Molly Charles-Reflections

  Antisemitism is a gift from Europe to the world, other parts of the world it was and is an irrelevant reality. Antisemitism is seen to be made real today, is not because others suddenly felt urge to be so but rather, they perceived the inhuman injustice that was being sanctioned by making antisemitism the impenetrable cover of impunity irrespective of Jewish terror acts, as seen in case of Israel and its rampage of Gaza and total contempt for international law or relations when interacting with neighbours. Today, what is termed antisemitism is not antisemitism but rather assertion for call for justice to be adhered too, not just by people of a country or two but across the globe. Refusal to see the difference, will make peace a distant reality and unattainable. When antisemitism is weaponised to silence calls for justice, then peace bids farewell. For peace and injustice are not synonyms. Just as Justice and Equality are not privileges for the Americans or rather White American...

    Distancing is a survival mechanism we all learn through experience, at times innately, the connotation of it being negative or positive is determined by context; learnt perceptions and responses to distancing from threat be it cultural or social; and it is both individual and group experience, often feeding on to one another is a circular fashion only to be broken when the stimuli or context evoking the act of distancing disappear or looses it strength to evoke a response. Distancing often can be physical or mental or combination of both, it is possible we as individuals may learn to give preference for one over the other, this choice can be personal, cultural, survival or all of these combined. For example, there is often a saying when faced with threat the response could be either fight or flight, within this example there is a common factor that is the act of distancing. When we decide to flee, we acknowledge our fear or the threat and decide distance would bring safe...

  From the University grounds in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, to the US Senate and more recently the Prime Minister of Canada and others; everyone is passionate about expanding the definition of Anti-Semitism and portraying anyone who dares question Israel’s crimes against Humanity in Gaza as criminals or individuals on the brink of facilitating acts of terror. Given the tech supremacy in Military Industry with a disproportionate concern for soldiers alongside research on mental health issues among soldiers it is natural, especially among military powers like US and its ally Israel, that robots will be doing more than blowing up buildings as it is doing at present in Gaza. Under such circumstances it is important to analyse what such a definition would mean at the ground level; such an inquiry is relevant at the conceptual level and for global governance. When students and others stand up against the war crimes, crimes against humanity and g...