Archive | February, 2020

  • Auschwitz, the BBC and antisemitism smears

    Auschwitz, the BBC and antisemitism smears

    Guerin had dared, unlike any of her colleagues in the western media, to allude to the terrible price inflicted on the Palestinian people by the west’s decision to help the Zionist movement create a Jewish state shortly after the Holocaust. The Palestinians were dispossessed of their homeland as apparent compensation–at least for those Jews who became citizens of Israel–for Europe’s genocidal crimes.

  • Santu Mofokeng, Eyes Wide Shut, Motouleng Cave, Clarens – Free State, 2004.

    I will hold you in my arms a day after the war

    On Monday, 27 January, the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng slipped away. His camera had been a familiar presence in the anti-apartheid struggle; after years of photographing police violence and popular resistance, he tired of making ‘images bespeaking gloom, monotony, anguish, struggle, [and] oppression’, he wrote in 1993.

  • A young Mabel Lee

    For Mabel Lee, a pioneer for suffrage, some recognition at last

    Not all US women were given the right to vote in 1920, despite leading courageous efforts to widen the franchise.