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Settler Colonialism: Then and Now (Video)
![[Map of European colonial expansion/settlement of territories that become the United States, 1800-1820. Image from from The National Atlas of the United States of America (1970) via PCL Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin Library]](/content_images/3/sm_settlementexploration.jpg "[Map of European colonial expansion/settlement of territories that become the United States, 1800-1820. Image from from The National Atlas of the United States of America (1970) via PCL Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin Library]")
Settler Colonialism: Then and Now A Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani This lecture was delivered on 6 December 6 2012 at Princeton University for the 10th Annual Edward W. Said '57 Memorial Lecture. Mahmood Mamdani is an academic, author, and political commentator. He is the author of, among other books, Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism (1996), When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (2002), Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (2010), and, most recently, Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity (2012). His works explore the intersection between politics and ...
Keep Reading »Malala, Abandoned to the Hawks of War
![[Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, right, with World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab during the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World at the Dead Sea in Jordan,22 October, 2011. Photo by Photo by Nader Daoud.]](/content_images/3/sm_6269556650_57cf652964_z.jpg "[Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, right, with World Economic Forum founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab during the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World at the Dead Sea in Jordan,22 October, 2011. Photo by Photo by Nader Daoud.]")
On 10 December 2012, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari announced that his government and UNESCO were establishing the “Malala Fund for Girls’ Education,” and that Pakistan would contribute ten million dollars. This fund’s namesake, Malala Yousufzai, is a young activist for girls’ education. She was shot and severely wounded on 9 October 2012 by Taliban-led armed thugs on her way to school in the Swat Valley in Northwest Pakistan. Given the marathon international media coverage of her story, Zardari’s jumping on the bandwagon illustrates how Malala has become the newest, youngest icon for the “War on Terror.” Even as the fifteen year-old recovers from the shooting, she ...
Keep Reading »A Tale of Two Interviews
![[Screen shot from CNN.]](/content_images/3/sm_ScreenShot2012-12-06at12.09.20PM.png "[Screen shot from CNN.]")
“In order to solve the world’s problems, we must continue to have serious debates,” a CNN correspondent says emphatically during a glitzy promotional spot, aired endlessly on the network. But when it comes to Israel’s wars, CNN has also proven that its correspondents and editors reserve the right to reduce or withhold serious discussion and questions of accountability from the interviews it broadcasts. This was particularly clear during the latest violence in Gaza, when, on the last day of fighting, CNN lead anchor Wolf Blitzer sat down with Israeli President Shimon Peres. At the time, over 150 Palestinians were known to be dead and entire blocks flattened ...
Keep Reading »#MuslimRage, #Propaganda, #Empire
![[Subway ad, still from Innocence of Muslims.]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-10-06at10.39.07AM.png "[Subway ad, still from Innocence of Muslims.]")
I would like to address the ways in which paid advertisements recently mounted on the New York City public transportation system are connected to the release and circulation of the “Innocence of Muslims” video. Both are made legible through the now-hegemonic grammar of the War on Terror and an archive of Orientalist tropes and themes. It is that same grammar that scripts the protests and violence that erupted across Muslim majority states in reaction to the video (a reaction which was clearly hoped for and incited by the producers) as exercises in rage, a heightened emotional state that precludes rationality. Hatred and rage, we have been told by both the American ...
Keep Reading »Delivered into Enemy Hands: US-Led Abuse and Rendition of Opponents to Gaddafi's Libya
![[Image from below report by Human Rights Watch.]](/content_images/3/sm_libyarenditionhrw.png "[Image from below report by Human Rights Watch.]")
[The following report is the latest from Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the relationship between the US rendition program and the now-deposed Qaddafi regime.] When rebel forces overtook Tripoli in August 2011, prison doors were opened and office files exposed, revealing startling new information about Libya's relations with other countries. One such revelation, documented in this report, is the degree of involvement of the United States government under the Bush administration in the arrest of opponents of the former Libyan Leader, Muammar Gaddafi, living abroad, the subsequent torture and other ill-treatment of many of them in US custody, and their forced transfer to back ...
Keep Reading »Soul Searching for the Roots of White Supremacist Terror in the United States
![[Candles lit during a vigil in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Photo by Brianne O'Brien, via Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_7722892862_61db0b6543_z.jpg "[Candles lit during a vigil in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Photo by Brianne O'Brien, via Flickr.]")
I heard about what was unfolding in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, last Sunday when I saw the words “shooting” and “Sikh temple” on the screen of CNN as I walked into a hotel lobby. It felt like a punch in the stomach. Despite the lack of concrete information, I and other Sikhs who I talked with in those first few hours all knew in our guts what was happening: another hate attack. Sobbing in front of a computer screen in the hotel’s business center, I thought about how easily it could have been my parents' or my brother's gurdwara being attacked. I thought about how all gurdwaras are made up of my extended family members, and we were all targeted. I ...
