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Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, September 16, 2021 19:08 - 0 Comments
Analysis | The Girl in the Mirror: On Media Representations and Aesthetics of Shamima Begum
Shamima Begum has become the repository of Britain's self-mythology around the ‘dangers’ of having so many of 'them’ amongst 'us', writes Fatima Rajina.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, July 19, 2021 10:27 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Diversity of Tactics is Not a Compromise – it’s Praxis!
The dichotomy between violence and non-violence is not a moral or logical one, but rather is rooted in differences of power that can be challenged and transformed through diversity of tactics, argues Nora Ziegler.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 11, 2021 20:05 - 8 Comments
Analysis | Israel’s occupation and expulsion of Palestinians in Jerusalem violate International Law
As Palestinian civilians continue to resist Israel's ongoing military occupation, world governments and media must confront their own complicity in Israel's persistent violations of international law, writes Jasmine K. Gani.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, February 17, 2021 13:59 - 0 Comments
Analysis | The latest Prevent Review is a political charade, we must boycott it
The UK government’s latest review of its Prevent strategy is not only a political facade but a trojan horse to expand the programme. We must be united in our call for disengagement from it, and to demand nothing less than Prevent’s abolishment, argues Na’eem Ibn Farooq.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, January 21, 2021 16:00 - 0 Comments
Ideas | An End to Myth: For a New American Language
As the 2020 US elections have shown, national mythology remains at the heart of American identity and a bulwark of the status quo. For meaningful change, we need a new American language, writes Benjamin Parisi.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 9, 2020 8:51 - 0 Comments
Analysis | PREVENT’s cheerleaders fear intellectual scrutiny, for good reason
Attempts to demonise serious intellectual critiques of the UK Government's counter-extremism programme are not just vacuous but dangerous, argues Dr Layla Aitlhadj.
Editor's Desk, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, July 22, 2020 16:38 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Strained Solidarities: On (re)building a mass anti-racist movement in Britain
Anti-racist activists in the UK must eschew stale debates over terminology and representation, and instead focus on building a movement rooted in structural knowledge and powered by cross-communal solidarity, write Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi.
Editor's Desk, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Monday, June 29, 2020 14:10 - 0 Comments
Ideas | ‘Counter-Terrorism’ is a dangerous myth, it is high time we abolished it
At a moment when demands for police and prison abolition have travelled from the radical fringes into mainstream prominence, the radical social transformation that we seek requires nothing less than the abolition of the category of ‘terrorism’ altogether and the dismantling of the global counter-terrorism infrastructure, writes Eda Seyhan.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, June 25, 2020 14:56 - 0 Comments
Ideas | On The Politics of Window Smashing: Black Lives Matter and White Allyship
Self-described white allies must stop indulging in facile, exploitative narratives surrounding the BLM protests, writes Jamie Ranger.
Editor's Desk, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, June 10, 2020 15:21 - 2 Comments
Ideas | Making It Count: Resisting the Authority of Ignorance
We are governed by pathological liars, buffoons, and brutish aristocrats, yet they keep getting away with it. Just what will it take to make the truth count and hold them accountable? Asks Sita Balani.
