Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.
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Incarceration, disavowal and Ireland’s prison industrial complex
CONTINUE READING: Incarceration, disavowal and Ireland’s prison industrial complexIncarceration, disavowal and Ireland’s prison industrial complex Paper presented at the ‘Irish Prisons: incarceration, repression and control’ conference, Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast 26-27 October 2017. Introduction In September 2014 residents of several asylum centres in Ireland staged protests against their incarceration. Since April 2000 asylum seekers have been dispersed to ‘Direct Provision’ centres, managed by…
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Why Taoiseach Varadkar is bad for equality in Ireland
CONTINUE READING: Why Taoiseach Varadkar is bad for equality in IrelandWhen Larry Gordon, a member of the progressive Dublin Food Co Op recently told a niqab-wearing Muslim woman that she has no right to come to shop for organic produce at the Co Op and refused to apologise for his racist and Islamophobic outburst, a white Co Op member told me, after I intervened, that…
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Oxymorons and metaphors: Israel Studies from racialization to decolonization
CONTINUE READING: Oxymorons and metaphors: Israel Studies from racialization to decolonizationA paper I presented at a workshop entitled ‘Decolonizing knowledge production: The case of Israel-Palestine’, London School of Economics, 6 June 2017, 50 years since Israel’s 1967 war against its Arab neighbours and since the occupation of the West Bank, Sinai, the Gaza Strip and the Golan. Introduction: Some thoughts about decolonizing Israel Studies Following…
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Archiving silence: Remarks on Vukasin Nedeljkovic’s Asylum Archive exhibition, NCAD 6 December 2016
CONTINUE READING: Archiving silence: Remarks on Vukasin Nedeljkovic’s Asylum Archive exhibition, NCAD 6 December 2016I want to I present three interlinked propositions about Vukasín Nedeljković’s Asylum Archive exhibition. Firstly, just like Irish state and society had managed to ignore the workhouses, mental asylums, mother and baby homes, Magdalene Laundries and industrial schools, they also ‘manage not to know’ about the plight of asylum seekers, precisely because direct provision isolates…
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The unspoken whiteness of Brexit
CONTINUE READING: The unspoken whiteness of BrexitA couple of days after British referendum on exiting the EU I witnessed a disturbing altercation between two hard working Indian sub-continent migrant owners of a Dublin city centre Spar shop and a bunch of white Irish drunks who were kicking the shop’s door and harassing the owners in an attempt to steal booze. Without…
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When homophobia becomes Islamophobia
CONTINUE READING: When homophobia becomes IslamophobiaWe are all still in deep shock after the brutal massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida where 49 people were slaughtered by Omar Mateen, a Muslim American citizen. Since the massacre, wrongly described by some media as the ‘deadliest’ attack on civilians in recent American history, we are trying to fathom Mateen’s…
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Increasing extreme right wing threat for Ireland
CONTINUE READING: Increasing extreme right wing threat for IrelandOn February 6, a broad coalition of Irish anti-racist, migrant-support and political groupings, now calling ourselves Solidarity Alliance against Racism and Fascism (SARF), staged a peaceful anti-racism rally aiming to secure a safe space for anti-racism on the streets of Dublin against the rise of anti-Islam and anti-immigrant groupings. We managed to succeed in preventing…
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No foothold for racists
CONTINUE READING: No foothold for racistsI was thrilled to stand on O’Connell Street on Saturday 6 February as part of a large coalition of people, Irish and migrants, who congregated in front of the GPO to say no to racism and Islamophobia and to counter Pegida Ireland’s plans to hold its inaugural meeting. Pegida stands for ‘Patriotic Europeans against the…
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Criticising Israel is not the same as being anti-Jewish
CONTINUE READING: Criticising Israel is not the same as being anti-JewishAn op ed article David Landy and I wrote for The Irish Times The recent calls to expel former London mayor Ken Livingstone from the British Labour Party have created a worrying alliance between those who use accusations of anti-Semitism to silence critics of Israel and those who use them to attack supporters of the…
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