The 20th century’s greatest footballer, Diego Armando Maradona, died in San Andrés, Argentina, at the age of 60. The Argentine Football Association reported that the cause of death was cardiac arrest. Maradona has been struggling […]
Palestine: a carpet of cadavers, a swamp of blood, a garden of ashen smoke. Olive green of missiles, iron fists of tanks, the blue-black of high caliber guns – Can a place be mangled by […]
Following my Facebook posting earlier this month in which I applauded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for his firm stance against “normalization” with Israel, a friend posed an interesting query. He asked whether it’s true […]
A Palestinian court yesterday held the first session to review a lawsuit filed against the British government over its crimes in Palestine during the British Mandate between 1917- 1948 and the Balfour Declaration which promised […]
In a popular song from the mid-60s, there is a reference to the changing times—grocery stores that become super marts, cars built to go “faster all the time.” Nevertheless, at the same time, some things […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday condemned Israel for its violations of health rights in the Palestinian territories and in the occupied Golan Heights during the coronavirus pandemic. Representatives from dozens of countries, including Malaysia, […]
US President Donald Trump has arguably been the most staunch supporter of the state of Israel than any other US president since the launch of the so-called peace process in the early 1990s. Now that […]
Democratic party candidate Iman Jodeh has been selected as the congresswoman for the Colorado House of Representatives beating Republican candidate Robert Andrews in the polls yesterday. Commenting on the news on Twitter, Jodeh wrote: “We […]
On the eve of the US elections, tensions are very high. Concerns range from right-wing violence at the polls to the fear of a contested election in which the conservative Supreme Court might be the […]
Veteran foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk has passed away at his home near Dublin of a suspected stroke. According to the Irish Times, the 74-year-old was admitted to St Vincent’s Private Hospital after becoming […]
(Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on The Tragedy of Israel-Palestine. Richard Forer. Mindstir Media, 2020) Bookshelves are overflowing with books on Palestine and Israel. One might imagine that there are no new angles […]
This reading of history is substantially but not wholly based on Elizabeth Monroe’s book Philby of Arabia (London: Quartet Books, 1973). With the exception of Kim Philby’s references to his wife, his father, and his […]
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi became the second member of the PLO’s Executive Committee to test positive for Coronavirus, the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA reported on Monday. Ashrawi, a renowned Palestinian politician, leader and intellectual is […]
Libya on Tuesday refused to assume the presidency of the current session of the Arab League after Palestine resigned the position in protest at the organization’s failure to take a stand against the UAE-Bahrain normalization […]
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture has mourned Palestinian artist Mohammad Joulani who died on Friday at the age of 37, saying “his passing constitutes a loss for the Palestinian artistic and cultural scene.” Born in […]
The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, passed away at the age of 91. Known for his ceaseless diplomatic effort to bridge the gap between conflicting Arab countries, and for his strong solidarity […]
The right of the Palestinian people to have a state with Jerusalem as its capital is not subject to bargain, the Algerian president said on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s remarks came at a speech […]
Palestine can never be truly understood through numbers, because numbers are dehumanizing, impersonal, and, when necessary, can also be contrived to mean something else entirely. Numbers are not meant to tell the story of the […]
“The feed is wild right now and the record – on police violence, criminal justice, racism, and Indigenous sovereignty – does not justify the adoration. At all,” wrote Onyesonwu Chatoyer, organizer for the All African […]
Reports in the Times of Israel indicate that the annexation of land from the occupied West Bank will be suspended until 2024, confirming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that annexation is still on the agenda. With […]
On this day, September 16, in 1982, several thousand Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon were brutally massacred by the Lebanese phalange militias at the behest of the Israeli military, which […]
The Palestinian resistance movements have called for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to withdraw its membership from the Arab League after its disavowal to support the Palestinian cause and fight normalization with Israel, Anadolu Agency reported. […]
The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, Guo Wei, and the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, have signed a contribution […]
Predictably, Donald Trump’s Senior Adviser Jared Kushner exhibited no historical discernment when justifying the normalisation of relations between Israel and the UAE, and how this will affect the Palestinian people’s political rights. Palestinians, he declared, should […]
Senior officials from Fatah and Hamas, along with those from other Palestinian organizations, are discussing the creation of committees to expedite the decisions taken at the secretary general-level meeting held in Beirut last week. On […]
In The Future Home of the Living God (2017), Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe) writes of a dystopic future that might as easily be today. In Erdrich’s novel, Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted Ojibwe child of Minneapolis liberals, […]
The United States has officially sanctioned International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for investigating war crimes committed by the US and its allies. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has also said that Phakiso Mochochoko, […]
In perfect synchronization with Israeli lobbying at an international level, pro-Israel organizations in the US have influenced Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden to remove references to the “occupation” from the party’s political platform. Biden’s intervention […]
The notion that ‘Canada is better’, especially when compared with US foreign policy, has persisted for many years. Recent events at the United Nations have, however, exposed the true nature of Canada’s global position, particularly […]
Silent Watch Speech is out of the question. she can tell you everything she needs to with her eyes— At noon, they are pointing out a sniper—and his shadow— watching us eat lunch through a […]
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