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Colonialism
Martin Luther King, Ahmad Sa’adat, and the Resilience of Political Prisoners
By Benay Blend In August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter in response to a public statement of concern and caution by eight white religious leaders from the American South. January 16, 2023, […]
Protesting ‘Violent Settler Colonialist’ Regavim is Not Antisemitic
By Yves Engler Has the extreme right gone mainstream in Canada’s pro-Israel community? A number of prominent figures in Toronto’s Jewish establishment have rallied to support a “settler colonial NGO” set up by a racist […]
Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West
By Ramzy Baroud Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 16 has become a social […]
Reflections from Gaza after Israel’s Elections
By Haidar Eid When my refugee students ask me about the meaning of “Orientalism,” I tell them to look at Israel. Prejudice, fantasies, and racist clichés purveyed by Zionism about Palestinians and Arabs and […]
From Leonard Peltier to The Holy Land Five: Free All Political Prisoners
By Benay Blend In “Palestinians are Native Americans: Time to Correct the Language of History,” Dr. Ramzy Baroud traces the historic bonds between Palestinians and Native Americans, both participants in international Indigenous struggles across the […]
Dismantling Israeli Settler Colonialism: In Conversation with Francesca Albanese (PODCAST)
By Paul Salvatori In this episode of ‘Palestine In Perspective’, host and Toronto-based writer for The Palestine Chronicle, Paul Salvatori, talks with Francesca Albanese—current United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights […]
The ‘Principal Threat’: Time to Talk about the Palestinian Class Struggle
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo On Monday, October 31, Palestinians in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of Occupied East Jerusalem, observed a general strike. The strike was declared to be part of the community’s […]
UN’s Francesca Albanese Calls for Paradigm Shift to End Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestine
By Iqbal Jassat Described as a “game changer”, the latest report on Palestine by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPT), has been welcomed as a breath of fresh air by […]
UN Special Rapporteur New Report Calls for ‘Dismantling of Israeli Settler-Colonial Occupation’
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has submitted her much-anticipated report to the UN General Assembly, concluding that the realization of […]
Whitewashing the Monarchy and the Zionist Regime: Two Sides of the Same Blood-Soaked Coin
By Benay Blend “We do not mourn the death of Elizabeth, because to us her death is a reminder of a very tragic period in this country and Africa’s history,” declared Julius Malema, head of […]
Palestine in the Elizabethan Era: Will Britain Atone for Its Sinful Policies
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle While millions of people in Britain and around the world can not stop singing the praises of the late Queen as a paragon of moderation, sensibility, and […]
The Post-Oslo Social Economy: An Analysis
By Omar Zahzah “It’s classic Fanon, if you think about it,” Palestinian writer Yara Hawari, Senior Analyst of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, remarked in 2018 about the 25th anniversary Oslo Accords. “It’s like, Let’s […]
Israel Threatens Russia with ‘Consequences’ amid Jewish Agency Row
The anticipated closure of The Jewish Agency in Russia will have a serious impact on Russia-Israel relations, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid warned Russia on Sunday. The quasi-governmental organization, which promotes Jewish migration to Israel, […]
The Hundred Year War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
By Jim Miles (The Hundred Year War on Palestine – A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2020.) With the writing of “The Hundred […]
A Tale of Two Killings: On the ‘Bone Deep’ Ties Between Israel and the United States
By Benay Blend “While it is of its time, specific to the political and economic circumstances of Kanafani’s era,” writes Steven Salaita in the introduction to Ghassan Kanafani’s On Zionist Literature (2022), “it speaks to […]
Worsening Chaos: Israel’s Political Instability is Now the Norm
By Ramzy Baroud The collapse of the short-lived Israeli government of Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid validates the argument that the political crisis in Israel was not entirely instigated and sustained by former Israeli […]
Advocating for Palestine in Canada: Histories, Movements, Actions – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Advocating for Palestine in Canada – Histories, Movements, Actions. Ed.: Emily Wills, Jeremy Wildeman, Michael Beuckert, Nadia Abu-Zahra. Fernwood Publishing, Halifax/Winnipeg, 2022.) Different groups advocate for Palestine from a variety of perspectives […]
Blaming Palestinians: Italian Politician Attacks UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine in Parliament (VIDEO)
By Romana Rubeo On July 6, the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Parliament held an informal audit with Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the […]
Connecting the Dots: The Liberationist Ethos of the Mapping Project
By Omar Zahzah Many of us can recall some of the most famous sayings of the revolutionary Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani, but current events are also providing each one of us dedicated to Palestinian liberation […]
‘If Only the Natives Had Stayed Silent’: On Responding to Settler Colonialism
By Benay Blend In an American History class that I taught at the local community college, a student made a comment that has stayed with me all these years. To paraphrase, he explained that if […]
It’s the Palestinian, not the Israeli Flag, that Should Be Raised at Toronto’s City Hall
By Paul Salvatori Toronto Mayor, John Tory, is disingenuous. Honoring Israel’s ‘Independence Day’ at City Hall this week, he emphasized: “There have been days, far too many of them where Jewish Torontonians felt insecure […]
‘Our Nakba and Their Independence’: On the Problem with the Zionists’ Version of Two Narratives
By Benay Blend “Israelis celebrate their Independence Day,” Dareen Tatour explains, “but it comes with celebrating the suffering of our ancestors, the displacement of our people and the memory of massacres perpetrated against us over […]
British War Mongers Must Be Reigned In and Held To Account
By Iqbal Jassat Dramatic political events in the last few days, ranging from what many pundits describe as a coup in Pakistan to the intensity of armed resistance within the Occupied Palestinian Territories against Israeli […]
Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History
By Ramzy Baroud When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to […]
Affirming Global Indigenous Joint Struggle: The Palestinian Right of Return is Landback
By Omar Zahzah A History-Making Paper On March 30, 2022, on the occasion of Palestinian Land Day, the Indigenous organization NDN Collective released a history-making position paper affirming the interconnectedness of the Palestinian struggle to […]
Palestine is a Loud Echo of Britain’s Colonial Past – and a Warning of the Future
By Jonathan Cook [This is a transcript of a talk I gave to Bath Friends of Palestine on 25 February 2022.] Since I arrived with my family in the UK last summer, I have been […]
On Making Land Day 2022 an International Movement of Resistance
By Benay Blend On March 30, 1976, Israeli police murdered six Palestinian civilians while they were protesting further expropriation of Palestinian land. Since that date, March 30 has been commemorated as Land Day, in honor […]
French Withdrawal from Mali Will Redraw the Political Map of West Africa
By Ramzy Baroud Finally, France will be leaving Mali, nearly a decade after the original military intervention in 2013. The repercussions of this decision will hardly be confined to this West African nation, but […]
On Palestine’s Everyday Victories: Why Israel is No Longer the Exception
By Ramzy Baroud Can Israel be pressured? Or is Tel Aviv the only exception to the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to pressures and subsequent change in […]
Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism
By Ramzy Baroud The current split in the African Union (AU) over Israel’s Observer membership status is emblematic of a larger conflict that could potentially split the African continent’s largest political institutions. Africa is […]