Solidarity and Activism

French Carbon Tax Protests

Yellow vests imposed on motorists become powerful anti-government symbol By Donna Laframboise | Big Picture News | November 26, 2018 For more than a week, protests have been underway across France, sparked by January’s scheduled increase in carbon taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel. These taxes are supposed to save the world from climate change […]

‘Netanyahu Must Know His Probable Visit Would Be Confronted by All Bahrainis’

Al-Manar | November 8, 2018 Al-Wefaq Islamic Association in Bahrain on Thursday maintained that normalizing ties with the Zionist entity is a treason, stressing that Netanyahu and all the Israelis can never visit the Gulf country. In a statement, Al-Wefaq considered that the media reports which mentioned that the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu received […]

Irish Lawmakers Call for Arms Embargo on Israel

IMEMC | November 2, 2018 In a letter published in the Irish Times newspaper, Minister of State Finian McGrath and fifty other Irish TDs and Senators have called for an arms embargo to be placed on Israel, and for “an end to the bi-lateral arms trade between Ireland and the apartheid state”. In addition to independent Minister McGrath, the signatories […]

After 70 Years of Abuse, a Definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism

Is this where the fight-back begins? By Stuart Littlewood | Dissident Voice | October 10, 2018 What is the matter with the Palestine solidarity movement? Since 1948 (and before that, even) the Palestinians have been viciously abused and dispossessed while the perpetrators and their supporters have continually played the anti-Semitism card. Bemused spectators have been […]