{"id":66085,"date":"2021-04-17T20:49:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/?p=66085"},"modified":"2021-04-17T20:49:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T20:49:37","slug":"syriaandtheanti-imperialismoffools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litci.org\/en\/syriaandtheanti-imperialismoffools\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasing People through Disinformation: Syria and the \u201cAnti-Imperialism\u201d of Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disreputable outlets, often operating under the aegis of \u201cindependent journalism\u201d with purportedly \u201cleftwing\u201d views, are spreading corrosive propaganda and disinformation that aims to strip Syrians of political agency<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
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\nThe years since Russia intervened in Syria on behalf of Bashar al-Assad have been marked by a curious and malign development: the emergence of pro-Assad allegiances in the name of \u201canti-imperialism\u201d among some who otherwise generally identify as progressive or \u201cleft,\u201d and the consequent spread of manipulative disinformation that routinely deflects attention away from the well-documented abuses of Assad and his allies. Portraying themselves as \u201copponents\u201d of imperialism, they routinely exhibit a highly selective attention to matters of \u201cintervention\u201d and human rights violations that often aligns with the governments of Russia and China; those who disagree with their highly-policed views are frequently (and falsely) branded as \u201cregime change enthusiasts\u201d or dupes of western political interests.
\nThe divisive and sectarianizing role played by this group is unmistakable: in their simplistic view, all pro-democracy and pro-dignity movements that go against Russian or Chinese state interests are routinely portrayed as the top-down work of Western interference: none are autochthonous, none are of a piece with decades of independent domestic struggle against brutal dictatorship (as in Syria), and none truly represent the desires of people demanding the right to lives of dignity rather than oppression and abuse. Among others, this group includes the American writers at the mysteriously-funded The Grayzone (Max Blumenthal, Rania Khalek, Ben Norton, Aaron Mat\u00e9), Australian academic Tim Anderson and blogger Caitlin Johnstone, and Working Group on Syria Propaganda and Media (SPM) members Tim Hayward, Vanessa Beeley, and Piers Robinson in the UK, as well as various writers at Mint Press News, Consortium News, ZeroHedge, Antiwar.com, GlobalResearch.ca, Moon of Alabama, and Voltaire.net. Some, like Jimmy Dore and Kim Iversen, are contemporary \u201cmedia personalities.\u201d A number of political activist and advocacy organizations \u2013 including the US \u201cPeace Council\u201d, Veterans for Peace (VFP), Workers World Party (WWP), United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) \u2013 have espoused similar views. But what unites them all is a refusal to contend with the crimes of the Assad regime, or even to acknowledge that a brutally repressed popular uprising against Assad took place.
\nThese writers and outlets have mushroomed in recent years, and have often positioned Syria at the forefront of their criticisms of imperialism and interventionism, which they characteristically restrict to the west; Russian and Iranian involvement is generally ignored. In doing so, they have sought to align themselves with a long and venerable tradition of internal domestic opposition to the abuses of imperial power abroad, not only but quite often issuing from the left.
\nBut they do not rightfully belong in that company. No one who explicitly or implicitly aligns themselves with the malignant Assad government does. No one who selectively and opportunistically deploys charges of \u201cimperialism\u201d for reasons of their particular version of \u201cleft\u201d politics rather than opposing it consistently in principle across the globe \u2013 thereby acknowledging the imperialist interventionism of Russia, Iran, and China \u2013 does.
\nOften under the guise of practicing \u201cindependent journalism,\u201d these various writers and outlets have functioned as chief sources of misinformation and propaganda about the ongoing global disaster that Syria has become. Their reactionary, inverted Realpolitik is as fixated on top-down, anti-democratic \u201cpower politics\u201d as that of Henry Kissinger or Samuel Huntington, just with the valence reversed. But this maddeningly oversimplifying rhetorical move (\u201cflipping the script\u201d as one of them once put it), as appealing as it might be to those eager to identify who the \u201cgood guys\u201d and \u201cbad guys\u201d are at any given place on the planet, is really an instrument of tailored flattery for their audiences about the \u201ctrue workings of power\u201d that serves to reinforce a dysfunctional status quo and impede the development of a truly progressive and international approach to global politics, one that we so desperately need, given the planetary challenges of responding to global warming.
