Most Israeli Jews think there’s no occupation. So what is it? | +972 Magazine

If “occupation” is the wrong word to describe a reality in which Palestinians can, with no power to object, be kicked out of their homes for a few hours or a few days at a time so that the Israeli army can come and play war games in their backyards — what is the correct word? How do you classify a regime that considers a gathering of 10 or more people to be an “illegal assembly,” and which responds by arresting, beating or shooting the participants? Or how about a daily existence in which every entry and exit requires military approval and is scrutinized, logged and tracked unfailingly? And when that military authority can take away freedom of movement as a means of collective punishment — what is that called? In a manner of speaking, you can call this state of affairs anything you like: an occupation by any other name would still be as unjust. But that is precisely the point behind this poll finding — the denial and argument here is not, despite what it may seem, over semantics. At the heart of the matter is whether one believes that Israel’s military rule over 2.8 million Palestinians in the West Bank, and its siege on 1.8 million Gazans, are just or not. So where do you stand?

Source: Most Israeli Jews think there’s no occupation. So what is it? | +972 Magazine

Deadly Algal Bloom Triggers Social Uprising in Southern Chile | Inter Press Service

The union headed by Villarroel represents 35 fishers who mainly catch the Chilean blue mussel (Mytilus chilensis), Chilean abalone (Concholepas concholepas), the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) and the surf clam (Mesodesma donacium). All of these have been contaminated by the red tide. In previous outbreaks, “the seaweed hadn’t been contaminated, but now it has been. We’ve never seen that before,” Villarroel said. He believes the salmon companies “have destroyed the marine system and seabed.” The protests, which have included the burning of tires and clashes with the police, worry the government of socialist President Michelle Bachelet, which offered 1,100 dollars indemnification each for 5,500 artisanal fishers, to be paid in four installments, subject to the evolution of the red tide. The compensation, which also included a basket of basic foodstuffs worth 37 dollars, was rejected by union leaders, who argued that the amount was too small and that it wasn’t being paid to all of the affected fishers. In a new 28-point list of demands, they demanded the payment of 2,650 dollars in six installments, cancellation of their debts, and the declaration of a large part of Chiloé as a “disaster zone”. They also called for greater regional control of local natural resources, lower fuel prices, a special regional minimum wage, guaranteed public health coverage, and a regional university. Most scientists blame the red tide on climate change, which drove up water temperatures and caused an increase in algae and toxins.

Source: Deadly Algal Bloom Triggers Social Uprising in Southern Chile | Inter Press Service

Moroccan Women Continue the Fight for Rights | wnn interviews global

As a result, over the past two decades, Moroccan women have fought for and won the right to divorce and the right to be the equals of men under the law. Morocco has women in top positions. They are ministers or Members of Parliament (MPs) and participate in major decisions. We managed to create a lobby of women MPs to support women’s rights, including the revision of discriminatory laws and the proposal of a quota to ensure women’s access to elected offices. Great progress has been made; and today, Morocco is hailed as one of the most progressive Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa on women’s issues. It is true that obstacles persist, including resistance from people whose mentality has not yet changed. Last month, for example, the women’s and human rights community was deeply disappointed when Morocco’s parliament passed a women’s rights bill that – despite years of demands from NGOs and activists — failed to criminalize marital rape, among other shortcomings. The social, political, and economic rights of Moroccan women still have not been fully realized. But we cannot give up and say that it’s over. We are and must continue to be vigilant. As an example, we are continuing to lobby parliament to bring amendments to the bill to fight against violence against women. As women, we do not have a day of rest, a moment of relief, in our struggle for equality; our fight for fairness and freedom goes on, day in and day out. Some battles are won, and some are lost, but we continue. I have made the fight for the rights of women my life. Every day, every moment, wherever I am, I fight for women to be free. And when a battered woman wins her case in court; when a woman who has come to you in the past in desperate straits calls to tell you that the judge has sentenced her abusive husband to prison—the rewards are worth the fight.

