mi occupo di diversità, equità ed inclusione in ecosistemi organizzativi e mi piacerebbe entrare in contatto con te !

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Valentina

mi occupo di diversità, equità ed inclusione in ecosistemi organizzativi e mi piacerebbe entrare in contatto con te !

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Valentina

Hi Chris, thanks for your question. I don’t think I’d change much of what I’ve written on Anderson. His stance was that of a massacre denier, systematically ignoring the presence of a genuine anti-government popular movement whose peaceful and civil trends have been brutally murdered, tortured and exiled. What I wrote back then was not an apology of opposition armed factions, IS or the West (whose poor ethical standards in Syria I have documented at length). Mr Anderson has always been vocal about the West’s intervention while never spending a word on Russian and Iranian interference, this is a biased Western-centric perspective, in which what matters is just the US interest-driven positionality rather than “Syrians” (the majority of whom have been killed by the Syrian government, by the way). More worryingly, one of the root causes of the rise of radical jihadist groups (i.e. the existence of a merciless security apparatus with scores of political detainees – including the “real” leftists Anderson was supposed to stand up for) is still there… so wait for the next IS-minded generation and for foreign powers to jump on the wagon again. I have the impression it will just come back unless serious reforms are carried out. It’s just a pity Anderson was dismissed for exposing Israeli atrocities against Palestinian civilians, while he held completely different standards on Syria (Israeli and Syrian official narratives on “terrorists” are not that different, but Anderson seems to buy into one narrative while critically contesting the other). Best, Andrea