Yesterday PAX ARABICA came to Parliament!
In a special Jewish-Kurdish Network event hosted by Luke Akehurst MP, and in front of an audience of notables including Tel Aviv-based Professor Ofra Bengio, JKN Founder Liat Korduene, the Senior Vice President of the British Board of Deputies Adrian Cohen, Kurdish political/cultural figures from Iran to Syria and Guerre and Shalom’s very own Khaled Salih, I presented the necessity of fighting against Arab Imperialism.
It was timely —for it took place on an evening of escalating Syrian Arab violence against the country’s Kurds. One personally affected member of the audience spoke in tears of agony, in outrage at the world’s silence in the face of impending slaughter. Those around me were scrolling Facebook for the latest from Iran and Rojava.
It is in this context that PAX ARABICA arrived in Westminster — as a statement of truth in the darkness; as a project for a new region. So please take a listen and buy the book through a Guerre and Shalom paid subscription.
One person who will be buying was audience member and author of Forced Out: Labour Antisemitism Resignation Letters Judith Ornstein. Pax Arabica is a book on the art of language inversion - lying on a grand scale - and in Judith’s own words, “I’m a relative of Trotsky, so I know a thing or two about lying”.
If you would like me to speak on PAX ARABICA at one of your events, please get in touch in the normal way.
Correction: the early line in the speech should have read “where imperialism is mistaken for decolonisation”.
Daniel Clarke-Serret’s PAX ARABICA:
Acknowledgements: With Thanks
Introduction: The time to change the narrative is now!
PART 1: BABEL
Chapter 1: On Arab Imperialism // Chapter 2: On the Vanguard //Chapter 3: On Dictatorial Oppression // Chapter 4: On Islamist “Freedom” // Chapter 5: On Islamist Misery // Chapter 6: On Arab Apartheid // Chapter 7: On Middle Eastern Minorities // Chapter 8: On the Masters of Ethnic Cleansing // Chapter 9: On Genocide, Slavery and Racist Indifference //Chapter 10: On Unjust “Justice” and the Inversion of Language // Chapter 11: On Appeasement // Chapter 12: On the Man who stood against Pax Arabica
PART 2: EDEN
Chapter 13: On Nations, States and the Nation State // Chapter 14: On Sykes-Picot // Chapter 15: On Zionism and the duty to protect // Chapter 16: On the New Regional Sheriff // Chapter 17: On the Psychology of Strength // Chapter 18: On the Paradigm Shift // Chapter 19: On the Post-Imperial Two State Solution // Chapter 20: On the End of the Great Game
AFTERWORD by Khaled Salih: A Song of the Oppressor and the Parody of the Oppressed.
The paperback version of Pax Arabica be found on Amazon here.
