Assadists, who deny the Rohingya genocide, support Duterte’s vigilante war against the urban poor, & either support or deny concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims in China, are now calling for concentration camps for journalists like Amy Goodman on Democracy Now who reported on Assad’s secret gulag. The inevitable convergence of Stalinism with fascism. The question is, how long before erstwhile progressives disavow association with these detestable political forces? Or will they never?

Israeli human rights activists in Tel Aviv protest Eurovision 2019 & call for honoring the cultural boycott of Israel.

(Photo on May 14, 2019 from CNN)

Madonna is apparently planning on-stage grandstanding in her performance at Eurovision tonight by making a worthless statement about ‘dialogue’ & ‘inclusivity’ to justify croaking out a few of her banal songs for apartheid & genocide. To show how committed she is to dialogue & inclusivity & to get into the apartheid groove she arrived in Tel Aviv a few days early so she could party & go nightclubbing. We hope she had a good time since henceforward her name will always be associated not with inclusivity but with racism & genocide.

(Photo of Madonna entering Tel Aviv nightclub on May 16, 2019 by Amir Meiri/YNet/Pplus/Reuters)

The ninth president of Israel swore that he would be “faithful & loyal to the government of Palestine.”

From the 2018 “liberation” of Eastern Ghouta by Syrian & Russian bombers, now being repeated in Idlib & Hama.

Portrait of Russian & Syrian ‘liberation’ of Eastern Ghouta by barrel bombs & chlorine: or as Assad’s corral of hired propagandists would put it, crisis actors forced to play dead & foam at the mouth on cue. As the corrupt antiwar & socialist movements would put it, this carnage of children is necessary to protect Assad’s right to national sovereignty against US regime-change. Meanwhile children die bereft in the public streets because somewhere in Syria, the principles of solidarity & opposition to war got bombed to smithereens when Stalinism allied with fascism.

The only principled demands are for the immediate cessation of bombing & the immediate, unconditional withdrawal of all foreign military forces from Syria.

(Photo is from Eastern Ghouta in mid-March 2018. Photographer not identified but in several Arab publications.)

Protests last year in Kashmir in solidarity with Palestinians, part of a tradition of solidarity among Kashmiris.
Kashmir stands with Palestinians: there were protests today, including confrontations with occupation forces, at Nowhatta in Srinigar against the massacre of unarmed protesters in Gaza. There will be other protests today in Kashmir in solidarity with Palestinians. Palestinians & Kashmiris are kindred in occupation & resistance.

(Photo by Basit Zargar)