Lebanon and Israel’s perpetual war machine

The impasse successful the US-Israel warfare connected Iran has turned Lebanon into the conflict’s astir progressive front. Israeli forces are entrenched successful the country’s south, a de facto occupation, and person reduced full neighbourhoods to rubble. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump seeks to sphere delicate negotiations with Iran, but, arsenic Israeli enactment for the warfare continues to grow, Lebanon remains a cardinal constituent of contention.

Lead contributors: 

Nicholas Noe – Senior fellow, Refugees International
Maya Rosen – Editor, Jewish Currents
Randa Slim – Middle East programme director, Stimson Centre

On our radar: 

This week, 2 salient American commentators, Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker, had their UK visas revoked earlier scheduled speaking events successful London. Both are outspoken critics of Israel, its occupation, its wars and the US argumentation towards it. The enactment by the UK authorities has called into question the close to escaped code and governmental look successful the country. Meenakshi Ravi reports.

AfrofeminasGPT: AI done a Black feminist lens

Artificial quality systems are often trained connected information shaped by quality bias. As a result, favoritism tin dispersed done the systems that progressively signifier our lives. In Spain, 1 pistillate is trying to alteration that with AfrofeminasGPT – a chatbot trained connected Black feminist and decolonial thought, designed to situation racism successful AI. But tin an alternative, built connected the aforesaid exemplary that it seeks to reform, ever genuinely beryllium independent?

Feature contributor: 

Mutale Nkonde – AI Researcher, Cambridge University
Safiya Noble – Professor, UCLA
Antoinette Torres Soler – Founder, Afrofemin