Author: Judith Deutsch
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Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada
Independent Jewish Voice Canada (IJV) has applauded Human Rights Watch and B’Tselem for declaring Israel an apartheid state in its treatment of Palestinians. However, neither organization included medical apartheid in … Keep reading »
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Decolonizing Israel: Jeff Halper’s Political Strategy
What is to be done about Israel to stop what is being done to Palestinians? As just reported in the Guardian, “Domestic politics in Israel has lurched far to the … Keep reading »
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Israel at the Current Global Juncture
How does Israel fit in with current global emergencies and unprecedented dangers, those being the worsening provision of food, water, shelter, and healthcare for the global population, the COVID-19 pandemic … Keep reading »
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Child Emergency: Souls in ICE
Reeling from the US election, I hope that the first order of business is reuniting families and restoring children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody to their parents. A … Keep reading »
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Nuclear Weapons and Extreme Threats
A Tale of Two Men Handling Emergency One man reacted to emergency and the other one didn’t. The two men are Richard Feynman (1918 – 1988), the highly revered Nobel Prize … Keep reading »
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The Mass Psychopathy of Shamelessness: From Israel to the UN
Why write about sadism and shamelessness now? Because it’s worse, it’s complex and its causes and effects need to be better understood. Its physical and psychological manifestations are day-to-day, uninhibited, … Keep reading »
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COVID-19 in Gaza
The Covid-19 pandemic is confronting governments around the world with an emergency health situation, requiring self-isolation, population lockdowns of many economic activities and households, mass virus testing, screening and hospitalizations, … Keep reading »
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Are Climate and Disaster Victims Violent?
Klare’s Paean to the American Military Michael T. Klare’s new book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, is an uncritical paean to the American military. He credits … Keep reading »
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COP-Out: The Military and Climate Change/Justice
The world situation is much worse than generally acknowledged. This December, the coinciding meetings of NATO and of the climate change Conference of the Parties (COP25) were barely reported, much … Keep reading »
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Global Israel
Securocratic War, Securocratic Borders, Securocratic Emissions Globally, human societies are veering toward the precipice of a cascading extinction event that is traceable to 20th century wars and to accelerated dangers following … Keep reading »
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Ways of Seeing Children: The Facile Psychology of Capitalism
The majesty and burning of the child’s death…After the first death, there is no other. – Dylan Thomas The sniper who shot at Muhammad the childBeneath his father’s armWasn’t acting … Keep reading »
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Lessons for the Climate Emergency
Rationing, Moratoriums, Ending War “The bad news is that if history teaches us one thing, it is that there never has been an energy transition… The history of energy is not … Keep reading »