By Joharah Baker Why is it that when a Palestinian motorist approaches a checkpoint, he or she instinctively slows down, rolls down the window and reaches into their pocket to pull out their ID card […]

By Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dutch MP Geert Wilders’ comparison of the Quran to Mein Kampf is deeply offensive and betrays a profound ignorance of Islam. Wilders is now claiming to have produced a film in […]

By Rannie Amiri Seasoned Middle East observers have long been familiar with the contempt the United States holds for genuine democracy in the region, despite the equally familiar rhetoric and platitudes to the contrary. One […]

By Mats Svensson A while ago there was a big enough opening in the wall for a car to pass through. Now it is closed. The place is almost empty of people. A young man […]

By Kevin B. Zeese In the last two weeks Senator Obama has been sounding rather hawkish. Perhaps he believes he has the Democratic nomination wrapped up and now can start running to the center-right. The […]

By Eileen Fleming in Jerusalem On April 3, 2008, the Associated Press in Jerusalem reported, "An Israeli wrecking crew knocked down Shadi Hamdan’s home in an Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem in just a couple of […]

By Najwa Sheikh in Gaza It is March, the month of flowers, and good weather, however since yesterday it was burning, with hot dry winds. I thought summer is coming so fast this year, and […]

[This article is written by Beenish Gaya, the sister of one of the accused in the infamousToronto 18 case, that of 18 local Torontonians who have been arrested, accused and ‘charged’ since June 2nd, 2006: […]

By Larry Adams, Michael Letwin, and Brenda StokelyNew York City Labor Against the War (To endorse the following statement, please go to: petitiononline.com/Gaza/petition.html) New York City Labor Against the War joins the Congress of South […]

By Jim Miles Bad Samaritans – The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. Ha-Joon Chang. Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2008. Every now and then a ‘prize’ of a book comes along […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The two day-Arab League summit meeting held in Damascus last March called on Israel to accept the Arab land-for-peace initiative that had been offered by Saudi Arabia in 2002 to solve […]

By Osama Al Sharif To say that time is running out for a just and peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict is a gross understatement. But it is a fact that few in today’s world […]

By Caelum Moffatt When people around the world read about the international deeds of ‘America’ or the ‘US’ in the newspaper or watch their interaction with other countries on TV, the interested party will invariably […]

By Ghassan Khatib Since the violent Hamas takeover of Gaza some nine months ago, the US, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have all seemed to follow roughly the same strategy to reverse both Hamas’ control […]

By Motasem Dalloul in Gaza At 12 years old, Malak goes out with her father to help him collected wood near the Gaza-Israeli border. The Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip has left her father […]