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Canada debt bondage
A UN special rapporteur judges Canada's temporary foreign worker
program to promote debt bondage.
Also, he found that workers are subject to many of the usual kinds
of abuses; some of those abuses are illegal, but there is insufficient
effort to prevent them.
Side issue: every time I see the term "global south" it strikes me as
gratuitous geographical error. Mexico, Guatemala and Jamaica are all
far north of the equator. The significant issue that these countries
have in country is that they are poor enough that their people suffer,
but developed enough for their workers to be useful in wealthier
countries.
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Bartov wrote how Israel changed
Omer Bartov, Israeli historian living for 25 years in the US, writes
about how Israel has changed.
*As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was
deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel.* He describes an
Israeli people that has come to see peace as unthinkable. That was
not so before.
He cited his previous publication in November:
*We know from history that it is crucial to warn of the
potential for genocide before it occurs, rather than belatedly condemn
it after it has taken place. I think we still have that
time.*
But then he said,
*I no longer believe that. By the time I travelled to
Israel, I had become convinced that at least since the attack by the
IDF on Rafah on 6 May 2024, it was no longer possible to deny that
Israel was engaged in systematic war crimes, crimes against humanity
and genocidal actions.*
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