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Commentary
Pramila Patten’s Report on Sexual Violence: Nothing New, Hearsay only
By Blake Alcott Whatever the motives for the team’s accepting Israel’s invitation to come look at visuals and listen to reports, it has succeeded for now in further demonizing Palestinians, thus making it easier for […]
Cut From the Same Cloth: The United States and Israel in Palestine
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam After a half-century of steadfast support, it has become virtually impossible for Washington to imagine a regional reality that does not have Israel at its core. Revolutionaries in Iran in […]
On Solidarity and Kushner’s Shame: How Gaza Revitalized Global Solidarity
By Ramzy Baroud The critical mass for meaningful solidarity has finally been achieved, signaling that, once more, Palestinians have imposed themselves as the guardians of their own struggle. Jared Kushner, a former US official […]
From South Africa to Palestine: Israeli Apartheid Week 2024
By Benay Blend The larger problem in which apartheid remains a part is Zionism. For a sustainable peace to exist, Zionism must be dismantled, along with its racist structure. This year, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions […]
Sending an Important Message: Time to Target Liberal Ministers over Palestine
By Yves Engler Preparing such a campaign would send an important message to the Trudeau government. Successfully carrying it out would demonstrate there can be international human rights utility in engaging in electoral politics. Among […]
On Hypocrisy and Genocide – How Gaza Has Exposed the West Like Never Before
By Ramzy Baroud Now that some western leaders have begun to feel increasingly uncomfortable as the enormity of the Gaza genocide unfolds, a few, though bashfully, are declaring that Netanyahu may be ‘going too […]
The First Enemies: On Reading Joshua’s Mandate for Genocide
By Jeremy Salt Centuries later, this battle order is being followed up in Gaza, where the death and destruction also include the deliberate killing of men and women, children and infants, through starvation and disease. […]
End of Complicity: Time to Translate Words into Actions in Gaza
By Ramzy Baroud Indeed, it is now time to turn words into actions, especially when thousands of children are being killed for no fault of their own but for being born Palestinian. Left to […]
Sumud and Food: More Urgent Now than Ever
By Benay Blend For Palestinians, the term sumud translates as steadfastness, including a strong attachment to the land, even in exile, but also a mental state that leads to determined action. Defining sumud as inherently […]
An Arms Embargo on Israel is Crucial to Give Credence to ICJ Ruling on Genocide
By Iqbal Jassat All evidence points to the fact that not only has Israel disregarded the order, but has blatantly disregarded the ICJ ruling by intensifying its murderous campaign of genocide. Dubbed a mighty legal […]
A Locus of Instability – For Israel the Writing is on the Wall
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel is the creation of European colonialism and US imperialism. They have abetted and sustained a predatory settler-colonial regime and a society that has become adjusted to injustice. The October […]
Hind Rayan between Netanyahu’s Metaphysical Power and Western’s Reality Disconnect
By Jamal Kanj Unlike a privileged Israeli child who may have lived in Hind’s parent’s original home, Hind, born to two displaced parents endured a life of destitution, and was ultimately murdered by an Israeli […]
Zionism and the Annihilation of Gaza: The Problem in Palestine is Not Political, but Ideological
By Ramzy Baroud All of this – the language of genocide, the genocide itself and the threats of committing a greater genocide – is rooted, not in a rational political theory, but in Zionism. The problem is not the absence […]
Wounds of Hatred and Sorrow: Israel is Assaulting Hospitals in Gaza with Full US Support
By Kathy Kelly If we can’t find the morality to stop supplying weapons for ongoing Israeli onslaughts against Gaza and its places of healing, we may find we have created a world in which no-one […]
Genocide Begets Genocide: Rafah Waits for the Hammer to Fall
By Jeremy Salt Disgracefully, shamefully, favoring the perpetrator, as Rafah awaits its turn for the hammer to fall, western governments continue to shut their eyes to all of this. In Palestine, the descendants of the […]
Genocidal DNA: Depravity, Evil and Cowardice in the ‘West’ as well
By Jeremy Salt Western moral cowardice feeds this war as much as the arms flown or shipped into Israel by the US in a continuous cycle. Everything that needs to be said has been said. […]
On the Various Possibilities for the ‘Day After’ the Siege on Gaza Ends
By Benay Blend There are many external plans for Gaza on “the day after,” most of which take no notice of Palestinian agency or desire. Just as there are various possible outcomes, there are several […]
Amidst Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, Canadian NDP Leader Kowtows to Israel Lobby
By Yves Engler Amidst Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, the divide between Jagmeet Singh and NDP supporters, as well as his caucus, has become glaring. On Tuesday Singh once again followed the Israel lobby in smearing […]
The Injured Gaza Boy and His Drawing: Do Palestinians Have the Right to Self-Defense?
By Ramzy Baroud It is interesting how the colonizers and the colonized continue to build relations and solidarity around the same old principles. On February 8, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Washington on […]
Defunding UNRWA, International Law and Compelling Israel to Compliance
By Quraysha Ismail Sooliman Individuals with a deep sense of humanity find that the Gazan Genocide has fundamentally altered their perception, prompting a shift away from indoctrinated perspectives. South Africans, given their historical context, intimately […]
From South Africa to Palestine – ‘There is No Revolution without Song’
By Benay Blend Palestine has long been home to resistance music, too. In Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance (2023), Louis Brehony chronicles the history of Palestinian music in refugee camps close to Palestine, […]
Conflict in Palestine: From the Lens of an Eritrean-American Teen
By Abel Semere Editor’s Note: Abel Semere is a young Eritrean-American writer. Like millions of youth around the world, Semere wants to send a message of solidarity to Gaza and the Palestinian people during this […]
Breaching the ‘Iron Wall’: How Palestinians Crushed Jabotinsky’s Century-Old Ideas
By Ramzy Baroud The fact that Israeli ministers and other leading politicians quickly began advancing plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza immediately after October 7, indicates that Zionism has never abandoned those early […]
A Techno-Barbaric State – Time’s up, Israel
By Jeremy Salt With no peaceful options left, the pendulum swings back to the war already being fought by the ‘axis of resistance’ and likely to widen into a regional war at any moment. There […]
‘From Here, from Gaza’ – Enough, Stop the Genocide Now
By Shahd Safi – Gaza From here, from Gaza, the quest for evidence of Israel’s genocide looks like a futile exercise. Don’t we have all the evidence of our eyes and ears, our hearts and […]
Defunding UNRWA: The Last Phase of Israeli Genocide
By Jamal Kanj Even if Israeli allegations against a handful of low-level individuals held some validity, why should UNRWA be responsible for a conduct carried out by employees outside their working hours, and not associated […]
‘How Long? Not Long’ – Tomorrow Belongs to Palestine
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam From its inception, Israel has sought to remove the native population and build a settler state on Palestinian land. Its leaders have used international organizations and the Western powers that […]
The ICJ and The Dichotomy Between The Genocide Victims and The Perpetrators
By Jamal Kanj The West faces two options: either compel Israeli compliance or make a mockery of international law, thereby deepening the rift between the genocide victims and the perpetrators. The interim findings of the […]
Europe’s Moral Crisis: Is the EU a Direct Partner in the Israeli Genocide in Gaza?
By Ramzy Baroud This is not a simple case of Western double standards. Israel sees Europe as a lackey, though Europe, collectively, carries significant economic weight. Europe stayed silent when Israel began pounding the […]
ICJ Ruling is Not Good Enough, and This is the Way Forward – ILAN PAPPE
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle If committed activists needed an additional reason for why what they are doing is essential and just, then the ICJ’s ruling is a chilling reminder of what […]