\nThe evidence that US power has itself been appallingly destructive, especially during the Cold War, is overwhelming: all across the globe, from Vietnam to Indonesia to Iran to Congo to South and Central America and beyond, the record of massive human rights abuses accumulated in the name of fighting Communism is clear. And in the post-Cold War period of the so-called \u201cWar on Terror,\u201d American interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq have done nothing to suggest a fundamental national change of heart.
\nBut, America is not central to what has happened in Syria, despite what these people claim. The idea that it somehow is, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, is a by-product of a provincial political culture which insists on both the centrality of US power globally as well as the imperialist right to identify who the \u201cgood guys\u201d and the \u201cbad guys\u201d are in any given context. These defenders of Assad in the name of \u201canti-imperialism\u201d are not bravely independent journalists and activists speaking truth to power. No, they are themselves an expression of narcissistically-oriented domestic political cultures eager to retain the imperial prerogative of saying what is what and who is who, even as they express more normatively left-wing views on domestic policies.
\nThe ideological alignment of rightwing admirers of Assad with this kind of authoritarian-friendly \u201cleftism\u201d is symptomatic of this, and indicates that the very real and very serious problem lies elsewhere: what to do when a people is as abused by their government as the Syrian people have been, held captive by those who think nothing of torturing, disappearing, and murdering people for even the slightest hint of political opposition to their authority. As many countries move closer and closer to authoritarianism and away from democracy, this seems to us a profoundly urgent political question to which there is yet no answer; and because there is no answer, all across the globe there is growing impunity on the part of the powerful, and growing vulnerability for the powerless. About this, these \u201canti-imperialists\u201d have no helpful words. About the profound political violence visited upon the Syrian people by the Assads, the Iranians, the Russians? No words. Forgive us for pointing out that this erasure of Syrian lives and experiences appears to us to embody the very essence of imperialist (and racist) privilege. Those of us who have risked our lives, been incarcerated in the Assads\u2019 torture prisons (some of us for many years), lost loved ones, had friends and family disappeared, fled our country? These writers and bloggers have shown no awareness of our existence, which we unfortunately do not find surprising, despite the fact that many of us have spoken and written at length about these events and their meaning for years now.
\nCollectively, Syrian experiences from the Revolution to the present pose a fundamental challenge to the world as it appears to these people. Those among us who directly opposed the Assad regime, often at great cost, did not do so because of some Western imperialist plot, but because decades of abuse, brutality, and corruption were and remain intolerable. To insist otherwise, and support Assad, is to attempt to strip Syrians of all political agency and endorse the Assads\u2019 longstanding policy of domestic politicide, which has deprived Syrians of any meaningful say in their government and circumstances.
\nWe take these attempts to \u201cdisappear\u201d Syrians from the world of politics, solidarity, and partnership as quite consistent with the character of the regimes these people so evidently admire. This is the \u201canti-imperialism\u201d and \u201cleftism\u201d of the unprincipled, the lazy, and of fools, and only reinforces the dysfunctional international gridlock exhibited in the UN Security Council. We hope that readers of this piece will join us in opposing it.
