Ronit Lentin

A banal apartheid

Last update: 14:25 | 20.03.13 | © Metro Éireann

On 28 February, an Israeli activist with Checkpoint Watch – a movement of Israeli women peace activists who oppose the Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinians’ rights to move freely in their land, and who conduct daily observations

Irish asylum politics, again

Last update: 11:27 | 06.03.13 | © Metro Éireann

On Friday 21 September, Emmanuel Marcel Landa – a 62-year-old asylum seeker from the DR Congo – was found dead in his room in the Mosney asylum centre.

My lament for Savita

Last update: 06:32 | 20.12.12 | © Metro Éireann

RECENTLY, The Irish Times carried on its front page the image of a little boy lighting candles for Diwali, the Indian festival of light. The next day, the lead story came with another beautiful Indian face, this time of a woman who died in an Irish

My lament for Savita

Last update: 06:28 | 19.12.12 | © Metro Éireann

Lessons from the Olympics

Last update: 00:47 | 01.09.12 | © Metro Éireann

Don’t ask me why I was watching a bit of the extravagant but dead boring Olympics closing ceremony, and to be honest one or two of the sporting events as well, when my interest in sports aspires to nil.

Is joint anti-racist activism possible?

Last update: 12:11 | 15.08.12 | © Metro Éireann

Is joint anti-racist activism possible?

Goodbye to migration studies

Last update: 15:37 | 01.08.12 | © Metro Éireann

Goodbye to migration studies

New strategies for Travellers

Last update: 13:49 | 15.07.12 | © Metro Éireann

New strategies for Travellers

Mixed message on World Refugee Day

Last update: 14:50 | 01.07.12 | © Metro Éireann

Mixed message on World Refugee Day

What links soccer and racism?

Last update: 01:58 | 15.06.12 | © Metro Éireann

Recently the BBC’s current affairs series Panorama turned its sights on soccer-related racism in Poland and Ukraine, the host nations of Euro 2012. The documentary included footage of thousands of Polish fans chanting anti-semitic slogans and giving

End direct provision

Last update: 13:12 | 01.05.12 | © Metro Éireann

I have written about the direct provision system for asylum seekers several times before. It is an inhumane system, in which hostel managers have the discretion to maltreat asylum seekers at will, and in which asylum seekers live in ‘zones of exception’

In France, danger comes from within

Last update: 13:40 | 01.04.12 | © Metro Éireann

At first, the killing in France of three paratroopers of North African and African origin, followed by three Jewish students and a rabbi outside a Jewish school, was a puzzling development. Some assumed it was the work of a white supremacist who, like the Norwegian

Israel must end administrative detention

Last update: 14:52 | 01.03.12 | © Metro Éireann

I’d been expecting that Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan would not be alive by the time you read this. Adnan, a 33-year-old baker and father of two daughters living in the occupied West Bank, and a political activist and spokesman for Islamic

Good news for some?

Having given the Minister for Justice a qualified welcome at the start of his term, the time has come to begin scrutinising the work of his department on immigration and integration.

My neighbour Rudoâ€™s dreadful fate

In July 2004 a badly decomposed body, described by the media as that of “a black non-national woman”, was discovered in a black plastic bag on a riverbank in Co Kilkenny. Because she arrived as an asylum seeker in 2000 and – like all

Justice at last for Stephen Lawrence

When Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager in London, was stabbed to death in 1993 by what a British court called last week a “gang of racist thugs”, no one expected it to become the most notorious case of justice evaded, leading even to the indictment

Where has the â€˜Râ€™ word gone?

I write this having just learned that Nigerian taxi driver Moses Ayanwole has died of his injuries after being brutally attacked by a white passenger on Dublin’s Pearse Street. I write with rage not only at the senseless murder, but also at the refusal

New Year violence in the West Bank

Two nights after Jewish people celebrated their New Year, two violent incidents occurred which made me angrier than usual at the brutal behaviour of Israeli Jewish West Bank settlers, the Israeli police, and the Israeli racial state.

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