Keep Reading »Press Release: International Delegation to Attend Trial of Ayse Berktay (Hacimirzaoglu) in Turkey
![[Ayse Berktay (Hacimirizaoglu). Image from WTI archive]](/content_images/3/sm_Screenshot2012-06-25at8.04.31AM.png "[Ayse Berktay (Hacimirizaoglu). Image from WTI archive]")
[The following press release was issued in English on 25 June 2012 by members of an international delegation that will observe the trial of Ayse Berktay.] Press Release International Delegation to Attend Trial of Ayse Berktay (Hacimirzaoglu) in Turkey During the past three years, the Turkish state has imprisoned some 8000 citizens under the guise of fighting terrorism. In a wave of detentions known as the “KCK operations,” it has targeted activists, academics, journalists, lawyers, students, elected officials, translators and publishers on account of their democratic activities in support of the rights demanded by Kurdish citizens in Turkey. In particular, numerous ...
Keep Reading »Which is Scarier? Terrorists or Superheroes?
![[Image from Wikipedia.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Oklahomacitybombing-DF-ST-96-00588.jpg "[Image from Wikipedia.]")
If you've caught the news lately, you will have noticed a terrorist plot was recently exposed in Greater Cleveland. Most of the community that is giving these five misguided self-proclaimed anarchists a second thought is wondering what on earth was motivating them and whether we should be worried about more homegrown discontent. If you ask the pundits who spend full time hours worrying about terrorism, though, the big threat to Cleveland isn't bomb plots. It's superheroes. The 99 are a multinational group of young crime fighters inspired by the 99 attributes of Allah (the merciful, the creator, the powerful, and so forth). There's a pretty ...
Keep Reading »The Malian Crisis Seen from Algeria
![[Tuareg soldiers holding the flag of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). Image by Jemal Oumar/Magharebia.]](/content_images/3/sm_120403Feature2Photo1.jpg "[Tuareg soldiers holding the flag of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). Image by Jemal Oumar/Magharebia.]")
The military blitz by rebels in Northern Mali is far from inconsequential for its Algerian neighbor. The hypothetical secession of the Azawad (in the northern half of Mali) is not viewed favorably in Algeria, to say the least. In addition to the threat of instability across the country's southern border, the Mouvement National de Libération de l’Azawad (MNLA) made the pragmatic choice to form a short-lived alliance with jihadists from Ansaar Eddine and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) during their offensive. Due to Algeria’s own recent history with terrorism, this relationship was viewed with great suspicion. The success of the Tuareg rebels and their allies ...
Keep Reading »Personalizing Civil Liberties Abuses - The Case of Dr. Al-Arian
![[US Supreme Court Building. Image from Wikipedia.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE.JPG "[US Supreme Court Building. Image from Wikipedia.]")
On Saturday, I was at the University of Chicago for an event to discuss humanitarian intervention and empire. One of my fellow speakers was Tariq Ramadan, the highly regarded Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford. He’s one of the world’s most accomplished scholars in his field. For almost six years — from 2004 until 2010 — Ramadan was banned from entering the U.S. In 2004, he had accepted a tenured position at Notre Dame University, but was forced to resign it when, nine days before he was to move with his family to Indiana, his visa was suddenly revoked by the State Department pursuant to the “ideological exclusion” provision of the PATRIOT Act. Ramadan ...
Keep Reading »The Draft Anti-Terrorism Law in Saudi Arabia: Legalizing the Abrogation of Civil Liberties
![[Saudi policemen form a check point near the site where a demonstration was expected to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 11 March 2011. Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]](/content_images/3/sm_police.jpg "[Saudi policemen form a check point near the site where a demonstration was expected to take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 11 March 2011. Hassan Ammar/AP Photo]")
In July 2011, Amnesty International published a leaked copy of the draft Saudi Arabian Penal Law for Terrorism Crimes and Financing of Terrorism. This Anti-Terror Law, which grants the Ministry of Interior unprecedented levels of authority and discretion in intelligence gathering, policing, and detention, has already been reviewed by the Security Committee of the Consultative Council (Majlis al-Shura) and the Committee of Experts in the Ministers’ Council, and awaits final approval for its enactment. Given the recent appointment of the Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdulaziz as the new Crown Prince, it seems likely that the law will soon be adopted. Widespread ...
Keep Reading »Jadaliyya Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Introduction
![[Reaper drone screen. Image from unknown archive.]](/content_images/3/sm_reaperdronekellan.jpg "[Reaper drone screen. Image from unknown archive.]")
