Reflection: “Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines”

By Pierre Thompson, Class XV A victim of the government’s war on drugs made the front page of the Philippine Inquirer in July 2016. (Photo: R. Lerma, reproduced with permission) Since mid-2016, extrajudicial killings (EJK) associated with President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs have claimed more than seven thousand lives, according to Amnesty International, raising significant …

Pursuing Reconciliation, Resisting Normalization in Israel and Palestine

By Pierre Thompson, Class XV Palestinians held mass prayers in East Jerusalem for weeks as an act of civil disobedience, to boycott the metal detectors that Israel installed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. (Source: +972 Magazine) “In Jerusalem,” the historian Simon Montefiore notes, “the truth is often much less important than the myth.” Walking around the Old …