Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.
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Where are the migrants?
CONTINUE READING: Where are the migrants?The outburst by the Mayor of Limerick, who called for ‘anybody’ living in Ireland who cannot afford to pay for him/herself to be deported after three months, has highlighted the absence of concern for migrants living in Ireland in the current debates about the recession. While concern has been rightly voiced in relation to people…
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Crocodile tears in the Unites Nations
CONTINUE READING: Crocodile tears in the Unites NationsEli Aminov November 09 Shortly after the UN Commission on Human Rights adopted the Goldstone Report the Israeli Ambassadress to the United Nations started a whining, emotional blackmailing attack against the commission: “Israel is the only state in the world which is being discriminated against by the commission and criticized…
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Anti racism and lived experience
CONTINUE READING: Anti racism and lived experienceSince the onset of the recession and the demise of the NCCRI and the cut in the budget of the Equality Authority and the Irish Commission on Human Rights, no one has been speaking much about racism. Most Irish people feel they have other priorities, as they try to make ends meet, get a bank…
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Women in the asylum twilight zone
CONTINUE READING: Women in the asylum twilight zoneSusan (not her real name) was granted leave to remain in Ireland three weeks before she took her own life. An asylum seeker from Nigeria, Susan was the parent of Irish citizen children. After she had her last child in 2004 she broke her back and suffered severe mental health problems. Several of her children…
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Cry freedom
CONTINUE READING: Cry freedomLast week, when Neve Gordon, an Israeli professor of political science, published an article in The New York Times arguing that boycotting Israel is the only way to make any progress towards justice for Palestine, Israelis and Jews all over the world called for his dismissal. Their excuse for opposing boycott is ‘academic freedom’. Yet,…
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Veiled threats?
CONTINUE READING: Veiled threats?Five years after the French parliament passed a law forbidding children from wearing the headscarf or any other “conspicuous” religious symbol in schools – read forbidding Muslim girls from wearing the veil in public schools, the French government has recently indicated it was prepared to legally ban the burka. In guise of defending Muslim women…
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Racist attacks not just result of extreme right
CONTINUE READING: Racist attacks not just result of extreme rightWhen ‘post conflict’ Northern Ireland was dubbed by the BBC the ‘race hate capital of Europe’ in 2004, Robbie McVeigh’s analysis made the point that it was wrong to say, as many journalists did, that racism escalated simply because Protestants and Catholics had stopped fighting each other. Rather, McVeigh insisted, racism was not a new…
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The Israeli racial state
CONTINUE READING: The Israeli racial stateWho is next? On the eve of Israel’s 61th Independence Day last week, the Israeli police arrested six Israeli Jewish feminist political activists, members of New Profile, the Movement for the Civil-isation of Israeli society, including a 70-year-old woman, for assisting young Israelis to evade conscription. The police entered the activists’ home, confiscated their computers…
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So what if she forged?
CONTINUE READING: So what if she forged?I am writing this before the case has been decided and before we know whether a Nigerian mother who is seeking asylum in Ireland for herself and her daughters is allowed to remain in Ireland. Much has been said about Pamela Izevbekhai’s case. Her recent admission, on the Marion Finnucane show, that her asylum claim…
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