Standing at Gaza Border Felt Like Visiting Auschwitz: Burmese Genocide Scholar Maung Zarni
The United Nations is warning about widespread human rights abuses in Burma as the military regime intensifies the killings and arbitrary arrests of tens of thousands of civilians since seizing power in a coup over three years ago. A new report from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says many of those detained by the Burmese military are children taken from their parents, with dozens of minors dying in custody. "What it paints is an extremely disturbing picture of Burma descending into this human rights abyss. If you're living there, it's a complete living hell," says Burmese scholar, dissident and human rights activist Maung Zarni.
He also discusses his recent visit with faith leaders to the West Bank and the border of Gaza, drawing parallels between Burma's and Israel's human rights abuses. "Israel has taken the practices and policies of genocide to a whole new level," says Zarni.
Is the Israeli Army raping children?
The war on Gaza is the deadliest for children, but lesser-known is the sexual abuse, starvation, and mistreatment of Palestinian children detained in Israel.
US official’s extraordinary logic to justify Israeli action in Lebanon
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Thursday made quite a bizarre justification to defend Israeli attack on Lebanon by detonating communication devices there. His extraordinary logic meant that while Israel could attack any countries, those countries did not have the right to defend themselves.
Anti-Zionism Sweeping Across Jewish Communities
Adrienne Maree Brown, writer, activist, and co-founder of the United States League of Young Voters, joins to discuss her recent book Loving Corrections.
Maree Brown walks through a few particular essays in ‘Loving Corrections,’ which tackle the idea of countering the narratives of supremacy that have taken root in particular ideologies (patriarchy, Zionism) without atomizing or marginalizing the identities that have been corrupted (masculinity, Judaism, respectively). After expanding on the importance of understanding the historical and social context for building these bridges, Adrienne and Emma bring the conversation to a close with the importance of understanding the personal context of interpersonal conflict.
