With less than 18 months to go until the tournament, will anyone stand up to the Qatari state’s human rights abuses?
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Pinkwashing Israel
Since the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, propaganda and the “fight against misunderstanding” has been a crucial part of Zionism, feeding into the activities of the state of Israel since its foundation almost half a century later (Kouts, 2016).
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How Can I Help Palestine?
The violence and injustice of this May’s attempted forced evictions of several Palestinian families living in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah appalled observers around the world. This is no isolated event, as illustrated by ongoing attempts to evict Palestinian residents of Al-Bustan, Silwan in order to facilitate its settlement by the Ateret Cohanim organisation.
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Structuring the Patriarchy through Borders
The ‘kafala’ system is understood today as both an administrative apparatus to regulate migrant workers through a ‘sponsorship’ system, as well as a brutal ‘employment’ position for Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs) in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) and in the Arab states of Jordan and Lebanon (Dermitzaki and Riewendt, 2020).
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