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\nSignatories<\/strong>\u00a0[Affiliations for identification purposes only]
\nSyrians<\/strong>
\nAhmad Aisha, journalist and translator (Turkey)
\nAli Akil, Founder & Spokesperson, Syrian Solidarity New Zealand (Aotearoa\/New Zealand)
\nAmina Masri, Activist\/Educator (USA)
\nAsmae Dachan, Syrian-Italian Journalist (Italy)
\nAyaat Yassin-Kassab, Student, University of Oxford (UK)
\nAziz Al-Azmeh, University Professor Emeritus, Central European University (Austria)
\nBakr Sidki, translator and columnist (Turkey)
\nBanah el Ghadbanah, University of California, San Diego (USA)
\nBisher Ghazal-Aswad, Doctor, NHS (UK)
\nDellair Yousef, writer and director, Berlin (Germany)
\nDr. Mohammed Zaher Sahloul, President, MedGlobal & Founder, American Relief Coalition for Syria (USA)
\nFaraj Bayrakdar, poet (Sweden)
\nFarouk Mardam-Bey, publisher and writer, Paris (France)
\nFouad M. Fouad, Professor, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
\nFouad Roueiha, Activist (Italy)
\nGhayath Almadhoun, poet (Germany)
\nHaian Dukhan, Associate Research Fellow, Centre for Syrian Studies, University of St. Andrews (UK)
\nHaid Haid, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House (UK)
\nHala Alabdalla, Filmmaker (France)
\nHassan Nifi, writer (Turkey)
\nIr\u00e8ne Labeyrie Chaya, Architect & Former Teacher at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Qalamun, Deir Atiya, Syria
\nJoseph Daher, Syrian\/Swiss Academic, University of Lausanne\/European University Institute (Switzerland)
\nKaram Shaar, Senior Analyst, New Zealand Treasury (New Zealand)
\nKarim Al-Afnan, Journalist (UK)
\nLara el Kateb, Member of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists
\nLeila Al-Shami, Writer\/Activist (Scotland)
\nLubayed Aljundi, PhD Candidate, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nMahmoud el Wahb, writer (Turkey)
\nMarcus Halaby, British-Syrian Writer and Labour Party Member (UK)
\nMayson Almisri, Syria Civil Defence \u2013 White Helmets, co-winner of the Gandhi Peace Award 2021 (Canada)
\nMiream Salameh, Syrian Artist (Australia)
\nMohamed Al Rashi, Actor (France)
\nMohamed T. Khairullah, Mayor, Borough of Prospect Park, New Jersey (USA)
\nMohammad Al Attar, Writer, Playwright, Berlin (Germany)
\nNidal Betare, Journalist (USA)
\nNisrine Al Zahre, academic and writer (France)
\nNoor Ghazal Aswad, Doctoral Candidate, University of Memphis (USA)
\nOdai Al Zoubi, Writer (Sweden)
\nOmar Qaddour, novelist and journalist (France)
\nOrwa Khalifa, writer (Turkey)
\nOsama Alomar, Writer (USA)
\nRahaf Aldoughli, Lecturer in Middle East and North Africa Studies, Lancaster University (UK)
\nRamzi Choukair, Actor and Director, Kawalisse Theatre Company (France)
\nRobin Yassin-Kassab, Writer (Scotland)
\nSadek Abd Alrahman, writer (Turkey)
\nSalam Abbara, Doctor and Activist, Paris (France)
\nSalam Said, Academic (Germany)
\nSaleem Albeik, Writer\/Journalist, Palestinian\/Syrian (France)
\nSamar Yazbek, novelist (France)
\nSami Haddad, Activist (Italy)
\nTouhama Ma\u2019roof, dentist (Turkey)
\nVictorios Bayan Shams, Journalist (Brazil)
\nWael Khouli, Physician Executive \u2013 B E Smith, Michigan (USA)
\nYasmine Merei, Writer & Journalist and Head of Women for Common Space, Berlin (Germany)
\nYasser Khanger, Poet from the occupied Golan
\nYasser Munif, Emerson College (USA)
\nYassin al-Haj Saleh, Writer, Former Political Prisoner (Germany)
\nYazan Badran, PhD student, Vrije Universiteit and SyriaUntold (Belgium)
\nOthers<\/strong>
\nAbdul-Wahab Kayyali, Researcher, Princeton University (Canada)
\nAdam Sabra, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
\nAdam Shatz, Writer, Brooklyn (USA)
\nAditya Sarkar, University of Warwick (UK)
\nAhmad Matar, chef (Palestinian, Germany)
\nAidan Geboers, Financial Professional (UK)
\nAlan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan (USA)
\nAldo Cordeiro Sauda, Editora Contrabando, S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil)
