Western leftist comrades, you failed your Levantine fellows.
We knew that the Syrian crisis would be the ultimate test. However, the Palestinian and Ukrainian issues had already given us the chance to recognize the Orientalism that permeates Western leftist circles. The genocide of our Palestinian brothers and sisters had...
Anti-Arab hatred and white supremacy, the seeds of Zionism
This article, authored by an individual whose personal trajectory has been deeply influenced by his family history, employs a rigorously anti-fascist and anti-authoritarian analytical framework to argue that Zionism is historically rooted in traditions of white and Germanic supremacist thought.
2023 – In southern Syria, the uprising of Dignity has begun
More than ten years after the uprising of 2011, the revolt has resumed in southern Syria. As in 2011, the mainstream media are not reporting much on it, as if popular uprisings in this region were only of interest if they coincided with the interests of the states that have been working to carve up the Middle East since the Sykes-Picot agreements in 1916. This time, the revolt started in Suwayda, the Druze governorate, in the middle of August and spread modestly to other towns, notably in the neighboring governorate of Dera’a. This text offers a contextualization on Syria in general and on Suwayda in particular.
After almost ten years of nightmare, the Syrian people gets back in the dance of revolt
Since Friday, at first timidly and then with growing fervor, the population has once again dared to defy the authorities, taking to the streets and chanting the refrain that so infuriated the idiot who has served as Syria’s president for far too long: “Yalla irhal ya Bashar!”
Palestine, 2014: War from the other side of the wall
At the end of June 2014, I traveled to Palestine for the second time, less than nine months after having to interrupt my previous trip to see my father before he died. Little did I know that just a few days after my arrival, a new war would break out.
Palestine 2013: First encounter with colonial reality
About the author: Cédric Domenjoud is an independent researcher and activist based in Europe. His research areas focus on exile, political violence, colonialism, and community self-defense, particularly in Western Europe, the former USSR, and the Levant. He is...