Mnar Muhawesh (left), Rania Khalek (center), Abby Martin (right)
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
A student group hosting an event at Oregon State University on Palestine, Syria, and Yemen, has received requests to disinvite two Arab journalists scheduled to speak. However, the student group immediately took a stand and refuses to cancel the event scheduled for April 11.
Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus in the Mathematics building at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP)
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
MINNEAPOLIS — Though it’s been nearly six years, the subject of the Syrian conflict remains as contentious as ever. While those who characterize themselves as pro-regime change have monopolized the wider conversation on Syria, even the most tame opposition against foreign intervention, or the CIA-backed rebels—who now come in varying flavors of extremism—continues to be taboo.
Journalist and co-host of “Unauthorized Disclosure,” Rania Khalek.
The cancellation of a lecture by journalist Rania Khalek, who was invited to speak on the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill campus by Students for Justice in Palestine on February 27, 2017, raises important issues of tactics and strategy within movements for social change.
The whole statement, posted on facebook the night before, reads:
Journalist and co-host of “Unauthorized Disclosure,” Rania Khalek.
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
A clique of individuals, many of whom hold themselves out as advocates of the Syrian rebels, pressured a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at the University of North Carolina and convinced the chapter to cancel an event with journalist Rania Khalek.
Part 1: The Anti-Anti-War-Left By Barbara McKenzie | November 23, 2016 One could argue that for any serious student of the Middle East, using a range of sources, the approved narrative on the Syrian conflict should have been suspect from the outset: the precedents of Iraq and Libya and the accompanying lies, the well-reported lack […]
A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his weapon as he prepares himself for advance, close to a military base, near Azaz, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
Published in partnership with Shadowproof.
With the presidential race heating up ahead of the New York primary, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has joined right-wing proponents of Israeli violence in attacking Bernie Sanders for his criticism of Israel’s 2014 military assault on Gaza.
The post Hillary Clinton attacks dead Palestinians in battle against Bernie Sanders appeared first on BSNEWS.