\nAlessandra Mezzadri, Senior Lecturer, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nAlex De Jong, Co-Director, International Institute for Research and Education (Netherlands)
\nAlex Johnson, Syria Solidarity Australia (Australia)
\nAli Bakeer, Senior Researcher, Ibn Khaldun Center (Turkey)
\nAli Fathollah-Nejad, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin (Germany)
\nAli Samadi Ahadi, Filmmaker (Germany)
\nAmahl Bishara, Tufts University (USA)
\nAmina A., Syria Solidarity New York City (USA)
\nAnahita Razmi, Visual Artist (Germany)
\nAndrea Love, Educator (USA)
\nAndrew Berman, Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria \u2014 CISPOS (USA)
\nAnis Mansouri, Special Education Teacher & Coordinator, Tunisian Internationalists in Switzerland (Switzerland)
\nAnja Matar, travel agent (Germany)
\nAnn Eveleth Anti-War Activist, Washington DC (USA)
\nAnna Alboth, Civil March For Aleppo (Germany\/Poland)
\nAnsar Jasim, political researcher, Berlin (Germany)
\nAnthony Ratcliff, California State University, Los Angeles (USA)
\nAnya Briy, PhD student, Binghamton University (USA)
\nArash Azizi, PhD Candidate, New York University (USA)
\nArianna Parisato (Italy)
\nAriel Dorfman, Writer & former advisor to the government of Salvador Allende (Chile\/USA)
\nArt Young, solidarity activist (Canada)
\nAshley Smith, Member of DSA and the Tempest Collective (USA)
\nAthena Moss, Journalist (Greece)
\nAu Loong-Yu, global justice and labour campaigner (Hong Kong)
\nAustin G Mackell (Australia)
\nBarbara Blaudzun, MA Student, Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
\nBarbara Epstein, Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)
\nBashir Abu-Manneh, Reader, University of Kent (UK)
\nBecky Carroll, Co-Founder, Stand With Aleppo Campaign (USA)
\nBen Manski, Assistant Professor of Sociology, George Mason University (USA)
\nBernard Dreano, Activist (France)
\nBilal Ansari, Faculty Associate & Director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program, Hartford Seminary (USA)
\nBill Fletcher, Jr., Past President of the TransAfrica Forum (USA)
\nBill Weinberg, Journalist and Author (USA)
\nbrian bean, organizer\/journalist,\u00a0Rampant Magazine<\/em>, Tempest Socialist Collective (USA)
\nBushra A., Syria Solidarity New York City (USA)
\nCamila Pastor, Research Professor, History Department, Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (Mexico)
\nCaroline Gilbert, Retired HELP Center Counselor, University of Minnesota (USA)
\nCaterina Coppola, Activist (Italy)
\nCatherine Estrade, Singer (France)
\nCatherine Samary, Economist, Member of the Scientific Council of ATTAC (France)
\nCedric Beidatsch, Retired Cook (Australia)
\nCharles-Andr\u00e9 Udry, Economist, Editor, alencontre.org (Switzerland)
\nCheryl Zuur, former President, AFSCME Local 444 (USA)
\nChris Keulemans, writer and journalist (Netherlands)
\nChristian Dandr\u00e8s, Member of Parliament (Conseil National) (Switzerland)
\nChristian Shaughnessy, Democratic Socialists of America, Inland Empire Chapter (USA)
\nChristian Varin, Civil Servant & Member of the International Commission of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (France)
\nChristin L\u00fcttich, Expert on Syria, German\u2013Syrian Solidarity Initiative \u201cAdopt a Revolution\u201d (Germany)
\nChristoph Reuter, journalist and author, Berlin (Germany)
\nClaude Marill, Retired Educator & Trade Unionist, Syndicat National des personnels de l\u2019\u00e9ducation et du social (France)
\nColette Morrow, Professor of English, Purdue University Northwest (USA)
\nColleen Keyes, Adjunct Faculty, Hartford Seminary (USA)
\nCraig Larkin, Senior Lecturer, King\u2019s College London (UK)
\nDan Buckley, International Marxist-Humanist Organization (USA)
\nDan La Botz,\u00a0New Politics<\/em>\u00a0Journal (USA)
\nDaniel Fischer, Food Not Bombs (USA)
\nDanny Postel, Writer, Member, Internationalism from Below (USA)
\nDario Lopreno, Geographer (Switzerland)
\nDavid Bedggood, Syria Solidarity Discussion and Strategy Group (Aotearoa\/New Zealand)
\nDavid Brophy, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sydney (Australia)
