Arab World

The brown bigots

Dawn: The common stereotype of a racist is a fat, white man hurling abuses at ‘niggers’, ‘Pakis,’ Jews and gays. Whereas once communists too figured on the hate list of white supremacists, they have now largely been replaced with Muslims. But Western racist organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan, […]

Israel’s ‘land for lives’ is theft. Pure and simple World View: Israel takes land, Palestine loses land; that’s the way it works

by Robert Fisk, The Independent So a bit more of Palestine has slidden down the plughole. A thousand more acres of Palestinian land stolen by the Israeli government – for “appropriation” is theft, is it not? – and the world has made the usual excuses. The Americans found it “counter-productive” […]