PALESTINE WILL BE FREE

their targeting of Ahmed is absolutely unconscionable. how are you going to target a disabled kid who is being starved by a genocidal entity?? how do you get to the point of bullying someone who is only barely surviving?

(Quds)

A group of Israelis entered the Palestinian-owned Lava Sweets & Café in Keflavík, Iceland, on August 15, threatening and verbally abusing an employee before removing a picture of Palestine from the wall.

The café says its Google reviews were also targeted in what appears to be an organized attempt to damage its rating and reputation.

The attack comes amid reports of hundreds of threatening messages sent to people in Iceland, raising urgent questions over whether authorities are doing enough to protect those facing intimidation and harassment.

Organisations representing Adivasi and Indigenous communities have urged the United Nations to address India’s refusal to formally recognise Adivasis as Indigenous Peoples under international law, despite identifying more than 125 million citizens as Scheduled Tribes within the country.

The Adivasi Mahasabha Foundation, India Indigenous Peoples, Adivasi Samanvay Manch, Indigenae Global Confederation, Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (North East Zone), Bodo National Students Union and Indian Social Institute raised the issue at the 19th Session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The session was held from 13 to 17 July at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

Through a series of statements, the groups raised concerns over the exclusion of Adivasis from formal participation in UN bodies, violations of community consent in mining and development projects, legislative inaction, threats to Indigenous languages and the use of Indigenous knowledge in artificial intelligence.

Their interventions covered Indigenous participation at the UN, the approaching twentieth anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the future work of the Expert Mechanism, follow-up to its previous studies, proposals to the UN Human Rights Council and the protection of Indigenous languages.

The groups said India could not continue operating one of the world’s largest systems of tribal, Indigenous and Adivasi recognition domestically while refusing to recognise the same communities as Indigenous Peoples internationally.

India identifies more than 125 million citizens as Scheduled Tribes and provides a constitutional framework for their governance under the Fifth and Sixth Schedules. However, according to the groups, the country has refused to formally recognise its Adivasi population as Indigenous Peoples under international law for nearly two decades after voting in favour of UNDRIP in 2007.

“The state cannot have it both ways,” the statements said.

The groups also referred to the 2011 Supreme Court observation by Justices Katju and Mishra in Kailash & Others vs. State of Maharashtra that “all Indians are indigenous.” They described the position as a legal fiction that erases the distinction between first peoples and later settlers.

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Yes, here is an excellent compilation of articles for Iraq

Neither an article or book, but I highly recommend this documentary: The Blood of My Brother, it is an invaluable look into the Iraqi struggle against the u.s. occupation. I first watched it in 2008 and it was life changing, my favorite documentary.

Here is an article on Afghanistan I read in a magazine a really long time ago, I still have that magazine somewhere. In no way do I support the Taliban, but I consider seeing the u.s. lose a war in my lifetime a blessing.

I don't have any book recommendations that aren't regurgitating state department propaganda sadly :/