\nDavid McNally, Cullen Distinguished Professor of History, University of Houston (USA)
\nDavid N. Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas (USA)
\nDavid Turpin, Anti-War Activist (USA)
\nDavid Wearing, Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nDavid Westman, Communist Voice Organization, USA
\nDilip Simeon, Teacher (India)
\nDina Matar, Reader, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nDonya Alinejad, Lecturer & Postdoctoral Researcher, Universities of Amsterdam & Utrecht (Netherlands)
\nDora Manna, Activist (Italy)
\nDr. Amr al-Azam, Professor of Middle East History and Anthropology, Shawnee State University (USA)
\nEd Sutton, Media Activist and Mutual Aid Organizer (USA)
\nEdin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University Chicago (USA)
\nElena De Piccoli, Activist (Italy)
\nEleni Varikas, Emerita Professor of Political Science, Universit\u00e9 de Paris 8 (France)
\nElsa Wiehe, Boston University (USA)
\nEmma Wilde Botta,\u00a0New Politics<\/em>\u00a0Journal (USA)
\nEmran Feroz, Journalist (Germany)
\nEnrico De Angelis, independent researcher, Berlin (Germany)
\nEric Toussaint, Member of the International Council of the World Social Forum (Belgium)
\nFabio Bosco, CSP-Conlutas (Brazil)
\nFatemeh Masjedi, Research Associate, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin (Germany)
\nFiroze Manji, Publisher, Daraja Press (Canada)
\nFrancesca Giura, Activist (Italy)
\nFrancesca Scalinci, Translator and Writer (Italy)
\nFrancis Sitel, Member of the National Animation Team of ENSEMBLE! (France)
\nFranco Casagrande (Italy)
\nFrankie Hill, Self-Employed (New Zealand)
\nFrieda Afary, Producer of Iranian Progressives in Translation (USA)
\nGabriel Huland, PhD candidate & teaching assistant, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nGennaro Gervasio, Associate Professor in History and Politics of the Middle East, Roma Tre University (Italy)
\nGeorge Monbiot, Author, Journalist & Environmental Activist (UK)
\nGilbert Achcar, Professor, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nGilberto Conde, Research Professor, El Colegio de M\u00e9xico (Mexico)
\nGiovanna De Luca, Translator-Activist (Italy)
\nGolineh Atai, TV Journalist (Germany)
\nGraciela Monteagudo, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
\nG\u00fcnther Orth, Translator (Germany)
\nHabib Nassar, activist\/lawyer (Netherlands)
\nHadrien Buclin, Academic & Deputy Ensemble \u00e0 Gauche in the Parliament of the Governorate of Vaud (Switzerland)
\nHaideh Moghissi, Emerita Professor, York University (Canada)
\nHarald Etzbach, Journalist (Germany)
\nHarout Akdedian, Senior Fellow, Striking from the Margins Project, Central European University (USA)
\nHeather A. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology, Westfield State University (USA)
\nHelen Lackner, Research Associate, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nHiroki Okazaki, University lecturer (Japan)
\nHowie Hawkins, 2020 Green Party Candidate for President (USA)
\nIvan Handler, Retired CIO from Illinois Medicaid & the Health Information Exchange (USA)
\nIzzat Darwazeh, Professor, University College London (UK)
\nJaime Pastor, Professor of Political Science, Universidad Nacional de Educaci\u00f3n a Distancia (Spain)
\nJairus Banaji, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nJames Dickert, Retired Computer Engineer (USA)
\nJames Mullally, Human Rights Activist, British Columbia (Canada)
\nJamie Mayerfeld, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)
\nJan Malewski, Editor,\u00a0Inprecor<\/em>\u00a0(France)
\nJane England, Writer (Aotearoa\/New Zealand)
\nJanet Afary, Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
\nJanet Robin Bogle, Grandmother (Aotearoa\/New Zealand)
\nJanick Schaufelbuehl, Associate Professor, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)
\nJean Batou, Historian and Deputy in the Parliament of the Governorate of Geneva (Switzerland)
\nJean-Michel Dolivo, Lawyer & Former Deputy, Ensemble \u00e0 Gauche, Parliament of the Governorate of Vaud (Switzerland)