[This is the first part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings. Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar.] On 5 March 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder delivered a speech in which he laid out the US position on law and national security. The second half of his speech was devoted to the targeted killing program, which has escalated dramatically during the Obama administration. Although the military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been engaged in such attacks for years, rarely have government officials acknowledged the ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (December 2012)
[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Occupations, Interventions,and Law (O.I.L.) Page. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of O.I.L.-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis and diversity that Jadaliyya strives for, but the views are solely the ones of their authors. If you are interested in contributing to Jadaliyya, send us your post ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Laleh Khalili (LK): In the course of completing my first book, I was performing some final interviews with Palestinian residents in Lebanon who had been detainees in Israel at various points over the last couple of decades. I was conducting these interviews when the news of Abu Ghraib tortures broke and pictures of detainees being held by ...
Keep Reading »The Agonies of Susan Rice: Gaza and the Negroponte Doctrine
In the dark of night, on 14 November, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. As elections in Israel are on the horizon, the Israeli Defense Force conducted an extra-judicial assassination of Hamas’ Ahmad Jabari, who only hours beforehand had received a draft of a permanent truce agreement with Israel (according to Nir Hasson at Haaretz). A barrage of Israeli aircraft and warships followed Jabari’s assassination. A few rockets were fired from Gaza, but ...
Keep Reading »Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan
[The following report was issued by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic at Stanford Law School and the Global Justice Clinic at the NYU School of Law.] Living Under Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to Civilians from US Drone Practices in Pakistan Executive Summary & Recommendations In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer by enabling ...
Keep Reading »Trying to Understand MUJWA
Since it first burst onto the scene in December 2011, the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (generally MUJWA in English, or MUJAO in French) has been a difficult group to pin down. The group was originally characterized as a “dissident” faction of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), though its actions have raised a number of possible contradictions and open questions (laid out admirably along with excellent background here, here, and here by Kal over ...
Keep Reading »Bulgaria Bombing Catches Country Unprepared
It has been almost two weeks since the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria, that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian, and the investigation has still not yielded answers. Foreign security agents and experts flooded the country to help local authorities trace the organisers. One newspaper alleged that the Israeli secret services have completely taken over the investigation and are blocking out their Bulgarian counterparts, which is putting in question whether the Bulgarian public will ever know the truth about ...
Keep Reading »The Demonization of Arabs and Muslims in the United States
In the below episode of Akhir Kalam [The Last Word], an Egyptian show featured on On TV, human rights attorney Lamis Deek discusses currentnamics dy of demonization, surveillience, and criminalization of Arab and Muslim communities in the United States.
Keep Reading »Another Take on 'The Malian Crisis as Seen from Algeria'
"The Malian crisis seen from Algeria," by Thomas Serres (19 April 2012) presents an analysis of Algerian perceptions of the upheaval in northern Mali. This analysis is insufficient in explaining Algerian behavior in response to the rebellion in northern Mali or to the March coup d’etat and misidentifies Algerian priorities in relation to the "Sahelo-Saharan Space" and Algeria’s relationships with extra-regional actors in the west. Additionally, its underlying ...
Keep Reading »Khalil al-Wazir: Paving the Way of Armed Struggle
It took Israeli intelligence over two decades and many assassination attempts before they managed to hunt down the PLO’s military mastermind Khalil al-Wazir. On the 24th anniversary of his death, Al-Akhbar recounts his story. When Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad) began his endeavor in the early 1950s, Israeli intelligence had no idea he existed. At the time, he was the twentysomething leader of the Palestinian al-Haq Brigade in Gaza. His family had been displaced from Ramleh in 1948. Back then, ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora
Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Junaid Rana (JR): My book was borne out of ethnographic research I completed on the role of labor migration in the global economy. I started with some basic questions: why do people become labor migrants, how does labor migration become transnational and global, what are the conditions that lead to labor migration, and how are labor migrants ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Targeted Killing: Lawyering and Targeted Killing
[This is the third part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the roundtable.] The practice now commonly termed “targeted killing” was, before the turn of the twenty-first century, referred to as “assassination.” Both terms refer to the lethal use of force in a ...
Keep Reading »Roundtable on Targeted Killing: A Meditation on Reciprocity and Self-Defense in Relation to Targeted Killing
[This is the second part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wessler, Pardiss Kabriaei, Leonard Small, and Lisa Hajjar. Click here for the introduction to the roundtable.] There is an emergent Israeli/American controversy on the lawfulness of targeted killing. Although the policy has not yet ripened into a national debate, in the United States at least it is ...
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