![Judge Amy Coney Barrett looks over at US President Donald Trump as he stands behind a teleprompter before Barrett is sworn in to serve as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, US, October 26, 2020 [Tom Brenner/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTX85AEK.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Why did Americans condemn the new supreme court justice’s extremely conservative ideology by likening her to a Muslim?
![The intensification of speech repression coincides with the intensification of Palestinian oppression and dispossession, with Israel's planned formal annexation of Palestinian territory, write the authors [AP Photo/Bernat Armangue]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/8c085132cdea471a844bb206d17cb1a3_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
More than a thousand academics and lawyers call for the repression of speech and scholarship on Palestine to end.
![Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends a hearing of the genocide case against the Rohingya minority at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on December 11, 2019 [Reuters/Yves Herman]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/3373f1a095024e51b1c1af52e4629a18_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
With facts on the ground established, the Myanmar government’s defence against the genocide charge can hardly stand.
![Israeli authorities order the closure of a school in Nablus, West Bank on the pretext that students had hurled stones at Israeli soldiers and settlers on October 15, 2018 [File: Anadolu]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/178f7c1e9162429aba708e9e002b5dd9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
A recent UN report contributes to Israeli exploitation of human rights discourse to justify oppression in Palestine.
![A cyclist takes a selfie with an ancient pagoda to celebrate Bagan being named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bagan, Myanmar, July 27, 2019 [Ann Wang/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/01aca2909b114de2b1de81d06e633ab8_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Myanmar, India and China have all pursued UNESCO World Heritage status for sites of mass victimisation of minorities.
![Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory,walk together on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Third Annual Women's March in Washington, US, January 19, 2019 [File: Joshua Roberts/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/3bc6f002850c4fb892672be50c7ba64a_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Much effort is made in the US to maintain that Palestine is not a feminist cause and erase the plight of its women.
![British Home Secretary Sajid Javid recently defended the decision to denationalise and deport four Pakistani-British men convicted of sexually abusing vulnerable young women in Rochdale [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/5905fd0931fa418ea3f3ca7395d15fcf_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Recent examples of expatriation practices in the UK and Australia demonstrate a glaring anti-Muslim bias.
![Cutting through the bush of media's posthumous propaganda is not about disrespecting George HW Bush in his death, but about respecting the lives of those victimised by his policies, writes Kanji [AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/38e69d1b71c94d0e8264fdfd37ae40af_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
There is much wrong that Bush did and the media should not try to cover it up after his death.
![Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his colleague Saeed Chmagh were killed by US soldiers in Baghdad on July 12, 2007 [Reuters/Mohammed Ameen]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/f0dd610e08074db1a14a26ee94e2d830_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
US officials are keen to condemn Jamal Khashoggi’s murder but remain silent on US crimes against journalists.
![Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been a supporter of the Trump administration, writes Kanji [File: AP Photo/Shiho Fukada]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/8e03d6c7666a417cb77f202058d67d0b_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Why imperial feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a convinced crusader for Brett Kavanaugh’s cause.