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‘The intellectual community should think about the potential of their becoming complicit inciters of a second wave of mass ethnic cleansing of the stateless Bedoun, due to the false images they have helped to create. As scholars, we can act with more care, realising that we are speaking about real people and not simply a political value unwanted by certain sectors of Kuwaiti society who…

Has Kuwait’s anti-Bedouin anti-Bedoun policy gone overboard? Kuwait’s history of ethnic cleansing

Kuwait has a history of ethnic cleansing: read all about it in Human Right’s Watch report A Victory Turned Sour. Now that Kuwaitis have lamented the driving out of the Palestinian population, will they learn from the experience to prevent the further expulsion of the stateless Bedoun?  The Bedoun are, after all – their own people. Read about the killing, disappearance, beating, torture and…

Most prominently this manifests in arguments such as ‘there are no real Bedouins (tribal people) in Kuwait, because they have permanently settled and the Badu are only a political entity.’  Do they know the Bedouin are the majority of the population?  Yeah, ok… so what is the problem here? Professor Abdullah Alhajeri (2004) at Kuwait University has studied these false claims as an expression of…

Most prominently this manifests in arguments such as ‘there are no real Bedouins (tribal people) in Kuwait, because they have permanently settled and the Badu are only a political entity.’ Professor Abdullah Alhajeri (2004) at Kuwait University has studied these false claims as an expression of social elitism among some members of Kuwaiti society. However, there is really little excuse for…

This is a continuation of a series of posts on recent propaganda produced to humiliate the stateless Bedoun of Kuwait.  The previous post concerned the Lowy Institute’s false claims about the stateless Bedoun by journalist Annaliise McCauliff. These kinds are ‘knowledge’ claims made by journalists and academics are merely propaganda. The stateless Bedoun of Kuwait are among the most law-abiding…

Australian ‘think tank’ the Lowy Institute jumps on board the Gulf-ISIS-propaganda gravy-train The most recent example of anti-Bedoun propaganda can be seen in a story written by Annaleise McCauliff at the Lowy Institute, an Australian foreign policy think tank. The story was called ‘Kuwait’s disenchisement of Bidun leads to growing ISIS threat. She used the false claim that Jihadi John of ISIS,…

Who are the stateless Bedoun of Kuwait? ISIS threat or victims of Gulf-envy

The stateless Bedoun diaspora stretches all over the world. Kuwaiti refugees, the stateless Bedoun, seek asylum in countries all over the world, in Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. There is ample case law on the experiences of Kuwaiti refugees who had fled Kuwait due to systemic and decades-long human rights abuses inflicted on the stateless Bedoun.…

‘Blaming the victims’ – the stateless Bedoun are targeted by international journalists, intellectuals and policy advisers – doing the job of the authoritarian governments in the Gulf and ISIS. The origins of Jihadi John has been established – a family of Iraqi nationals who lived in Kuwait who then acquired British nationality.  Iraqi.  British.  So why is he constantly accused of being part of…

‘Blaming the victims’ – the stateless Bedoun are targeted by international journalists, intellectuals and policy advisers – doing the job of the authoritarian governments in the Gulf and ISIS. The origins of Jihadi John has been established – a family of Iraqi nationals who lived in Kuwait who then acquired British nationality.  Iraqi.  British.  So why is he constantly accused of being part of…

Stateless Bedoun targeted by public intellectuals, ‘think tanks:’ doing the ISIS work for ISIS and Gulf authoritarian governments

‘Blaming the victims’ – the stateless Bedoun are targeted by international journalists, intellectuals and policy advisers – doing the job of the authoritarian governments in the Gulf and ISIS. The origins of Jihadi John has been established – a family of Iraqi nationals who lived in Kuwait who then acquired British nationality.  Iraqi.  British.  So why is he constantly accused of being part of…

‘Blaming the victims’ – the stateless Bedoun are targeted by international journalists, intellectuals and policy advisers – doing the job of the authoritarian governments in the Gulf and ISIS. The origins of Jihadi John has been established – a family of Iraqi nationals who lived in Kuwait who then acquired British nationality.  Iraqi.  British.  So why is he constantly accused of being part of…

Kuwait’s disenfranchisement of Bidun leads to growing ISIS threat Really?  Cut and paste story by Annaleise McCauliff  is based on a factual error that underpins the story of 7 July 2015 – reckless claims of terrorist links at the Lowy Institute targets Stateless Bedoun.  Intellectual think tanks line up to disseminate ISIS propaganda and authoritarian ideology – doing the job of Gulf States…

‘Cut and paste’ story by Annaleise McCauliff – a factual error underpins story of 7 July 2015 – reckless claims of terrorist links at the Lowy Institute targets Stateless Bedoun.  Intellectual think tanks line up to disseminate ISIS propaganda and authoritarian ideology – doing the job of Gulf States terror ideologists for them. 1) ‘Jihadi John’ The story contains an important error of fact –…

Australia’s Lowy Institute publishes false claims on terror threat in the Middle East

‘Cut and paste’ story by Annaleise McCauliff – a factual error underpins story of 7 July 2015 – reckless claims of terrorist links at the Lowy Institute 1) ‘Jihadi John’ The story contains an important error of fact – Jihadi John was not a stateless Kuwaiti. The claim is utterly wrong. The author is using this claim to bolster her report on a driver from the stateless community associated with…

Australia’s Lowy Institute publishes false claims on terror threat in the Middle East

‘Cut and paste’ story by Annaleise McCauliff – a factual error underpins story of 7 July 2015 – reckless claims of terrorist links at the Lowy Institute 1) ‘Jihadi John’ The story contains an important error of fact – Jihadi John was not a stateless Kuwaiti. The claim is utterly wrong. The author is using this claim to bolster her report on a driver from the stateless community associated with…

Human trafficking trade of native Kuwaitis? Gulf nationality labelling gone mad.

MIDDLE EAST MONITOR’s Alistair Sloan reports: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/15212-kuwait-is-failing-its-most-loyal-residents The question is, why the Comoros islands? It looks like this is a backhanded swap for Kuwaiti investment, modelled on a deal the United Arab Emirates recently struck with the Comoros to handle their own Bidoon “problem”. The Chairman of GCH is none…

In 2010 the Supreme Planning Council released the following numbers who were eligible for citizenship according to the Nationality Law of Kuwait (1959) and  ‘nationality’ figures of the stateless Bedoun, based on the government’s forced affadavits and fake passport schemes (Human Rights Watch, 1995, 2000).  Under these schemes, stateless Bedoon were targeted and forced to claim a nationality that…