Les Palestiniens devront faire face à la plus dure des vérités : quelle que soit la voie qu'ils choisissent – la soumission silencieuse ou la résistance armée –, le monde a déjà échoué à empêcher le génocide de leur peuple. C'est un fait irréversible. « Les mots n'ont plus aucun sens. » C'est l'un des sentiments les plus courants que j'entends de mes proches, amis et collègues qui sont encore à Gaza. Deux ans après le génocide implacable perpétré par Israël, il ne nous reste plus (…)

[pétition soutenue notamment par l'Atelier féministe (Lviv) et Sphère association de femmes (Kharkiv)] Au nom des femmes ukrainiennes, nous vous proposons de soutenir l'initiative visant à instaurer le 8 décembre comme Journée du mouvement féministe ukrainien. Le 8 décembre est une date historique dans l'histoire du mouvement féministe ukrainien. Ce jour-là, en 1884, à Stanislavov (aujourd'hui Ivano-Frankivsk), à l'initiative de la fondatrice du mouvement féministe Natalia Kobrinska, la (…)

The cultural boycott of Israel is gaining momentum. Artists around the world are increasingly refusing to collaborate with Israeli institutions, which they view as complicit in the occupation of Palestine. In Czechia, this movement has gained little traction. Photo Petr Zewlakk Vrabec / Alarm “Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate for international artists to perform in South Africa, in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity, it would be (…)

Pro-Israel groups and Buddhist extremists are expanding Israeli influence in Sri Lanka, stoking anti-Muslim sentiment as the government maintains ambivalence around Palestine and the Gaza genocide Mohamed Suhail, a 21-year-old student, was searching for lodgings in the Colombo suburb of Dehiwala on 23 October 2024 when a mobile police unit arrested him near Israeli consular premises. His supposed offence was not carrying his national identity card. A magistrate ordered his release after (…)

In Romania, Poland, Hungary and Czechia, far-right and populist parties are cynically using Ukrainian refugees as a political football. It mirrors what is happening in the west of the continent with non-European immigration. Over six million Ukrainians have settled elsewhere in Europe since Russia's full-scale invasion of their country in February 2022. Approximately 4.3 million have been granted temporary protection. This allows them to reside and work freely in European Union member (…)

A military decree has brought the villages of Nabi Samwil, Beit Iksa and Khalaila under 'seam zone' rule, from which all Palestinians but local residents are banned. But actually, for 20 years a raft of edicts like this one have been harassing locals, who now fear for their fate An Israeli army checkpoint near Nabi Samwil in the West Bank. Credit: Yahel Gazit Piles of garbage and ruined cars with flat tires stand between new cars welcoming visitors to a small village northwest of (…)