\nJen MacLennan, Independent Media, Syria Solidarity Activist, London (UK)
\nJens Hanssen, University of Toronto (Canada)
\nJens Lerche, Reader, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nJessy Nassar (PhD candidate, King\u2019s College London (Lebanon)
\nJoan Connelly, Secretary, Retired USA
\nJoel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University (USA)
\nJoey Ayoub, Assoc. Doctoral Researcher, Univ. of Zurich, founder of \u2018The Fire These Times\u2019, writer\/journalist (Switzerland)
\nJohn Dunn, former striking coal miner & branch committee member, National Miners Union, Darbyshire Branch (UK)
\nJohn Feffer, Director, Foreign Policy In Focus, Institute for Policy Studies (USA)
\nJohn Kahler, MD, FAAP (Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics) (USA)
\nJohn Reimann, former recording secretary, Carpenters Union Local 713, Editor,\u00a0Oakland Socialist<\/em>\u00a0(USA)
\nJoseph Green, Communist Voice Organization (USA)
\nJosepha Ivanka (Joshka) Wessels, Senior Lecturer, Malm\u00f6 University (Sweden)
\nJulia Bar-Tal, farmer, Berlin (Germany)
\nJulien Salingue, Director of the newspaper and website\u00a0l\u2019Anticapitaliste<\/em>, Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (France)
\nJuliette Harkin, Writer (UK)
\nKaori Hizume, TV producer, Tokyo (Japan)
\nKelly Grotke, PhD, writer, greater Boston (USA)
\nKen Hiebert, Palestine Solidarity Activist (Canada)
\nKevin B. Anderson, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
\nKhaled Ghannam Warehouse Manager (Australia)
\nKhaled Mansour, writer (Egypt)
\nKhaled Saghieh, journalist and writer, Beirut (Lebanon)
\nKonstantin Rintelmann, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh (UK)
\nLauren Langman, Professor of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago (USA)
\nLaurie King, Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University (USA)
\nLisa Albrecht, Retired University of Minnesota Professor, Social Justice (USA)
\nLisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago (USA)
\nLivia Wick, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
\nLois Weiner, Professor Emerita, New Jersey City University (USA)
\nLoretta Facchinetti, Activist (Italy)
\nLydia Beattie, Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria \u2013 CISPOS (USA)
\nMahdi Ghodsi, Economist, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (Austria)
\nMahvish Ahmad, Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, London School of Economics (LSE) (UK)
\nMai Taha, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK)
\nMaire Kelly, Activist, Berlin (Germany)
\nMarese Hegarty, Community Development Worker, Irish Syria Solidarity Movement (Ireland)
\nMarina Centonze, Activist (Italy)
\nMark Goudkamp, ESL and History Teacher, Syria Solidarity Australia (Australia)
\nMarta Tawil-Kuri, Research Professor, El Colegio de M\u00e9xico (Mexico)
\nMartti Koskenniemi, Prof. of International Law, University of Helsinki (Finland)
\nMary Killian, Pianist\/Music Teacher, Berlin (Germany)
\nMary Lynn Murphy, Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria \u2014 CISPOS (USA)
\nMary Rizzo, Translator-Activist (Italy)
\nMayssoun Sukarieh, Senior Lecturer, King\u2019s College London (UK)
\nMazen Halabi, Activist (USA)
\nMeghan Keane, Co-Director of Emergent Horizons (USA)
\nMichael Albert, ZNet (USA)
\nMichael Fuller, Mapper, Social Scientist, British Columbia (Canada)
\nMichael Hirsch, NYC Democratic Socialists of America (USA)
\nMichael Karadjis, Western Sydney University, Syria Solidarity Australia (Australia)
\nMichael L\u00f6wy, Emeritus Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (France)
\nMichael Pr\u00f6bsting, Author, Editor of www.thecommunists.net (Austria)
\nMichael Santos, Antiwar Activist (USA)
\nMiguel Urb\u00e1n, Member of the European Parliament (GUE\/NGL) (Spain)
\nMohamad Khouli, Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria \u2014 CISPOS (USA)
\nMohamed Abdi Nour, General Secretary, Somali Public Trade Union (Somalia)
