Tag Archives : war

Voyage of the damned

This entry was posted in Essays new material and tagged aylan kurdi displacement Europe humanitarian crisis immigrants Middle East Mideast migrants refugees SS St. Louis Syria war on by .

His name was Aylan Kurdi. He was three years old. He died when the boat carrying his family from Turkey to Greece capsized, filled with refugees fleeing war-torn Syria. Aylan’s mother and five-year-old brother died, too. His lifeless body, dressed in a red T-shirt and shorts, washed up on the Turkish shore, buffeted by waves. […]

And just what do you think they’re protesting? 3

This entry was posted in new material and tagged conflict Gaza Hamas Israel protest rally suport war on by .

  I stood at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza with a group of colleagues fromwork, barely able to move, sweat trickling down my back. I have been here before, I thought. But this time, it feels different. I scrolled through Facebook seeing people I know post that they were in the crowd, “Am Yisrael Chai!” I kept […]