@selzero people who believe that the God they worship literally WAS a #Palestinian#refugee, who fled from Judea via #Gaza into Egypt to escape persecutors who were massacring children, and yet who look at the current #massacre of Palestinian children in Gaza and think "hell yes! Let's give #Israel more weapons."
@DrALJONES This points out Israeli Gov’s “methodology”.
Gee, guess we shouldn’t have supported #netanyahu
“If the agency no longer exists, argues Israel, then the #refugee issue must no longer exist, & the legitimate right for #palestinian refugees to return to their land will be unnecessary. #israel has denied that right of return since the late 1940s, even though its own membership of the #un was made conditional upon Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to their homes & land.”
As Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council notes the UK's #refugee & migrant 'crisis' 'is about who we are as a country & who we want to be. It is about standing up for the right to asylum, giving people a fair hearing & treating them with the dignity & humanity they deserve'!
The #Tories are the worst of us, default to inhumanity for all except their chums & lack any compassion for those in danger (again unless its their chums).
'There are substantial grounds for believing that the removal of the claimants to Rwanda would expose them to a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement' [repatriation to the countries from which they fled].
Unfortunately for the #Tory right (but likely to be ignored by them) the ruling is not only based on our membership of the #ECHR, but on a range of international commitments & a decisive intervention by the UN Refugee Agency.
The #UnitedStates has allowed >40k #refugees into the country in the first 5 months of the fiscal yr after they passed a rigorous, often yearslong, #screening process that includes #security & #medical#vetting & interviews w/ American officers overseas.
Ben Sharrock’s critically adored #film Limbo is a wry, funny &poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship &hope of the #refugee experience.
Crannie Community centre #Edinburgh#Scotland is screening Limbo, Fri 15 Sept. There will be discussion following the film …with refreshments !
#Israel bombed the densely-populated #Jabalya#refugee camp in northern #Gaza for the 2nd time in 2 days Wednesday, prompting warnings of #WarCrimes by the UN #HumanRights Council (#OHCHR) & some nations took diplomatic measures & condemned Israel’s offensive in the besieged enclave.
In this article for @medium I write the history of the millions of displaced persons left in DP camps for years as they waited for a country to take them in because they were afraid to go home to a totalitarian regime.
New instance, new #introduction: Hello! I'm Abdi 👋🏾 Software engineer/data scientist in NYC. Former #refugee. Lover of greenery/gardens, board games, #movies, #cycling, autumn, Japanese food, and #tea. Fortunate to have done a lot of #travel
Every one of the contributing writers to The Uncaged Voice — Stories by Writers in Exile has escaped arrest and torture in countries where #FreedomOfThePress and expression is more aspirational than realized.
The #refugee crisis, the #climate crisis and the crisis of late stage financialized capitalism are inextricably intertwined. We are experiencing the inevitable collapse of the prior globalized financial neo-liberal system which itself was built on the collapse of the post-war social democratic system. We now seem to be witnessing the replacement off globalozed neo-liberal system with a militarized oligarchic politics built on foundations of sand.