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Dmitri Shufutinsky

Jan 17, 2019, 6:28 PM

What Black Americans Can Learn from Kurdistan

Just over one year ago, I had the privilege of attending a seminar on the Iraqi-Kurdistan independence referendum in Washington, DC. The keynote speaker was the Kurdish representative to the US, Bayan Sami Abdulrahman. As a Jewish Black-American, I...

Jan 5, 2019, 6:02 AM

Can U.S. Air Power Protect Our Kurdish Allies?

The planned withdrawal of all 2,000 American ground troops from Syria will endanger the lives of the Kurds, our key ally in the war against ISIS. President Erdogan of Turkey has announced a military campaign against Kurdish forces in...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 30, 2018, 12:35 AM

Turkey, after Armenian and Greek genocides, now ready for a Kurdish genocide?!

Distribution of Anatolian Greeks in 1910: Demotic Greek speakers in yellow, Pontic Greek in orange and Cappadocian Greek in green with individual villages indicated.

After my last blog post, sounding the alarm against Turks about to slaughter the Kurds like the Armenians, Heaven forbid, I received a friendly reaction from a reader, reminding me of another Turkish bloodbath, and I didn't know about...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 28, 2018, 4:43 AM

Turkey, after the Armenian genocide, is now ready to commit a Kurdish genocide

Germany learned its lesson. It took two world wars but now it won't err again. Extreme nationalism, militarism, arrogance, hate speech, mass murder, crimes against humanity, racism and Jews' hatred - they are all no options anymore there. But Turkey...

Dec 27, 2018, 4:40 AM

The US pullout, Erdogan, and the Kurdish plight

Turkish military forces on the road to Afrin, Syria (Credit: VOA/Wikimedia Commons).

Israel will not be the only US ally that will be affected by the American military pullout from Syria. Similarly, Israelis are not the only group that have received the ire of Turkey’s President Erdogan. The Kurds, largely moderate,...

Dec 24, 2018, 3:21 PM

A bad neighborhood just got worse

An unidentified US military officer accompanies YPG and YPJ officers visiting a town in the northeastern Hasaka Governorate during the aftermath of Turkish airstrikes in the area. (Wikipedia)

The US ground forces in the Mideast were a declaration of intent, maintaining America's right to have a say in the region; Trump just gave up that right

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 22, 2018, 10:01 PM

Arrest President Trump Now for current treason!

US President Trump has ordered US troups to leave Syria immediately. How does that make any sense? I tell you. His excuse "we beat ISIS" is untrue - of course. This is what you get when an ignorant is...

Ariel Paz-Sawicki

Dec 20, 2018, 6:30 AM

Jews, Now is the Time to Speak up for the Kurds

The U.S. decision to pull out of Syria is a disaster for The Kurds and for Syria. It’s also bad for the U.S. and for Israel. Before this happens, we must raise our voices and call upon the Trump...

Dmitri Shufutinsky

Dec 17, 2018, 2:02 AM

The Progressive Mask of the Imperialist EU

There is a tendency among left-wingers--particularly youth--to idolize the European Union as a liberal utopia. Bernie Sanders' remarks about Denmark in a 2016 Democratic Primary Debate is one example. But there are many others. Young left-wingers, who rightly feel...

Dec 2, 2018, 3:47 PM

The Israeli Knesset, the Yezidi Genocide, and Machiavelli

On November 21, 2018, the Israeli Knesset voted down, 59 to 38, a bill that would recognize the 2014 ISIS-targeted annihilation of the Yezidis in Northern Iraq as genocide. The bill was sponsored by Knesset Member Ksenia Svetlova of...

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