Deniers of Serbia's War Crimes:
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Dunbar-Ortiz as Milosevic Apologist
She endorses denial of a humanitarian catastrophe created by Serbia in Kosovo
before NATO intervention.
While she opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestine,
she was unable to oppose Serbian atrocities in Kosovo, making common cause
with Serbian nationalists and some Western intellectuals who excuse the
actions of the Milosevic regime and
its expansionist, anti-Muslim campaign to consolidate its power.
By Roger Lippman, Balkan Witness editor, November 26, 2017
Of Rose-Coloured Glasses, Old and New
On 18 September 2021, the Qiao Collective co-organised an all-day conference on
the topic of ‘China and the Left: A Socialist Forum’ (The People’s Forum 2021).
The speakers, who participated either in person or via Zoom, included scholars
of China but also noted ‘leftist’ intellectuals, from Vijay Prashad to
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
and Radhika Desai. The forum was co-sponsored by Monthly
Review,
the People’s Forum, and Codepink. The Qiao Collective (2021)—a ‘volunteer-run
group of diaspora Chinese writers, artists, and researchers working to challenge
escalating Western imperialism on China’—has in the past two years evolved from
a Twitter account to a full-blown online publication and has become a loud
pro-China voice in the United States and in global political discourse. While
the various presenters at the forum took different approaches, and some
arguments were more nuanced than others, the overall tone was very supportive of
the current regime in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and extremely
critical of US policies in Asia as well as of Western media coverage of China.
Events like this exemplify what seems to be an increasingly visible and vocal
presence of pro-PRC positions within the so-called left, in the United States
but also worldwide.
Dunbar-Ortiz seems to run in the circle of people who
support regressive Chinese (and Serbian) policies because her vision of
anti-imperialism only applies to the US and not to other empire builders.
Made in China Journal, October 20, 2021
Dunbar-Ortiz offers comfort to Russia's
invasion Ukraine She tweets and signs letters opposing Western support for
Ukraine.
https://www.warresisters.org/stop-war-ukraine-calls-action
https://twitter.com/rdunbaro/status/1546906558381993984