Ronit Lentin

New Year violence in the West Bank

Last update: 09:59 | 15.10.11 | © Metro Éireann

Two nights after Jewish people celebrated their New Year, two violent incidents occurred which made me angrier than usual at the brutal behaviour of Israeli Jewish West Bank settlers, the Israeli police, and the Israeli racial state.

Griffin must be banned

Last update: 11:57 | 01.10.11 | © Metro Éireann

As I write this, the leader of the British National Party, Nick Griffin, is scheduled to debate the question of whether multiculturalism has gone ‘too far’ at Trinity College’s Philosophical Society on 20 October.

Norway: It’s multiculturalism, stupid

Last update: 19:26 | 15.08.11 | © Metro Éireann

Much has been written about the implications of the horrible massacre in Norway. After the initial automatic knee-jerk assumption that the murderer must have been an Islamist terrorist, the discovery that he was one of their ‘own’ – albeit

The asylum question remains

Last update: 17:45 | 01.07.11 | © Metro Éireann

I was stunned at the news that Pamela Izevbekhai – the Nigerian asylum seeker who highlighted the plight of her daughters facing FGM – had lost her case at the European Court of Human Rights and might be deported after all.

Ireland’s crisis racism

Last update: 11:28 | 16.06.11 | © Metro Éireann

Like everyone else, I was appalled by the revelations on RTE’s Prime Time Invest-igates on 30 May about the impact of Government cuts on disabled people and their carers - so appalled that I felt unable to watch the whole programme.

The power of women survivors

Last update: 13:34 | 01.05.11 | © Metro Éireann

Not many people today speak about the 5.4 million people murdered in DR Congo in the past decade, due to the invasion of the country by Rwanda. It came in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, when 800,000 Tutsis and many Hutus were murdered in three months

Who should tell the migrant story?

Last update: 21:07 | 15.04.11 | © Metro Éireann

Together with a team of researchers, I am now completing the book that will summarise the Migrant Networks project which was part of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, a philanthropically funded three-year research project.

A welcome to Minister White

Last update: 12:38 | 20.05.10 | © Metro Éireann

The creation of the post of Minister of State for Integration in 2007 was welcomed by many migrants, members of ethnic minorities, NGOs and academics working in this field.

Reawakening anti-racism

Last update: 13:21 | 29.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

On 20 April I attended a roundtable on anti-racism hosted by the Equality Authority in Dublin.

When's racism not racism?

Last update: 11:55 | 15.04.10 | © Metro Éireann

He was a 15-year-old who came to Ireland from Nigeria over a decade ago. He had a lovely smile and a loving family, was popular with his Tyrrelstown school friends and played soccer with Shelbourne FC. On Good Friday he got into a row, sparked by racist jibes,

Of minarets and goldfish

Last update: 12:15 | 25.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

Religion is fast replacing other ideologies such as communism and anti-colonialism as the biggest determining factor for social and political relations in our post-modern, post-9-11 world.

In-direct provision

Last update: 10:41 | 03.03.10 | © Metro Éireann

I suppose we knew most of it: that direct provision hostels for asylum seekers – which I see as refugee holding camps – are totally degrading, and that the ‘comfort money’ allowance paid to asylum seekers is insufficient for even the

Identity - the great debate

Last update: 14:31 | 18.02.10 | © Metro Éireann

In recent months, France has been engaged in a debate about its national identity, not surprisingly initiated by the Minister for Immigration Éric Besson. So lively has it grown that it’s even prompted Prime Minister François Fillon to announce

The post-budget blues

After weeks of speculation, the Minister for Finance delivered his verdict – cutting expenditure all around him, targeting public sector workers, allowances for children and the unemployed, medical card holders and other recipients of welfare.

Who speaks for whom?

Since the onset of the recession and the demise of the NCCRI, not to mention the budget cuts affecting the Equality Authority (EA) and the Irish Commission on Human Rights, no one has been speaking much about racism. Most Irish people feel they have other priorities

A taste of the Middle East

I have been in Ireland long enough to have experienced the huge ethnic culinary revolution which swept the country in recent decades. Quite apart from the obvious growth in posh restaurants during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ era, and their current demise,

‘We’ belong; ‘You’ decide?

A lot has been written about the pros and cons of the Lisbon Treaty. I confess I have not read it in its entirety, but nothing of what I did read has made me change my mind about a ‘no’ vote.

Israelis must cry freedom!

Barack Obama is being hailed for renewing the Middle East ‘peace process’. A process it is, yet peace it certainly isn’t. If they ever get around to it, negotiations are set to open between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority,

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