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New Year Violence
Two nights after Jewish people celebrated the New Year, two violent incidents occurred which made me angrier than usual at the brutal behaviour of Israeli Jewish West Bank settlers, the Israeli police, and the Israeli racial state. On Friday 30 September, Jewish settlers at the West Bank settlement of Anatot brutally attacked a group of…
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Why Nick Griffin should not be allowed to speak at Trinity College
As of now, the leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin is scheduled to debate the question of whether multiculturalism has gone ‘too far’ in Trinity College’s Philosophical Society on October 20. I have written many times about the problems with policies of multiculturalism – which, let us remember (though called ‘intercultualism’ in this…
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Madness, Badness and the Irish
‘Behind the Walls’ was a two-part documentary series charting the history of Ireland’s psychiatric hospitals (http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/behind_the_walls.html) . Part one lifted the lid on this vast system – during the middle decades of the 20th century, Ireland led the world in locking up more of its people per capita in mental hospitals, ahead even of the…
Blog and website by Ronit Lentin, a political sociologist, writer and an antiracist activist.