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The trove of internal Chinese police files documenting the mass internment and torture of innocent civilians should, in a perfect world, tip international public opinion from outrage to action. We now have proof of Chinese intent to commit genocide, and Western corporations and consumers cannot look away. The Xinjiang Police Files, leaked to the BBC…
The parade of Olympic athletes in their national colors, the international diplomatic corps looking on approvingly, the blaring of triumphal music, the children singing and dancing, the iconic torch-lighting ceremony — and the genocidal dictator presiding over it all: was it 2022 in Beijing, or 1936 in Berlin? Sometimes, it was hard to tell. Countries…
President Biden’s decision to withhold U.S. diplomatic participation from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, while allowing athletes to take part, confronts America’s pole-vaulters and shot-putters with a familiar moral dilemma: Should sports and politics mix? It’s a shame that the president has decided to limit his response to Chinese human rights abuses to such a halfway…
Every year for Hanukkah, my mother would gift me a book about the Holocaust. Every vacation we took, even within the continental United States, my mother insisted we carry our US passports, just in case we needed to flee at a moment’s notice. Those books and passports served as reminders of my Jewish ancestry —…
What makes Passover different from all other holidays? On other holidays, we pray, then eat a festive meal. On Passover, the festive meal is the celebration, food itself is the prayer. We eat matzah to recall our enslavement and liberation, bitter herbs to recount our sorrow and haroset our hardship. We taste slavery and freedom,…
Nursiman wears a hijab as she speaks with me via videoconference from Istanbul, where she is pursuing an MBA. “My parents told me to ‘dream big,’” she says in English. Nursiman has not heard from her family in the Xinjiang province of China since June 2017. Other family and friends in Xinjiang have asked her…
Americans not readily disposed to giving credit to the Trump Administration have good reason to do so of late, thanks to new sanctions against the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a powerful Chinese paramilitary organization in the country’s Xinjiang province, which American officials accuse of facilitating the Communist Party of China’s detention and repression of…
Recent revelations from drone footage showing large groups of Uighurs, an eleven-million strong Muslim Turkic ethnic minority in China, being forcibly transported to unknown locations, are just the latest in a series of disturbing reports out of China about the abhorrent treatment of the Uighur population by Beijing’s government. In the past few months alone,…
