A case for BDS by other means.
Turkey-Russia spat is a symptom of different, often incompatible agendas.
While the French president has won public approval and international backing for the fight against IS, differences persist about the necessity of coordinating with Russia.
Why do western media call a barbaric terrorist group the ‘Islamic State’ when it is neither Islamic nor a state?
However groundless the Sykes-Picot Agreement, is a Balkanisation of Syria and Iraq really the way forward?
A politics of blame, of ‘us’ versus ‘them’, serves only to endorse ISIS’s Manichean worldview. Only an ethos of intercultural dialogue can help produce the "strange multiplicity" that an irreversibly multiethnic Europe so urgently needs.
Palestinian activists are faced with knowing that their unarmed resistance, whilst it has attracted international civil society support, has failed to exercise any leverage over Israel.
Until the war ends and concerted international efforts to rebuild Syria and Iraq are implemented, the root causes of mass displacement will remain.
Concerned professionals may need to move beyond their accustomed professional roles to support a genuine transformation in Israel and occupied Palestine that respects the human needs and rights of all who live there.
This risky experiment in power projection continues traditional Russian policy in the region, but also departs from the careful manoeuvring aimed at exploiting confusion in US and European policies.
ISIS has emerged from the wounds of the Arab world—for which the west is to a large extent responsible—and current airstrikes are pouring salt into these wounds.
