Politics

NOVANEWS By Tom Bousfield and Catrin NyeBBC Asian Network The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust. The Righteous Muslim Exhibition is being launched at the Board of Deputies of British Jews in Bloomsbury, central London. Photographs of 70 Muslims who sheltered Jews during World War II will be displayed alongside stories detailing their acts of heroism. The exhibition hopes to inspire new research into instances of collaboration between the Muslim and Jewish communities. Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to victims of the Holocaust, honours nearly 25,000 so-called "righteous persons" who risked their lives to protect the Jewish community during Nazi Germany's rei...

NOVANEWS   Despite all the mayhem, death and destruction visited by imperialism’s puppets on the Syrian people, they have got nowhere in their nefarious task of overthrowing the Syrian administration, for the simple reason that President Assad’s government continues to enjoy the support of the majority of the Syrian people and to command the loyalty of the Syrian armed forces. The realisation of this unwelcome truth is forcing the imperialists to switch from a covert and proxy war to open and direct warfare against the Syrian people. Most favoured among the available options is the creation of a Nato-backed, Turkey-led military coalition, given a semblance of respectability by an invitation from Nato’s stooges in the Arab League to enter Syria and overthrow its legitimate go...

NOVANEWS A group of Muslim women have joined forces to protest against the work of Femen, branding them “white colonial feminists”. Muslim Women Against Femen launched an online response Femen’s “topless jihad day”, which urged activists to bare their breasts in support of Tunisian activist Amina Tyler. The group, which claims Femen are Islamophobes and imperialists, have began a Facebook page named Muslim Women Against Femen, which features images of women (the majority of which are wearing the hijab) holding up slogans including “Nudity DOES NOT liberate me and I DO NOT need saving” and “Shame on you Femen, hijab is my right”. 13 members have penned an open letter to Femen outlining their objections to the group, which was founded in Ukraine in 2008. It says: “We understand that ...

NOVANEWS 18 July this year marks the 72nd anniversary of the start of the Civil War in Spain. The fascists in Spain, led by General Franco, rose in rebellion against the Spanish Republic. The Francoites were supported by the armed forces of Mussolini’s fascists and German Nazis, while the Spanish Republic was denied the right to defend themselves by the ‘democratic’ imperialists of the US, Britain and France. To the heroic anti-fascist struggle, organised by the Communist Party of Spain, the Soviet Union alone rendered fraternal material, political and moral support. The Spanish Republic was defeated through a combination of the external imperialist support given to the Franco forces and the internal disruption caused by the Trotskyists and Anarchists. And yet the Spanish Republic, the Co...

NOVANEWS By Jimmy Carter Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God. I HAVE been a practicing Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of people around the world. So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention’s leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be “subservient” to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains i...

NOVANEWS The Anti-Defamation League fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry in the U.S. and abroad through information, education, legislation, and advocacy. Posted by Paul Eisen