Trump’s New Executive Order Is Still A Muslim Ban

Immigration and human rights advocates say the new ban still discriminates against Muslims and fails to address some of their concerns with the previous order.

Democracy Now
By Democracy Now
Muslim Ban

(ANALYSIS) --- President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order temporarily banning all refugees, as well as people from six majority-Muslim countries, from entering the United States. In contrast to the fanfare that accompanied Trump’s rollout of January’s ill-fated travel ban, Monday’s signing was a decidedly more low-key event. Trump

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Huge Crowds Gather In Spain To Demand Conservative Gov. Take In More Refugees

Marchers held a large banner and signs in Catalan with the slogans “Enough Excuses! Take Them In Now!” and “No More Deaths, Open The Borders!” as they made their way through the city center to its Mediterranean coast.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Thousands of people march to demand Spain's government to increase its efforts to take in refugees who have fled the war in Syria and other violent conflicts in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. Spain has taken in just 1,100 refugees of the over 17,000 it has pledged to accept. Banner reads in Catalan: "Enough Excuses! Take Them In Now!". (AP/Manu Fernandez)

BARCELONA, Spain (REPORT) — At least 160,000 protesters marched Saturday in Barcelona to demand that Spain's conservative-led government increase its efforts to take in refugees from war-torn countries like Syria. Spain has accepted just 1,100 refugees of the over 17,000 it has pledged to take in. Marchers held a large banner and signs in

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German Ambassador 1933: Hostility To Jews Aimed Mainly At ‘Immigrants’

The Trump regime’s exclusion or expulsion of refugees without regard to the danger awaiting them on their return to their point of origin has some resemblance to this Nazi callousness in expelling stateless people who had nowhere to go and who lacked proper passports, having only a laissez-passer from Geneva.

Juan Cole
By Juan Cole
Expulsion from Reichsgau Wartheland. Poles are led to trains under German army escort, as part of the ethnic cleansing of western Poland annexed to the German Reich following the invasion. (Photo: Wikipedia / Wilhelm Holtfreter / CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Here are two newspaper articles from spring, 1933. They concern the issue of early Nazi policy toward Germany’s Jews. In the first, the German ambassador to the UK maintains that the issue isn’t Jews but Immigrants. In the second, it is clear that only a few weeks later German Jews with citizenship were nevertheless being forced out. Those Jewish

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Trump Orders Creation Of ‘Safe Zones’ In Syria

During the campaign, Trump had endorsed the idea of safe zones on humanitarian grounds, but also scorned Hillary Clinton for supporting the no-fly zone aspect, citing the concerns about starting such huge new wars.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
With a mosque's minaret in the foreground, a United States Air Force cargo plane takes off from the Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, where coalition forces launch attacks inside of Syria, July 30, 2015.

Turkey has long sought an internationally-imposed series of “safe zones” in northern Syria to house refugees, as a way to limit the number of refugees who actually end up crossing into Turkey. The White House resisted, fearing it would be too complicated, and President Trump’s intention to shift Syria policy toward fighting ISIS made it seem like

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The Zionist Record On Refugees

Historically, Zionists have put the interests of Israel over the humanitarian plight of refugees, even in the face of Nazi Germany and now in shying away from offending President Trump, writes Lawrence Davidson.

Lawrence Davidson
By Lawrence Davidson
Israeli soldiers and relatives of new Jewish immigrants from the U.S. and Canada, wave Israeli flags to welcome them as they arrive at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 23, 2013.

It is a strange story. American Jews (and I expect it is the case with other Jews too) act in solidarity with other discriminated groups only if they, the Jews, resist Zionist leadership. If they follow the Zionist lead, they usually do one of two things: passively support the discriminatory majority or stay silent. This behavior is particularly

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An Ocean Apart, But United In Concerns About Hate Crimes

The violence in Great Britain after the Brexit vote might hold lessons for America.

Patrick G. Lee | ProPublica
By Patrick G. Lee | ProPublica
The English Defence League marchs in Newcastle on Saturday calling for the repatriation of immigrants in the wake of the EU referendum vote.

(ANALYSIS) --- A divisive vote, with jobs and immigrants the most combustible issues. An outcome that surprised the experts. A nation left on edge, with many anxious about intolerance and the violence that can stem from it. No, not just America today, but also the United Kingdom seven months ago. Last June, voters there opted out of the European

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