Tag: Israel Genocide in Gaza
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Stormy Skies, Stronger Resolve: Kolkata’s Powerful Stand for Palestine
Kolkata: When the rain comes, you might have heard the rhyme “Rain, Rain, Go Away,” as children want to play or someone needs to work. But on Friday, on the streets of Kolkata, nobody questioned why the rain started because hundreds of participants were determined to protest against Israelis who have been bombing the people…
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Satyagraha and Slaughter: Finkelstein’s Journey from Gandhi’s Remembrance to Gaza’s Reality
s I turned the last page of Norman Finkelstein’s GAZA: An Inquest into its Martyrdom, news poured in that Israel had bombed a Gaza food aid site where a crowd of thousands was waiting desperately for food assistance. 112 people were killed and 760 injured. 4 more kids also died of starvation and dehydration in…
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Challenging the Myth: Debunking Herzl’s ‘Land without People’ Narrative
Glimpses of the history of Zionism Unfortunately, very few Zionist leaders paid heed to anti-colonial and universalist-humanist voices like Tagore and chose to follow the footsteps of their European anti-semitic tormentors. Theodore Herzl an Austro-Hungarian intellectual and journalist of the late 19th Century was the father of Zionism or in today’s parlance, political Judaism, like…
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What was Tagore’s Palestine Dream?
he ongoing genocide in Gaza– aerial bombardment and ground invasion in the 17 sq. miles small strip of besieged land at the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and a smaller part of residual Palestine, long occupied by the Zionist Israeli State led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu– has already surpassed the horrors of Guernica, epitomized…
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Stop genocide, bombing on hospitals: Kolkata doctors rally for Gaza
Kolkata: On Monday, doctors and healthcare staff Kolkata chose to hold a rally demanding an immediate ceasefire in Palestine. While, doctors hitting the streets might be a rare sight, the participating practitioners maintained that they had no option but to organise a rally to send out a loud message that the attack on healthcare infrastructure…
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India’s Third Largest City Embraces ‘Boycott of Israeli Products’
Kolkata: There is an old age proverb that what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow, has been proven right once again. As in against the barbarism of Israel in Palestine, the call for a complete boycott of Israeli and American products has got an overwhelming response from Kolkata residents. The Concerned Citizens of Kolkata, has…
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Call of humanity: Join 7 Days 7 Products Boycott to save innocent lives in Palestine
Kolkata: It has been 37 days since Hamas attacked Israel. In the attack, around two hundred Israeli soldiers were killed and the same number of civilians were made hostages by the resistance group. Thereafter the barbarism of Israel began and so far around 12000 Palestinians have been killed including 5000 children. The brutality of Israel…
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Amid Diwali, Bhim Army Protests Against Israel’s Genocide in Palestine
Kolkata: While the rest of India celebrated Diwali, members of the Bhim Army in West Bengal marched through the streets of Kolkata to protest against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine. Since October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel, resulting in the death of hundreds of soldiers and the kidnapping of around 200 civilians, Israel has reportedly…
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Kids hit Kolkata streets to remind the world that Israel is conducting genocide against children
Kolkata: Rina Das Basu, a retired school teacher, traveled 45 kilometers from North 24 Parganas to the state capital, Kolkata, to participate in a protest rally organized by 18 different organizations against the ongoing genocide by Israeli in Palestine. Basu didn’t journey alone; she was accompanied by four of her current students, aged 9 to…
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Root of Israel-Palestine conflict lies in Zionist expansion, suppression of Palestinians
With the Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, Israel and Palestine have plunged into yet another war. The cruelty of both attacks is beyond words, and as always in such wars, common people on both sides are suffering the most. In the aftermath of Hamas’s attack on Israel, the major Western powers – America,…