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No Blood for Oil: Pope Francis Should Kiss Iraqi Soil

March 4, 2021

Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team. We were 73 people from fifteen different countries, aged 22 to 76, living […]

Ready to Work with Netanyahu: Mansour Abbas Splinters Arab Vote in Israel

March 3, 2021

At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and ideological divisions which have afflicted the Arab body politic for many […]

Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy

March 2, 2021

On February 4, representatives from the Palestinian Movement, Hamas, visited Moscow to inform the Russian government of the latest development on the unity talks between the Islamic Movement and its Palestinian counterparts, especially Fatah. This […]

Israeli Apartheid Week 2021: Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition

March 1, 2021

“Make no mistake,” wrote Nerdeen Kiswani, “it is because of white supremacy that Black people are all too familiar with, that they recognize and even are affected by Zionist white supremacy as well.” For that […]

Not a Defeated People: On Baroud’s ‘These Chains Will Be Broken’

February 28, 2021

Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s prior books have examined many aspects of Palestinian life, within the homeland as refugees and in the extended Diaspora. In his latest work, ‘These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle […]

Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma

February 28, 2021

What is taking place in Burma right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government by military decree and the imposition […]

‘Agenda Item 7’ Highlights UN Inaction over Israeli Colonization

February 27, 2021

The US has asked to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council in another move that, superficially at least, spells a departure from the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the institution. However, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken […]

Imagining Palestine: On Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the Language of Exile

February 24, 2021

For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a casual topic pertaining to politics and international law, either. Nor is […]

‘Facebook, We Have to Talk’: On Distinguishing Anti-Semitism from Anti-Zionism in Public Spaces

February 22, 2021

In January 2021, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) announced a global campaign “Facebook, we need to talk” about the social media giant’s inquiry into whether criticism of the movement Zionism “falls within the rubric of […]

Biden has Reassured Netanyahu that the Status Quo is Safe

February 21, 2021

With US President Joe Biden’s first call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now out of the way, the first inklings of the new administration’s diplomacy regarding Palestine and Israel have been made public. Biden, it seems, […]

Why Politicians and Doctors Keep Ignoring the Medical Research on Vitamin D and Covid

February 21, 2021

It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted year, during which politicians and many doctors have ignored […]

UAE’s Notorious Penal Code Limiting Free Speech Has Severe Implications for Expats Including South Africans

February 19, 2021

South African expats residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), be warned: overzealous securocrats in the Gulf oligarchies are watching you and all foreign migrants, ready to pounce if you dare to criticize any of […]

The US is Duplicitous over Jerusalem, but the PA Stays Silent

February 18, 2021

The Biden administration is adopting a confusing position regarding Jerusalem, signaling a possible effort to square the circle of taking the US back to the fold of international consensus on Palestine and Israel, while maintaining […]

Re-Marketing ‘Racist-Zionism’ and Manufacturing Double White Privilege-Plus

February 18, 2021

Zionist Colonialism Vs The Post-War Consensus. At just over the 52nd minute of the 1967 film thriller Funeral in Berlin’, a female character who’d been seducing British agent Harry Palmer (played by Michael Caine) confesses […]

‘Leaving Aside’ International Law: Why Democrats are as Dangerous as Republicans to a Just Peace in Palestine

February 17, 2021

Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former US President Donald Trump, many analysts have rashly painted a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly erase the bleak trajectory of the previous Republican administration. This naivety […]

American Empire: A Global History – Book Review

February 16, 2021

(American Empire: A Global History.  A. G. Hopkins. Princeton University Press.  Princeton & Oxford, 2018.) Most recent works on the United States accept that it is an empire, perhaps not in the traditional landholding sense, […]

Zionists’ Efforts to Coopt the BLM Movement: Can Racists Be Anti-Racist?

February 14, 2021

On February 6, 2021, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza announced that she was pulling out of a World Values Network online gala with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a prominent American Zionist. “They approached me about […]

The IHRA Antisemitism Definition and Racism

February 14, 2021

On Thursday, February 11, the Foundation for Middle East Peace held a webinar  concerning the IHRA definition and ‘examples’ of antisemitism. The participants were all progressive Jews from the United States and Canada. While the […]

Europe Will Redefine Itself Despite the Political Shift in the US

February 13, 2021

Despite the long-awaited political change in Washington as Democratic President, Joe Biden, has officially become the 46th President of the United States, Europe is unlikely to resume its previously unhindered reliance on its trans-Atlantic partner. […]

The Guardian Revealed Its True Face in Sacking a Columnist for Criticizing US Military Aid to Israel

February 12, 2021

The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticizing Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian […]

The Russian Alternative: How Moscow is Capitalizing on US Retreat in Palestine, Israel

February 10, 2021

Israeli anxiety was palpable when it was reported that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not contacted by the new American President, Joe Biden, for days after the latter’s inauguration. While much is being read […]

I am a Jew and I Want Palestinians Heard in Court

February 8, 2021

I am not Palestinian but I was a witness to the assault of 2014. I want its alleged war crimes to be prosecuted by the International Criminal Court. Those warriors who were ‘brave’ enough to […]

Israel’s Crimes, Legitimacy and Free Speech

February 8, 2021

Israel is waging an intense campaign against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, a nonviolent campaign called for by Palestinian civil society in 2005. This Movement was modeled on the campaign against South African Apartheid. […]

Our Mutual Fight: The Case against Pakistani Normalization with Israel

February 6, 2021

The Pakistani government should never, under any circumstances and no matter the pressure, normalize with Israel. Doing so is not only dangerous – as it will embolden an already vile, racist, violent apartheid Israel – […]

‘What About the Other Side?’: Notes on ‘The Devil’s Advocate’

February 4, 2021

The late historian Howard Zinn once said that sometimes there are not two sides to a question. In A People’s History of the United States (2003), Zinn writes that one reason that “atrocities are still […]

‘Freedom is Never Voluntarily Given’: Palestinian Boycott of Israel is Not Racist, It is Anti-Racist

February 3, 2021

Claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly, ‘The Forward’, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the US discourse on Palestine […]

A New US Foreign Policy: Biden Must Seize the Opportunity

February 1, 2021

President Biden has inherited a terribly flawed US foreign policy. For the past few decades, the pro-corporate US foreign policy has been a catastrophic failure, especially in the Middle East. Our criminal military interventions there […]

‘Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free’: On Extending the Holocaust Day of Remembrance

January 29, 2021

In a speech entitled “Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free” (1971), Fannie Lou Hamer told the National Women’s Political Caucus that black and white women had to work together in order to achieve freedom for all. […]

B’Tselem’s Historic Declaration: Israel’s Open War on Its Own Civil Society

January 27, 2021

“A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid,” was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. No matter how one is […]

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On the High Cost of Solidarity: Joe Biden, Palestine and The Left

January 26, 2021

“As Palestinians,” writes Zarefah Baroud, “we are taught to comply with our oppression for the sake of a peace we won’t be included in. Unlearn this,” she suggests, and moreover, “when a Zionist is elected, […]

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