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Follow Updated: Feb. 27, 2021 American Jews recently discovered an indignity their California compatriots had long warned them about: Children in the state were about to be subjected to in-class lessons that demonized and belittled the Jewish people. Sounding the alarm was veteran journalist Emily Benedek. In her Tablet Magazine article “California is Cleansing Jews from History” last month, she wrote how the state had mandated the establishment of a model ethnic studies curriculum, to be t...

GEDT seminar: Adaptability of Border Twin Cities Ekaterina Mikhailova, postdoctoral researcher in human geography working at the crossroads of Border Studies and Urban Studies, will present her work during the next GEDT seminar on Wednesday the 24th of February from 12h15 to 13h45 (online).  The seminar will address twin cities – adjacent, mostly independently founded but deeply interdependent settlements on either side of an international or internal border – and will consist of two pa...

Copy to Clipboard President Andrés Manuel López Obradors office is seeking help from the Joe Biden administration in Washington as Mexican authorities struggle to curb the flow of into their territory (Getty Images) The tumultuous 2020 saw a sharp rise in gun sales across the US, thanks to social and economic factors, and now, the country is facing a challenging situation from across its southern border over the same issue. Southern neighbor Mexico has asked the Joe Biden administration i...

Mexico asks Biden administration to help stop the flow of guns from the US, as country says about 70% of the weapons used in crimes there come from America The Mexican government estimates that 2.5 million to 3 million illegal weapons were smuggled from the United States over the last 10 years Of the weapons tied to the US that have been used in crimes in Mexico, at least 41% have been trafficked from Texas, while 19% were smuggled from California, a Mexico government report says Part of the c...

Border closure failed to achieve objectives  — Prof Asiwaju (2) On Read the first part of this interview HERE; it focused on the management of the nation’s borders. In this concluding part, Profesor Asiwaju insists that the unilateral border closure was completely counterproductive. By Yinka Kolawole IN Imeko, my own equivalent of Buhari’s Daura, the local business community whose operators have their filling stations located within less than 20 kilometres of the border, and Ilara wher...