega, and his wife, the Vice-President, demeaned the people. There have been protests in India over the caste system and the Supreme Court, in Tunisia against the cost of living, in Venezuela over the lack of food and medicine, and high inflation rates. The Women’s March globally, protests against abortion laws, the list goes on but the changes do not. Too often nothing seems to change. This is not to say that change should happen purely based on a protest but many protests are about the same thing. So what is the issue?

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BDS IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER

by Sarah Edgcumbe

WHAT NEXT AFTER THE SIEGE OF CAPITOL HILL?

by Sarah Edgcumbe and Clyde Collins

ISIS BRIDE SHAMIMA BEGUM IS BRITISH WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT

SLAUGHTER AND MASS DISPLACEMENT IN IDLIB

PROBLEMATIC “PEACEBUILDING”: WHEN THE POWERFUL DON’T ASK AND WON’T LISTEN

LEGACY OF EMPIRE: DARKEST DAYS OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY

WHAT WE CALL A TERRORIST SHOULD APPLY TO POWERFUL STATES AS WELL

SHAMIMA BEGUM IS A REFLECTION OF SOCIETAL FAILURE: WE MUST BRING HER HOME AND LEARN

AMERICA’S FADING ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

DO PROTESTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

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