AUCKLAND, New
Zealand (AP) — Singer Matiu Walters grinned as he gazed out over 50,000
damp but delirious fans and said those magic words: “So, what’s up Eden
Park?”
While much of the world
remains hunkered down, the band Six60 has been playing to huge crowds
in New Zealand, where social distancing isn't required after the nation
stamped out the coronavirus. The band’s tour finale on Saturday night
was billed as the largest concert in the
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Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor of
Linguistics at the University of Arizona, is widely regarded as the
world’s foremost public intellectual. First known for his pathbreaking
linguistic work, Chomsky came to political prominence on account of his
outspoken opposition to the US invasion of Vietnam. An icon of the New
Left, he has since established an international reputation as a
socialist activist and critic of US foreign policy, neoliberal state
capitalism, the American news media, and the Israeli colonisation of
Palestine. As part of his voluminous scholarly output, Chomsky’s
research on the Palestine Question dissects the historical and
contemporary role of the United States in underwriting and facilitating
Israel’s systematic dispossession of the Palestinians. His bestselling
works include Syntactic Structures (1957); Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood (1974); The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (1983); Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988); and Understanding Power (2002). We eagerly anticipate his forthcoming book The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and Urgent Need for Radical Change (June 2021, Haymarket Books).
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What happened to the Palestinians when Israel declared its independence in 1948?
Was it ethnic cleansing? Chaos? Legitimate Jewish self-defense?
Prof. Ilan Pappe is perhaps the most contentious Israeli historian of this question.
Decidedly left-wing in his outlook, Pappe is both an historian, and a social activist. He's perhaps most famous for his book "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine," in which he lays out a case that the war for the creation of Israel in 1948 is best understood as an ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinian population by primarily European Jews.
Unsurprisingly, Pappe's scholarship is widely derided in Israel. Yet his work is often celebrated by many pro-Palestinian activists in the Middle East and abroad.
Pappe currently teaches history at the University of Exeter, in the UK.
This is part one of my two part interview with Pappe last summer, in Haifa.
For the contrasting academic perspective, please see my interviews with Prof Benny Morris, of Ben-Gurion University, here: https://goo.gl/sC5BTe
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Soup kitchen says girl and her family are regular visitors
Amy Blaney
Ireland’s homelessness crisis is laid
bare in a striking photograph of a four-year-old girl sitting on the
street eating at a soup kitchen.
It is understood that the girl and her family are staying in emergency homeless accommodation in a Dublin hotel.
“She’s a lovely, beautiful little girl she is,” said Jeri Bryne who runs Ballymun Soup Run in Dublin.
The little girl was sitting on a crate eating her dinner from a plastic container when the photo was taken.
Ms Byrne says the girl and her family go to the soup kitchen “every week”.
It is understood that the hotel has a
lot of families in emergency accommodation who don’t have access to
cooking facilities and therefore rely on the soup kitchen.
Ms Byrne says the soup kitchen tries to provide a “healthier option” for the families.
“There does be loads of little kids
with us coming down for dinner,” said Ms Byrne who estimates that about
50pc of those who avail of the soup kitchen service are children.
She said one woman, who has three children and has been homeless for 32 months, uses the soup kitchen service.
The kitchen serves on average between 70 and 120 people every Sunday evening.
Running since September 2020, the it offers food to both the homeless and “anyone that’s struggling”, said Ms Byrne.
“Anyone can pop along, and we’ll help them out,” she added.
The soup kitchen runs every Sunday
evening from 7pm and serves a range of dishes cooked by volunteers and
donated by local cooks and businesses.
