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‘Respectable’ individuals can absolve themselves from individual blame: they would never plant a bomb in a church; they would never stone a black family,” Toure and Hamilton wrote. “But they continue to support political officials and institutions that would and do perpetuate institutionally racist policies.”

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The violence with which colonial control was reasserted in India forever shattered any illusions of British moral superiority. For most Muslims, Europe’s civilizing mission in the Middle East was revealed for what it truly was: an ideology of political and economic dominance achieved through brutal military might. The ideals of the Enlightenment, w

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The notion of ‘Western civilisation’ – as the inheritor of Greek thought, Roman law and Anglo-Saxon adventurism – was propagated as the ‘central force for progress’ following the Renaissance and then taught and studied by the elite in Europe as ‘the classics’ since the Enlightenment. All other (often grander) civilisations such as the Indian, Islam

The double standard applied to Israel endangers the rule of law and the credibility of international institutions.