1 August 2021 — MintPress News
British Home Secretary Pritti Patel sees the country’s offshore migrant detention centers, referred to by some as “concentration camps” as a model for the U.K. to follow.
Tag: racism
Palestinians in Israel now face far-right mob violence backed by the state
14 May 2021 — Jonathan Cook
Protests by Palestinian citizens are being greeted with a mix of police violence and vigilante-style attacks from Jewish fascists
Middle East Eye – 14 May 2021
With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the rapidly escalating ethnic violence inside Israel, where one in five of the population is Palestinian.
Just Like in the US, Policing in Israel is Rooted in Racist Violence
15 April 2021 — Mint Press News
Palestine/Israel
In the US, policing can be traced back to nineteenth-century slave patrols. In Israel, security forces have roots in Haganah, a Zionist militia group involved in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
HAIFA, ISRAEL — Israeli state violence manifests in several ways—police killings, home demolitions, displacement and detentions—but each is grounded in the same colonialist ideology spanning decades.
IRR responds to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report
31 March 2021 — Institute of Race Relations
Sewell report seeks to sideline structural factors attached to racism
From what we have seen, both the findings and the recommendations of the government-commissioned Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report fit neatly with the government’s attempts, post-Brexit, to portray the British nation as a beacon of good race relations and a diversity model, in the report’s words, for ‘white majority countries’ across the globe. Continue reading
The Real Crime Isn’t Australian War Crimes—but a Chinese Political Cartoon About Australian War Crimes
15 December 2020 — FAIR
Is information inherently less trustworthy and authoritative because the source is Chinese? It’s a question Westerners must grapple with as the US government and corporate journalists intensify their online “psychological operations” against China to manipulate public opinion in support of another Cold War (FAIR.org, 5/15/20).
UK: The racist roots and reality of school segregation
22 October 2020 — Novara Media
As education becomes increasingly authoritarian, the battle against racist educational enclosure policies is one the left cannot afford to lose, argues the Institute of Race Relations’ Jessica Perera
The Police Can Only Become More Racist, Unless They Are Abolished
7 October 2020 — Novara Media
Cat Sims
by Becka Hudson @becka_sh
The British public imagination remains replete with nightmares about racialised crime. This year, there are statue desecrators. In the 1980s, there were muggers. There is always the figure of the thug. The illegal immigrant. The terrorist. More recently, over the past decade, there have emerged particularly frightening types of gang: drill music-producing gangs escalating knife crime within inner cities and running ‘county lines’ of child drug dealers outside of them; and the ‘Asian grooming gang’, networks of Muslim south Asian men engaged in child sexual exploitation who target white girls.
How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System
28 September 2020 — Institute of Race Relations
Today, the Institute of Race Relations publishes a major report, How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System: A London Case Study.
The truth behind Netanyahu’s admission that police killing was a cover-up
14 September 2020 — Jonathan Cook
Apology over portrayal of Bedouin citizen as a terrorist in 2017 incident does not just expose police crimes, it deepens the deception
Middle East Eye – 14 September 2020
It is unprecedented. Three years after the Israeli government first began vilifying a Palestinian teacher to retrospectively justify his murder by Israel’s security forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a public apology to his family last week. Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan was not a “terrorist” after all, the Israeli prime minister conceded.
American Left Silence on China Helps Lay Foundation for the U.S.’ New Cold War
5 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy.
“The racism that undergirds the New Cold War against China is nothing new.”
‘I’m from St Raphael’s estate’: an interview with George the Poet
10 July 2020 — Institute of Race Relations
Written by Jessica Perera
IRR’s Jessica Perera continues her examination of the human cost of estate regeneration by talking about pride and potential with a north-west London poet.
George Mpanga is a London-born spoken-word poet and host of the award-winning ‘Have you heard George’s Podcast?’ If you have not yet discovered the podcast, you might be more familiar with its accompanying advertising posters: ‘it’s hard to listen when you’ve never been heard’ that are dotted across the capital. Concerned that his community on the housing estate he grew up on, St Raphael’s in the north-west London borough of Brent, would not be heard during the current regeneration consultation, George recorded a poem explaining the fears the community had regarding the redevelopment plans.
The School That Tried to End Racism: A cruel experiment in furtherance of identity politics
10 July 2020 — WSWS
By Margot Miller
Channel 4’s two-part documentary, The School That Tried to End Racism, centres on events during the filming of a group of Year 7 (eleven- and twelve-year-old) pupils over three weeks in April last year.
The pupils were subjected to a cruel experiment, but this was positively described by the programme’s narrator as a “ground-breaking initiative” concerning racial bias.
