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Palestinian leaders have condemned the Eurovision Song Contest for its decision to prevent their flag from being flown during the annual event later this month.
The European Broadcast Union, which organises the contest, published a list of banned flags last week.
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Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat urgently demanded the head of the EBU reverse the decision.
"We call upon Jean-Paul Philippot to revoke his decision immediately and to apologise to the 11 million Palestinians of this grave, unacceptable, despicable mistake."
In a statement, Eurovision's organisers apologised for any offence caused, insisting the examples given on the banned list were not aimed at specific territories, however it did not say whether the current policy will be changed.
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A recently rediscovered document in the American Archives
reveals that around 10 million Iranians died as a result of widespread
famine between 1917-1919.
The
Iranian famine is barely mentioned by Western media or in the history
books, probably due to the fact that it was caused by the British
presence in Iran after World War I.
Khamenei.ir reports:
After
the Russian Revolution of 1917, Britain became the main foreign power
in Iran and this famine or-more accurately-'genocide' was committed by
the British. The document in the American Archives, reporting the
widespread famine and spread of epidemic disease in Iran, estimates the
number of the deceased due to the famine to be about 8-10 million during
1917-19, making this the greatest genocide of the 20th century and Iran
the biggest victim of World War I.
It should be noted that Iran
had been one of the main suppliers of food grains to the British forces
stationed in the empire's South Asian colonies. Although bad harvest
during these two years made the situation worse, it was by no means the
main reason why the Great Famine occurred. Prof. Gholi Majd of Princeton
University writes in his book, The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia,
that American documents show that the British prevented imports of
wheat and other food grains into Iran from Mesopotamia, Asia, and also
the USA, and that ships loaded with wheat were not allowed to unload at
the port of Bushehr in the Persian Gulf. Professor Majd argues that
Great Britain intentionally created genocide conditions to destroy Iran,
and to effectively control the country for its own purposes. Major
Donohoe describes Iran of that time as a "land of desolation and death".
But this event soon became the subject of a British cover up.
Britain
has a long record of its several attempts to conceal history and
rewrite it in their own favor. The pages are filled with conspiracies
that were covered up by the British government to hide its involvement
in different episodes that would tarnish the country's image. One of the
clear examples is the "Jameson Raid"; a failed coup against Paul
Kruger's government in South Africa. This raid was planned and executed
directly by the British government of Joseph Chamberlain under the
orders of Queen Victoria. In 2002, Sir Graham Bower's memoirs were
published in South Africa, revealing these involvements that had been
covered up for more than a century, focusing attention on Bower as a
scapegoat for the incident.
The records that were destroyed to
cover up British crimes around the globe, or were kept in secret Foreign
Office archives, so as to, not only protect the United Kingdom's
reputation, but also to shield the government from litigation, are
indicative of the attempts made by the British to evade the consequences
of their crimes. The papers at Hanslope Park also include the reports
on the "elimination" of the colonial authority's enemies in 1950s
Malaya; records that show ministers in London knew of the torture and
murder of Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya and roasting them alive. These
records may include those related to Iran's Great Famine. Why were these
records that cover the darkest secrets of the British Empire destroyed
or kept secret? Simply because they might 'embarrass' Her Majesty's
government.
A
famine occurred in Ireland from 1845 until 1852 which killed one fourth
of the Irish population. This famine was caused by British policies and
faced a large cover up attempt by the British government and crown to
blame it on 'potatoes'. The famine, even today, is famous in the world
as the "potato famine" when, in reality, it was a result of a planned
food shortage and thus a deliberate genocide by the British government.
The
true face of this famine as a genocide has been proven by historian Tim
Pat Coogan in his book The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's
Greatest Tragedy published by Palgrave MacMillan. A ceremony was planned
to take place in the US to unveil Coogan's book in America, but he was
denied a visa by the American embassy in Dublin.
Therefore it
becomes obvious that Britain's role in Iran's Great famine, which killed
nearly half of Iran's population, was not unprecedented. The documents
published by the British government overlook the genocide, and
consequently, the tragedy underwent an attempted cover-up by the British
government. The Foreign Office "handbook on Iran" of 1919 mentioned
nothing related to the Great Famine.
Julian Bharier, a scholar who
studied Iran's population, built his "backward projection" estimation
of Iran's population based on reports from this "handbook" and, as a
result, ignored the effect of the Great Famine on Iran's population in
1917. Bharier's estimations were used by some authors to deny the
occurrence of the Great Famine or to underestimate its impacts.
By
ignoring Iran's Great Famine in his estimations, Bharier's work faces
four scientific deficiencies. Bharier does not consider the loss of
population caused by the famine in his calculations; he needs to
'adjust' the figure of the official census in 1956 from 18.97 million to
20.37 million, and this is despite the fact that he uses 1956 census as
his primary building block for his "backward projection" model. He also
ignores the official growth rates and uses his personal assumptions in
this regard, which is far lower than other estimates. Finally, although
Bharier frequently cites Amani's estimates, in the end Bharier's
findings contradict that of Amani's; notably Bharier's population
estimate for 1911 is 12.19 million while Amani put this figure at 10.94
million.
Despite deficiencies in the population estimates offered
by Bharier for the period of the Famine and its earlier period, his
article offers useful data for the post-Famine period; this is because
these figures are generated from 1956 backward. That is to say, numbers
generated from 1956 to 1919 are thus credible because they do not
include the period of famine. Moreover, this portion of Bharier's data
are also true to that of the American Legation. For example, Caldwell
and Sykes estimate the 1919 population at 10 million, which is
comparitive to Bharier's figure of 11 million.
Gholi Majd was not
the first author to refute Bharier's figures for this period. Gad G.
Gilbar, in his 1976 article on demographic developments during the
second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th
century, also considers Bharier's estimates inaccurate for the period.
In
an apparently biased review of Majd's work, Willem Floor confirms
Bharier's model, despite its apparent deficiencies, and takes a mocking
tone toward the well- documented work of Gholi Majd to undermine the
devastation caused by the British-instigated famine in Iran, to the
point of total denial of the existence of such a genocide. Floor also
offers inaccurate or untrue information to oppose the fact that the
British deprived Iranians from honey and caviar in the north, as he
argues caviar was haram (religiously prohibited), while no such fatwa
has ever existed in Shia jurisprudence and all available decrees assert
that caviar is halal or permissible under the Islamic law. There was a
rumor made up by Russians at the time, saying that Caviar was haram and
Britain made full use of this rumor.
Another criticism made by
Floor was to question why Majd's work does not use British archival
sources. A more important question is why Majd should have used these
sources when they totally ignore the occurrence of the famine in Iran.
The fact that Majd used mainly US sources seems to be reasonable on the
grounds that the US was neutral toward the state of affairs in Iran at
the time, and made efforts to help by feeding them.
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