– Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of the South Africa-based Media Review Network. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle. Visit: www.mediareviewnet.com
By Iqbal Jassat Bravo to Sarah Friedland’s courage and honesty for using her acceptance speech at the Venice Film Festival to voice her support for Palestinians facing what she accurately described as Israel’s genocide in […]
By Iqbal Jassat The much-vaunted “total victory” of “defeating Hamas” and “freeing the hostages”, was an unrealistic and unattainable military objective as has been proven by the resilience of the resistance led by Sinwar. Haunted […]
By Iqbal Jassat “When I arrived at the site of the massacre, I was unable to speak. There were body parts and blood all around us, and the corpses were dismembered and piled on top […]
By Iqbal Jassat The extra-judicial assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran literally hours after the bombing in South Lebanon is the most recent demonstration of the impunity of Israeli terrorism. If terrorism is […]
By Iqbal Jassat Unlike the past, Israel’s gruesome violence and defiance of international laws, are vividly displayed on television screens throughout the world. Aiding and abetting Israel’s Illegal occupation of Palestinian Territories has been outlawed […]
By Iqbal Jassat The diehard supporters of settler colonialism even resort to insulting the integrity of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a “partisan institution”. Once again and on cue, South Africa’s shameless pro-Apartheid […]
By Iqbal Jassat Though a blanket of secrecy has shrouded the settler colonial regime’s notorious black hole known as Sde Teiman, it does not behoove media platforms to allow a conspiracy of silence to prevent […]
By Iqbal Jassat Has Helen Zille emerged as a leading agitator to reverse South Africa’s groundbreaking efforts in solidarity with Palestine’s freedom struggle against Zionism’s illegal settler colonial regime? Her demands on the African National […]
By Iqbal Jassat As the Lebanese movement Hezbollah raises the stakes in its battle with the Israeli settler colonial regime, alarm bells are ringing in despotic Arab regimes. After all, many of these reactionary governments […]
By Iqbal Jassat Abbas, whose four-year term expired in 2009, has stubbornly refused to accept demands for fresh elections. In effect, the general view is that he has shut the door on reform of the […]
By Iqbal Jassat Noncompliance by Israel ought to render it a pariah regime, subject to global isolation, boycott and sanctions, yet we find that as Netanyahu defiantly intensifies the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Has the […]
By Iqbal Jassat Karim Khan has committed a grave error by unfairly positioning victims of Zionist colonialism on an equal footing with merciless perpetrators of genocide. Widespread suspicion that International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan […]
By Iqbal Jassat Nzimande’s sharp criticism singled out powerful western nations for providing Israel with financial, military and diplomatic backing. In a refreshing article, Blade Nzimande, South Africa’s minister of higher education, science and technology, […]
By Iqbal Jassat While Biden is battling to retain his political office, student protests across US universities demanding sanctions and divestments, have added to his woes. Is US President Joe Biden between a rock and […]
By Iqbal Jassat It is abundantly clear that despite various attempts by the apartheid regime to garner and maintain global support for its terrorism in Gaza, it has turned out to be a dismal failure. […]
By Iqbal Jassat Skeptics who may argue that Iran’s attack was a failure, either ignore or deliberately obfuscate the new reality of deterrence injected by the Islamic Republic. The eve of April 14, 2024, and […]
By Iqbal Jassat As expected, the “ceasefire resolution” has got the world abuzz and, though Hamas has welcomed it by thanking the UN Security Council, the occupying regime is deeply unhappy and distressed by it. […]
By Iqbal Jassat Whatever the case, Karen Milner’s broadside against Minister Naledi Pandor, has all the elements of anger and despair. The next time I’m asked to comment on the ferocious attacks by pro-Israel supporters […]
By Iqbal Jassat Given his close association with the settler colonial regime, it is indisputable that Kushner has a vested interest in Netanyahu’s ongoing genocide. Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is known to be […]
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 […]
By Iqbal Jassat As global outrage continues to escalate against the slaughter of Palestinians in besieged Gaza by the settler colonial regime, it is necessary to glance back at Africa, where the first genocide of […]
By Iqbal Jassat South Africa’s opposition political party the Democratic Alliance (DA), has done no more than mealy-mouth talk of “peace”. Whenever South Africa’s opposition political party the Democratic Alliance (DA), widely perceived and known […]
By Iqbal Jassat Against this background, it makes perfect sense for Hamas to undertake creative means to break the crippling siege. Resistance or armed struggle by guerilla movements engaged in asymmetrical combat against rogue regimes, […]
By Iqbal Jassat It is precisely what Netanyahu has failed to envisage, the end result of his disastrous military campaign of genocide in Gaza. As the colonial entity Israel, which was illegally birthed by the […]
By Iqbal Jassat Whatever spin emanates from the settler-colonial regime’s Hasbara (propaganda) unit to project the merciless slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as a “War on Hamas”, must be rejected with disdain. It is an […]
By Iqbal Jassat While Israelis enjoyed and continue to benefit from unhindered travel access to South Africa, Palestinians were denied this right. The reversal of Visa restrictions on Palestinians seeking to travel to South Africa, […]
By Iqbal Jassat Horrific details of the traumatic humiliation a group of Palestinian women experienced at the hands of Israeli troops who forced them to strip naked, has not only been a shocking episode but […]
By Iqbal Jassat Regrettably, most mainstream media has bolstered this faulty image, notwithstanding the fact that the regime of General el-Sisi is undoubtedly one of the most repressive in the world. Has South African media […]
By Iqbal Jassat It is not uncommon for Modi to publicly make bizarre islamophobic statements that inevitably spill over into disastrous anti-Muslim riots. In one such callous speech, he linked India’s historic Muslim icons to […]
By Iqbal Jassat As most of the world recoils in horror watching deliberately calculated Israeli brutality and cold-blooded killing of Palestinians, many who are outraged would be asking: when will Zionist-led pogroms end? After all, […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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