\nMolly Crabapple, Artist and Writer (USA)
\nNa\u2019eem Jeenah, Executive Director, Afro\u2013Middle East Centre (South Africa)
\nNader Hashemi, Director, Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver (USA\/Canada)
\nNadia Le\u00efla A\u00efssaoui, Sociologist (Algeria\/France)
\nNadia Samour, Lawyer, Berlin (Germany)
\nNadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Brown University (USA)
\nNancy Holmstrom, Professor Emerita, Rutgers University (USA)
\nNavtej Purewal, Professor, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nNazan \u00dcst\u00fcnda\u011f, Independent Scholar (Germany)
\nNick Riemer, University of Sydney (Australia)
\nNicola Gandolfi (Spain)
\nNigel Gibson, Emerson College (USA)
\nNils de Dardel, Lawyer, Former Member of Parliament (Switzerland)
\nNoam Chomsky, University of Arizona (USA)
\nOfer Neiman, Student, Jerusalem (Israel)
\nOmar Dewachi, Anthropologist, Rutgers University (USA)
\nPam Bromley, independent member, Rossendale Borough City Council (UK)
\nParvathi Menon, Researcher\/Adjunct Lecturer, University of Helsinki (Finland)
\nPatrick Bond, Professor, University of the Western Cape (South Africa)
\nPatrick J. O\u2019Dea, Electrician & Trade Unionist (New Zealand)
\nPayam Ghalehdar, University of G\u00f6ttingen (Germany)
\nPenelope Duggan, Editor,\u00a0International Viewpoint<\/em>\u00a0(France)
\nPete Klosterman, Human Rights Activist, New York City (USA)
\nPeter Bohmer, Faculty Emeritus, Evergreen State College (USA)
\nPeter Hudis, Professor of Philosophy, Oakton Community College (USA)
\nPeter McLaren, Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Chapman University (USA)
\nPhil Gasper, Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame de Namur University (USA)
\nPiero Maestri, Activist, Milan (Italy)
\nPierre Conscience, Communal Deputy, City Council of Lausanne, Ensemble \u00e0 Gauche \u2013 solidarit\u00e9S Vaud (Switzerland)
\nPolly Kellogg, Retired Professor of Human Relations, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota (USA)
\nRana Issa, American University of Beirut (AUB) (Lebanon\/Norway)
\nRashad Ali, Resident Senior Fellow, Institute for Strategic Dialogue (UK)
\nRashmi Varma, University of Warwick (UK)
\nRebekka Rexhausen, Project Assistant, Alsharq Reise (Germany)
\nRev. Dr. Rachael Keefe, Clergy, Living Table United Church of Christ (USA)
\nRev. Gregory Seal Livingston, Syria Faith Initiative, NYC (USA)
\nRiccardo Bella, Theater Technician, Milan (Italy)
\nRichard Greeman, Victor Serge Foundation (France)
\nRima Majed, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
\nRoane Carey, Senior Editor,\u00a0The Nation<\/em>\u00a0(USA)
\nRoberto Andervill, Social Worker & Activist (Italy)
\nRoger Silverman, former candidate, British Labour Party National Executive Committee (UK)
\nRohini Hensman, Writer and Independent Scholar (India)
\nRoland Merieux, Member of the National Animation Team of ENSEMBLE! (France)
\nRomolo Molo, Lawyer (Switzerland)
\nRupert Read, Philosopher, University of East Anglia (UK)
\nSaajeda Bayat, Businesswoman (South Africa)
\nSadri Khiari, designer (Tunisia)
\nSalwa Ismail, Professor of Politics, SOAS, University of London (UK)
\nSam Friedman, Poet and AIDS researcher (USA)
\nSam Hamad, Writer & Researcher, University of Glasgow (Scotland)
\nSamantha Falciatori, Web Author (Italy)
\nSamuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Brooklyn College of CUNY (USA)
\nSandra Hetzl, Translator and Curator (Germany)
\nSara Abbas, PhD Candidate, Freie Universit\u00e4t, Berlin (Germany)
\nSaskia Sassen, Professor, Columbia University, New York City (USA)
\nScott Lucas, Editor, EA WorldView & Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham (UK)
\nS\u00e9bastien Guex, Professor, University of Lausanne & Former Member, City Council of Lausanne (Switzerland)
\nSeda Altu\u011f, Academic, Istanbul (Turkey)
\nSevgi Dogan, Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore (Italy)
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\nSue Sparks, Unite (UK)
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