– 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 “In his passing, Refaat fulfilled his lifelong goal of raising awareness about Palestine. He became a story himself, a symbol of freedom and an icon cherished not only by his friends and […]
By Iqbal Jassat Pro-Apartheid Israel lobbies ranging from the SA Zionist Federation to the SA Jewish Board, have hysterically been profiling Hamas as a “terror” group. A tactic doomed to fail. Eleven years after the Palestinian […]
By Iqbal Jassat “A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the […]
By Iqbal Jassat Since international attention is focused on the tragic fate of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Northern Gaza, it is instructive to recall the history of the person after whom the facility is […]
By Iqbal Jassat Annually since 1947, October 27 is commemorated as one of the darkest days for the people of Kashmir. It was following the long freedom struggle from British colonial rule which resulted in […]
By Iqbal Jassat “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” – Pablo Neruda In a heart-wrenching tribute to Palestine’s heroic freedom fighter Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader Khalil Al Hayya […]
By Iqbal Jassat Will media platforms rise above Zionism’s propaganda-laden terms and vocabulary that seek to project the catastrophic loss of lives in Gaza as “Israel’s right to defend itself”? Adriaan Basson of News24 attempts […]
By Iqbal Jassat While the Friday attack is being claimed by Netanyahu to have targeted Hezbollah’s operation center, most mainstream media fail to mention that without American arms and ammunition, its client regime would not […]
By Iqbal Jassat The concept of an International Community ie the Western bloc of nation-states, representing the sum total of entire humanity, is baseless. To generate a false sense of it being “outlawed by the […]
By Iqbal Jassat Posing a challenge to Israelis, Levy says the time now is for them to ask themselves if they are willing to “live in a country that lives on blood”. In an astonishing […]
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 […]
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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