Source: Moroccan Women Continue the Fight for Rights | wnn interviews global

Zika index: VDU’s posts on Zika…

To make it a little easier for me to keep up and to look back at the crazy assumptions made during the ‘fog of outbreak’, I thought an index of some of my Zika virus (ZIKV)-related posts – would be useful.What does it mean when one twin gets a disease and the other doesn’t? The media reposts on a new twin study in Brazil.Zika, twins and complexity…http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/zika-twins-and-complexity.html08MAY2016The first ZIKV-containing epidemiology report, not focussed on microcephaly, from Brazil. But little detail and more questions raised about clicnial diagnosis to described a poorly lab-supported epidemic.Zika virus (ZIKV) disease in Brazil (not just microcephaly) gets its own report…kindahttp://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/zika-virus-zikv-detection-in-brazil-not.html29APR2016Review of the first report of vertically acquired foetal ZIKV with detection of viral RNA in amniotic fluid and some further questions.Zika virus in amniotic fluid…but is that enough?http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/zika-virus-in-amniotic-fluidbut-is-that.html09JAN2016© 2013-2015 Ian M. Mackay. PhD. This content was originally published at http://virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au/ 9920132014201599

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Re-reading Nakba

this must be read by many

نادية حرحش

Re-reading Nakba

As the social media is starting to flood with statuses and articles about the Nakba in these days, commemorating the 68th year of occupation. I feel for the first time in my life as an adult, that I am ready to re-read the Nakba.

It took me however years inside my adulthood to read about the Nakba. As if it has been part of a collective catastrophe (which it is) that I personally lived and endured, and some parts of my brain always insisted on blocking. It always felt like a deep injury that lived on your skin for so long and you are too vulnerable on touching it, for the fear of opening it and getting it infected.

I have dared, however, in the last years to dig more into the matter. It is impossible to get anything from my parents or my grandmother. There is…

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Spain: Podemos and United Left launch alliance ahead of new vote | Green Left Weekly

Spain’s anti-austerity party Podemos and older left-wing party United Left announced on May 9 that they had reached a preliminary agreement to run on a joint platform before Spain’s new general election on June 26.In a statement, party representatives said the alliance aimed to “recover the country” in favor of the “working classes and social majorities.” Both parties said they would consult their members on May 10 and 11 to formalise the arrangement.Spain’s last election, in December, failed to give any party enough seats to form a government, and five months of talks among the parties have not led to a governing coalition.A survey released on May 6 showed voters were still not inclined to revert to the two-party system that has dominated Spanish politics for the past 40 years, and are likely to spread their votes among 10 different parties .The survey also suggested Podemos was losing support before the coming election. However, an alliance between Podemos and United Left would leave the two parties with about 23% of the vote, making them the main left-wing force, ahead of the once-dominant Socialists but behind the conservative People’s Party of acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.Another survey found that the alliance would be the first choice for people under than 55.

Source: Spain: Podemos and United Left launch alliance ahead of new vote | Green Left Weekly

One Of Trump\’s California Delegates Is The Leader Of A White Nationalist Party

“Donald Trump is the candidate that will Make America Hate Again.”

Source: One Of Trump\’s California Delegates Is The Leader Of A White Nationalist Party

“I just hope to show how I can be mainstream and have these views,” Johnson told Mother Jones. “I can be a white nationalist and be a strong supporter of Donald Trump and be a good example to everybody.” He also said that when applying to be a delegate, he did not use the phrase “white nationalist” but did disclose his background and activism.

According to their website, the American Freedom Party’s platform calls for white Americans to “push back” and says the party “shares the customs and heritage of the European American people.” The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the AFP to be a hate group and says it was “initially established by racist Southern California skinheads [and] aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule.” The SPLC is a little less generous to Johnson, calling him “an uninspiring but determined white supremacist.”

Jill Stein, leave essentialist ideas of motherhood out of the election

Whether you’re #WithHer or Feeling the Bern, we should have no patience for this kind of essentialism. Mothers aren’t magical fairy goddesses who embody eternal feminine “values” of goodness and love and truth and breaking up the banks or whatever. They’re people, billions of them, who care and fail to care for others in many different ways, not identical props for a morality play.Monolithic visions of maternity — who can be a good mother, and how they should do so — have served for a long time to restrict the personal and professional lives of women. Surely Dr. Stein know how much of the country still believes that the “maternal value” of selflessness is incompatible with work, or how public assistance is often predicated on a vision of the “maternal value” of sexual purity.And guess what: there are plenty of awesome woman who aren’t mothers. That doesn’t make them less than, as people or as leaders.Plus, at least one mother is, in fact, Hillary Clinton. Critiquing a woman politician for being insufficiently maternal is a classic move from the sexist playbook of politics. When was the last time you heard anyone wonder if a male politician is a good enough dad?Want to talk about whether Clinton’s policies meet your feminist politics? Great. But don’t reduce the diversity of mothers to a flat, frankly sexist vision of mothers. You can do better, Dr. Stein.

Source: Jill Stein, leave essentialist ideas of motherhood out of the election

Obama’s Take on Revolution

Democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100% right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right and you still have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral security, but you will not get what you want.

Source: Obama’s Critique of Sanders

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