Tag: Ilan Pappe
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Bookshop to bookshop railway
Or, what I did on my holidays We had booked a week in Settle. The aim was to ride up and down the Settle to Carlisle railway, finding great Yorkshire walks and interesting bookshops and above all, avoiding the internet and all things work and big-media related. We succeeded, and I came home feeling renewed.…
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Complicated?
I still see people around social media saying ‘it’s complicated’. I still see them pointing out creases and chasms in the history of Palestine which they use to suggest firstly, it’s hard to see who Palestine ‘belongs to’ and secondly – and incredibly – that this difficulty means they can’t roundly oppose mass killing, displacement,…
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On being killed by politicians
It’s happening all over the world. There are several countries in Africa where people are currently yelling for attention to mass murders — but we in the bit of the world that calls itself The West are used to hearing about death in Africa. We ignore mass murder in Africa and, until recently, when the…
Kay Green 