Ethnic Cleansing

Chagos - conservation and humanity can go hand in hand

by Magnus Johnson

Co-authored with Richard Dunne

Chagos Islanders were evicted from their homeland in the early 70s to make way for a US military base.  The UK... more Chagos Islanders were evicted from their homeland in the early 70s to make way for a US military base.  The UK government argues that there is a need for a large MPA in the Indian Ocean, seeminly without regard for human rights.

Forced Migrations in Central European History

by Dariusz Stola

Should Marijuana laws be relax through Natural Law

by Robert Silva

Poncho VIlla smoke pot to heal the masses, Marijuana was research as a medicine and demonized when it heal the wrong people could be asserted.

It is looking at practices of territory when new imperial regime takes over. Looking at Mexico as historical practices... more It is looking at practices of territory when new imperial regime takes over. Looking at Mexico as historical practices in the Western United States, looking at laws a clauzwitz method of conquering versus practice at hand. Propaganda, strategic, and medicine.

Internal displacement, migration, and policy in northeastern India

by Uddipana Goswami

Armed in Northeast India: Special Powers, Act or No Act

by Uddipana Goswami

The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA) forms the core of the Indian Government’s relationship with the... more The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA) forms the core of the Indian Government’s relationship with the Northeast region. Fifty years after its inception violence in the region is increasing rather than decreasing. While the AFSPA is central to the ways the state relates to citizens in the region and has been a major catalyst for increasing violence, this paper will not treat the AFSPA as the sole instance of the Indian state’s skewed security regime in the Northeast region, but will instead argue that the act is only a symptom of a larger malaise characterised by alienation, militarisation, and a dangerous counter-insurgency strategy. The fallout has been not merely a brutalisation of the security forces, but a legitimisation of violence. A vicious cycle has been set in motion punctuated by three main dynamics: violence giving birth to more violence, brutalisation eroding ideologies, and state-sanctioned terror engendering a disregard for peaceful alternatives. It is argued that unless the Indian state bases its approach to the region on a proper understanding of the nationalistic aspirations and indigenous and ethnic identities of the people there, this cycle cannot be stopped.

Las raíces del apartheid en Palestina: La judaización del territorio durante el Mandato británico

by Ferran Izquierdo

The Roots of the Apartheid in Palestine: The Jewification of the Territory during the British Mandate ( Abstract)more The Roots of the Apartheid in Palestine: The Jewification of the Territory during the British Mandate ( Abstract)

The Zionist colonization of Palestine was, from the beginning, an ethnically-based nationalist project that sought to separate and expel the Palestinian population. The creation of a state for the Jewish people demanded a “cleansed” territory in which Jewish immigrants could settle. The land was obtained with the conquests of 1947-8 and the expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians. However, the foundations of the future state were laid before, mainly during the Mandate. The dynamics of ethnic cleansing, as with apartheid, began with the colonization at the end of the 19th century and increased under the British Mandate. In a previous article I analyzed the dimension of the defence of Jewish labour, and in this one I shall deal with the process of the Jewification of the territory.
Key words: zionism, Israel, Palestine, mandate, ethnic cleansing, colonization.

Sionismo y separación étnica en Palestina durante el Mandato británico: la defensa del trabajo judío

by Ferran Izquierdo

Zionism and Ethnic Separation in Palestine during the Mandate: the defence of Jewish Labour (Abstract)

The... more Zionism and Ethnic Separation in Palestine during the Mandate: the defence of Jewish Labour (Abstract)

The Zionist project in Palestine was accompanied by a process whereby the native population was separated and, where possible, expelled. On the one hand, this was the consequence of Zionist ideology that sought the creation of an ethnic state for the Jewish people, and, on the other, of the victory of the Zionist left over private capital. The former defended a “white” colonial project with the substitution of the native population by Europeans, while business interests would have preferred a classic colonial model exploiting Palestinian labour. The ethnic separation contained two interrelated dimensions: the defence of Jewish labour and territorial ethnic cleansing. In this article, I shall analyze the ideological bases of the separation and the dynamic of the imposition of Jewish labour.
Key words: zionism, Israel, Palestine, Mandate, ethnic cleansing, colonization.

El movimiento sionista ante la partición de Palestina

by Ferran Izquierdo

The sionist movement and the partition of Palestine (Abstract)

The territory and the ethnic homogeneity... more The sionist movement and the partition of Palestine (Abstract)

The territory and the ethnic homogeneity were the two basic factors that conducted the Zionists on their political project of Israel's State foundation and on the partition of Palestine. The Zionist Movement aimed at the control of the whole historic region of Palestine thus the construction of a State for the Jewish people required the cleansing of other ethnies from this space. Both leftist and rightist Zionists coincided on their ambitions to gain the whole territory of Palestine, however the pragmatism of the social-zionism headed by Ben Gurion and the UN partition plan induced the movement to the acceptance of resolution 181. This acceptance of the partition did not mean that the Zionist movement renounced to the foundational aspirations, and the 1947-1948 war permitted the advance to the original territorial objectives and the expulsion of the population.
Key words: Palestine, Israel, zionism, partition, ethnic cleansing.