Articles by Azeezah Kanji

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Reparations in Reverse: Afghanistan Pays, Vatican Prays, US Preys
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

22 Apr 2022 – What better illustration of the perversities of “justice” under colonial modernity, than the grotesquely disparate treatment of Afghanistan versus the Vatican when it comes to exacting recompense for international crimes. The doctrine of ‘sovereign immunity’ is being used to insulate state violence from legal liability.

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War of Terror: Legal Colonialism Reincarnated
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Sep 2021

18 Sep 2021 – Did 9/11 really open a ‘new’ chapter in U.S. history? What we are told to “never forget” and what we are made to “always forget” are two sides of the same operation of power. And so the colonial present continues, inscribing each new chapter of violence as if it was the first.

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Call It by Its Name
Azeezah Kanji and David Palumbo-Liu – Jacobin Magazine, 17 Sep 2018

We have to name the crimes against the Rohingyas, Palestinians, and Kashmiris what they are: genocide, apartheid, and colonialism, respectively

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