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NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang blasted for comparing BDS to ‘fascist boycotts’ by Sheren Khalel

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Abukar Arman, a political analyst and former diplomat, said Yang’s stance was “a stupid moral equivalence”. Arman said that the BDS movement, which has grown increasingly popular on college campuses over the years, “is the only mechanism available to people of conscience to hold [the] last apartheid regime in the world” accountable for its 70 years of “systematic genocide”. 

Continue reading at https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/andrew-yang-nyc-mayoral-candidate-bds

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Elie Wiesel: Paradoxical Legacy of a ‘Human Rights Icon’ by Abukar Arman

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If intensely crafted and passionately spoken words were the only measurement of greatness of the soul, tenderness of the heart, and love for humanity, then Elie Wiesel indeed deserved all accolades awarded to him. But we must match words with deeds. Wiesel was the tender façade of ruthless Zionism, the royal advocate of the Apartheid-like state of Israel, and a prominent enabler of systematic genocide of the Palestinian people by making life unbearable or by uprooting them to make space for settler expansion.

Continue reading at http://intpolicydigest.org/2016/07/13/elie-wiesel-paradoxical-legacy-of-a-human-rights-icon/

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On Gaza, genocide, and impunity by Abukar Arman

To understand why what happened in Darfur is officially considered genocide and Israel’s brutal ethnic-cleansing of the Palestinian people is not, one must read Mahmood Mamdani’s The Politics of Naming. As he explains: “It seems that genocide has become a label to be stuck on your worst enemy, a perverse version of the Nobel Prize, part of a rhetorical arsenal that helps you vilify your adversaries while ensuring impunity for your allies.” As much as Israel is trying to misrepresent what it is doing in Palestine and move away from the word “genocide”, it is clear that its strategy is failing.

Continue reading at http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/07/gaza-genocide-impunity-2014726165648879608.html

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‘Moral blackmail’ still stifles debate on Israel by Abukar Arman

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Fast forward to present day. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled “On Gaza, Genocide, and Impunity”. Immediately upon its publication, I started receiving hate emails. This time they all seem to object my usage of the word “genocide” to describe the suffering of the Palestinian people. 

Continue reading at https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/8/16/moral-blackmail-still-stifles-debate-on-israel/