What do you think it means that there is no reporting from Kashmir by international media? That they no longer have reporters stationed there? That India has made it too dangerous to cover stories or too difficult to file stories? Journalism is a dangerous job, no more so than in war & occupation zones, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of journalists from trying, many of whom have been arrested or even killed.

Before Kashmiri activists on social media broke the decades-long news blackout, international media seldom reported on Kashmir & if they did put it in the rubric of a territorial dispute between Pakistan & India. They may use India’s telecommunications lockdown as an excuse to reestablish that situation. We have to stand in for those Kashmiris unable to speak & keep the occupation of Kashmir one of the most prominent issues in world politics. As Indian fascism & genocide goes, so goes fascism & genocide elsewhere.

In going back through my archives to cover photos with warning labels, the censors covered this one from a Gaza City beach in July 2014 just after four Palestinian boys were killed by Israeli bombers during the murderous seven-week bombing siege of Gaza that killed 2,300 Palestinians & injured 17,000. The UN reported that Israeli bombers directly targeted children in the siege.

Even though this photo has been shown millions of times on social media the censors not only covered the photo but took away the share button. They can cover the photo again but they cannot hide the reality of Israeli genocide.

Protests against India’s citizenship laws were organized last week in London, New York, Paris, Washington DC, Berlin, Geneva, The Hague, Barcelona, San Francisco, Tokyo, Amsterdam, & Melbourne.

https://scroll.in/latest/947405/citizenship-act-indian-diaspora-organises-protests-at-several-universities-in-us-uk-france?

This work is by my youngest sister Libby, an artist as well as an accomplished athlete. She took it from photographs of Native Americans commissioned at the turn of the 20th century by the new anthropology museums in the US to document Native Americans before their final extermination. The photos are magnificent but also glorified images since at that time they were forced to live in squalor on reservations. The political intent of these portraits was malignant & genocidal but they show the proud dignity & beauty of Native Americans in spite of that. The social history of these portraits matters. But then so much of art has a troubled social history, most prominently misogyny & colonialism.

A Palestinian mother protecting her child from arbitrary arrest was assaulted by an Israeli soldier & sustained these injuries.

(Photo via Moneeb Saada)

Protest in Heidelberg, Germany on Friday, December 26th, against the discriminatory citizenship law of the Indian government. Some also addressed the nearly five months of lockdown in Kashmir.

(Photo by Lina Ewald)

Front Page: Septuagenarian trader Haji Hamid Hasan recalls how nearly 30 policemen, some in plainclothes, broke into his house on Friday and went on the rampage in Muzaffarnagar town, telling them ‘You’ve only two places to go: Pakistan or the graveyard’.

https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/youve-only-two-places-pakistan-or-kabristan/cid/1730395