Perhaps I was naïve, believing in goodness, kindness, the essential decency and fairness of humanity and its ability to create great works of art, engage with issues of justice and morality, develop science and medicine, practise love and sacrifice, and being open to feelings of transcendence in the presence of truth and beauty. Israel’s war […]
Racism
Israel’s Brutal Harvest
Injustice provides hollow foundations for the establishment of a state. Israel has always had the choice to pursue peaceful, social and economic pathways to live in some kind of amity with those they had dispossessed, no matter how contentious, bitter or complex the process. Israel could have chosen to engage in bridge-building, conciliation, compromise, co-existence, […]
“Nowhere Safe & Hospitals are a Warzone”
I do not believe in violence. Not as an instrument of justice, nor as a form of strength. Violence has plagued our planet for centuries and created every ill known to humanity: generational suffering, enmity, torture, hostility, racism, poverty, death, destruction, hunger, starvation, disease, homelessness, refugeehood and much more. Violence is not based on reason […]
Black Lives Matter: A Letter to British-Asians
“I can’t breathe,” has echoed around the world. Millions of people have watched the video, their horror growing with each interminable, never-ending, horrific minute, as Derek Chauvin sits at ease, a knee digging into George Floyd’s neck, a hand causally resting in a trouser pocket, looking for all the world, as if he’s just passing […]