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13 posts tagged "Genocide"

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‘The conflict’s root cause’: Settler-colonialism to blame for genocide in Gaza

Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 20, 2023

In “Why Did Israel Kill My Son?” Palestinian poet and journalist Ahmed Abu Artema recounts surviving a bombing in southern Gaza on Oct. 24. Among ruins of their collapsed house, he saw his son and daughter screaming and pointing to their injured sibling Abboud, 12, who’d later die in intensive care. Abu Artema’s two aunts

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‘Modern-day libel’: Jews and genocide in Gaza

Letter to the Editor | Monday, November 20, 2023

Among the charges leveled against Israel in these tragic days is that of its genocide of the Palestinian people. Unlike other such words or phrases heard at present protests, this one has a technical and legal definition, as well as a clear origin. The Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1943 or 1944

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Genocide occurs in silence

Carlos Basurto | Tuesday, November 7, 2023

“[I don’t know] how long I will live so I just want this to be my memory here before I die. I am not going to leave my home, come what may. My biggest regret is not kissing this one guy. He died two days back. We had told how much we like each other

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Notre Dame law school hosts Uyghur-American lawyer and commissioner to speak on Uyghur genocide

Liam Kelly | Tuesday, October 11, 2022

“People often say history repeats itself, but we allow history to repeat,” Commissioner Nury Turkel said in his conversation with Stephanie Barclay, a professor at the Notre Dame Law School, this Monday. In the talk, Turkel detailed the ongoing genocide against the Uyghur people in China. Turkel, who was born in a Chinese “re-education” camp, is

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Crowd gathers for prayer service in solidarity with Ukraine

Maggie Eastland | Friday, February 25, 2022

Braving flurries and freezing temperatures, more than 100 students gathered at the Grotto Thursday night for a prayer service hosted by the Ukrainian Society of Notre Dame. Students filed in from the north and south ends of campus just before 11 p.m. to pray the Rosary and show their support for the nation of Ukraine,

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British Lord discusses history of genocide, calls for awareness, activism

Katherine Ross | Wednesday, February 16, 2022

David Alton, member of the British House of Lords for Liverpool, visited the Hesburgh Center for International Studies on Tuesday to give a speech on the horrors of genocide, why “never again happens all over again” and what can be done to prevent it.  Known for his work in human rights advocacy, Alton was a member

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Drowning in justice: The story of ‘La Llorona’

Lexi Kilcoin | Monday, November 22, 2021

This past Thursday through Sunday, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center held an International Film Fest in conjunction with the Notre Dame International (NDI) Senior Fellows. The fest, which was intended to highlight Notre Dame’s International Education Week, featured four films: one from Iran, one from Guatemala, one from Ireland and one from India. Thursday’s showing

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Lecturer discusses violence against women

Kathleen Meyer | Friday, April 26, 2019

Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid spoke regarding the current crisis of feminicide in Latin America as a part of the 34th annual Madaleva Lecture series Thursday in Carroll Auditorium. Madrid, the T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, defined feminicide as the systematic assassination of women because of their gender. “While there

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Perpetrator of genocide or Catholic hero?  

Jackie O'Brien | Wednesday, February 6, 2019

University President Fr. John Jenkins’s decision to cover the offensive and demeaning murals in the Main Building depicting the conquest and genocide of Christopher Columbus is a wonderful step in the right direction toward acknowledging the actuality of American and Catholic history, as well as respecting every student and person who steps foot on our

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Stop pretending we can ignore Syria’s crisis

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 7, 2018

The world looks away as bombs and bullets destroy Syrian communities, especially in Ghouta, Idlib and Afrin. The world is in denial and is pretending that the massacres are not happening. This pretending has to stop. In the past seven years, almost half a million Syrians have been killed, and 11 million have been displaced from their

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