Vijay Prashad – Author Journalist
Updated 2024-08-30
Vijay Prashad – Wikipedia born August, 1967, is an Indian historian, author, journalist, political commentator, and Marxist intellectual. He is the executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Editor of LeftWord Books, Chief Correspondent at Globetrotter, and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Prashad
2024-05-28 Vijay Prashad: Three Evils There is no ambiguity about Israel causing Gaza to suffer occupation, apartheid and genocide. To counter Israeli denialism, here is a short primer on why these terms are accurate.
Apartheid. The Israeli government treats the Palestinian minority population within the borders defined in 1948 (21 percent) as second-class citizens. There are at least 65 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel. One of them, passed in 2018, declares the country a “nation state of the Jewish people.”
Occupation. In 1967, Israel occupied the three Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank. From 1967 to 1999, these three areas were referred to as part of the Occupied Arab Territories (which at different times also included Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Syria’s Golan region and southern Lebanon). Since 1999, they have been termed the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). In U.N. documents and at the International Court of Justice, Israel is referred to as the “occupying power,” which is a term of art that requires certain obligations from Israel toward those whom it occupies.
Genocide. In its order published on 26 January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found “plausible” evidence of Israel committing genocide against Palestinians. In March, the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese, published a monumental report called “Anatomy of a Genocide.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/28/vijay-prashad-three-evils/
2024-04-05 How Israel Weaponizes Water Even before Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza, 97 percent of the water in the sole coastal aquifer of Gaza was already unsafe for human consumption, writes Vijay Prashad.
By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. “Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related to the lack of safe drinking water’, said Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation.
“Israel,” he noted, “must stop using water as a weapon of war.” Before Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza, 97 percent of the water in Gaza’s only coastal aquifer was already unsafe for human consumption based on World Health Organisation standards. Over the course of its many attacks, Israel has all but destroyed Gaza’s water purification system and prevented the entry of materials and chemicals needed for repair.
In early October 2023, Israeli officials indicated that they would use their control over Gaza’s water systems as a means to perpetrate a genocide. As Israeli Major General Ghassan Alian, the head of the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), said on 10 October, “Human beasts are dealt with accordingly. Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza. No electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/05/how-israel-weaponizes-water/
2024-01-26 Vijay Prashad discusses the ICJ ruling on Israel’s genocide in Gaza Listen to Vijay Prashad of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research discuss with Prasanth R. and Zoe Alexandra, co-editors of Peoples Dispatch, about the significance of the recent ICJ ruling on South Africa’s case against Israel over the ongoing war on Gaza.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced on Friday January 26 that it ruled in favor of South Africa’s request for provisional measures in its case against Israel over the ongoing war on Gaza and rejected Israel’s request for the case to be dismissed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2WsrGXm_Ww&t=46s
2023-11-08 What ‘From the River to the Sea’ Really Means & Why Israel Can’t Win, w/ Vijay Prashad More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel as countries around the world withdraw their ambassadors from Israel. But when the one Palestinian member of Congress, Rashida Tlaib, speaks in support of the Palestinian people, she is censured by the House of Representatives.
Brian Becker is joined by Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Chief Editor of LeftWord Books, and a prolific author, most recently publishing a new book with Noam Chomsky called “The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.” He also spoke at the biggest march for Palestine in U.S. history last week, the November 4th National March on Washington. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIRgLtYJ-ho
2023-11-03 Vijay Prashad On The Genocide Committed Against The Palestinians By Israel And The Collective West How is it possible that Western leaders, over and over, pray the mantra of the condemnation of Hamas’ killing 1,400 people in Israel and at the same time they defend Israel when it has already killed over 8,000 civilians in Gaza, carries out progroms and killing-sprees in the West Bank, and obviously is trying to ethnically cleans the Gaza Strip of its 2.3 million Palestinian inhabitants? How can we explain this much wilful blindness and wilful support for Genocide? Dr. Vijay Prashad is trying to approach an answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdwoPzm4Cgw
2024-10-30 Vijay Prashad: Arab Masses Demand States Break with Israel Normalization Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute, breaks down the regional geopolitics around Palestine and the likelihood of Israel’s siege of Gaza igniting a wider war in the region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLVVa4xcpGU
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