by Richard Falk We are delighted to crosspost this piece from Global Justice in the 21st Century, the blog of JWE Board Member Richard Falk. The following is the foreword …
Adding Fuel to Fire: The Politics of Power Outages in Gaza
by Yousef Aljamal This following piece, by Palestinian rights activist, author and translator Yousef Aljamal is crossposted from Politics Today In late June 2006, and soon after Palestinian factions captured …
Reflections on Genocide as the Ultimate Crime
by Richard Falk and Alfred de Zayas This piece is crossposted from Global Justice in the 21st Century, the blog of JWE Board Member Richard Falk and was originally featured on CounterPunch. …
The pandemic’s savage political revelations, from the U.S. to Palestine
Much of the analysis of COVID-19 and Palestine examines the pandemic through a political lens.
Who matters? Pandemic in a time of structural violence
Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic as it impacts Israel/Palestine provides us with a unique case study of the realities of health care and public health in a racialized and unequal society.
Horizons (temporal, geopolitical, & otherwise) on Covid-19
There are, it seems to me, two distinct kinds of horizon that anyone considering the effects of Covid-19 on global politics and society needs to look at.
Triple Jeopardy: Refugees/Migrants/ Palestinian Prisoners
Recently reflecting on the plight of refugees fleeing war zones in the Middle East and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Central America I was struck by the analogy to ‘double jeopardy.’
World Order and the COVID-19 pandemic
Given the urbanization and social complexity accompanying modernity, the need for intelligent, imaginative, and humane governance is a necessity in times of societal crisis, and its absence magnifies suffering.
Richard Falk’s amicus brief to the International Criminal Court
Richard Falk, Just World Educational Board Member and international law scholar, filed an amicus curiae brief with the International Criminal Court on March 16, 2020.