@shado.mag “You can have injustice and have peace […] so peace isn’t the answer, liberation is the answer.” Kwame Ture Peace for whom? Peace for what? Sara highlights two historic moments to know about when “peace” was supposedly on the table: 1) Back in 1947 when the UN drew up...
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To understand why western politicians are refusing to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, we need to understand both the historical and contemporary legacy of Western imperialism
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Energy Embargo for Palestine speaks out on the British Museum’s unprecedented collaboration with the Met Police in latest protest crackdown
@shado.mag Why are we still waiting for the West to call a ceasefire in Palestine? Western countries each have their own specific reasons for supporting Israel but to summarise it comes down to two things – imperialism and profit. Historic Palestine is a fertile, resource-rich region and strategic corridor between...
How grassroots organisers are making Israel’s Tech dependency a liability
@shado.mag Let’s talk about Palestinians being engaged in anti-colonial resistance to the Zionist settlement before the Nakba in 1948. In this collab with Makan, a charity strengthening Palestinian Rights, Sara gives us a short history lesson on Palestinian resistance during the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939. In Ghassan Kanafani’s analysis of...
What the ‘controversy’ over Bob Vylan reveals about the British mediascape today
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Commemorating courage, abandoning it today
20 years on, the campaign is more urgent than ever
On personal survival and political responsibility
@shado.mag On Palestine EP 9: Why is it unhelpful to present the causes of the genocide as a religious conflict? The so-called Israel-Palestine ‘conflict’ is often seen as a religious conflict between Muslim and Jews. In this episode Sara unpacks why it is both wrong and unhelpful to view and...
Why we painted a mural under the Westway