Reviewed by Eric Walberg  (Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Sharia Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World. Sadakat Kadri. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) There […]

By Ramzy Baroud A new Egypt demands a new constitution and president. Many pressing questions also need to be addressed, including the religious-secular divide, the value of Sharia in the making of law, citizenship, minority […]

By Neve Gordon – Be’er-Sheva, Israel South Africa’s recent demand that products originating in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights remove the label "Made in Israel" is extremely significant – much […]

By Jim Miles ‘Scare the hell out of the American people.’ — Senator Arthur Vandenburg, 1947. ‘It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which […]

By Johan Galtung The multi-season Arab Spring is the third anti-imperialist Arab revolt in less than a century: against the Ottoman empire, the Western Italian-French-English empire, and now the US-Israel empire. The empires hit back. […]

By Brian Terrell The United States District Courthouse in Jefferson City, Missouri, is a modern and graceful structure sitting on a bluff over the Missouri River. Less than one year old, it is a virtual […]

By IRIN A hunger strike by about 1,550 Palestinians in Israeli prisons ended with an agreement on 14 May, in which Israel committed to meeting some of the prisoners’ demands in exchange for security guarantees. […]

By Yacov Ben Efrat – Israel The demonstration of June 9 marking 45 years of Occupation connects the struggle against the Occupation with the struggle for social justice, sharpening the debate over whether the “social” […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘There was no honour left; ruin and war and the blood was flowing … Sadness, hate and the reign of arbitrary destruction.’ – (Rachid Taha, Algerian Musician and lyricist, 1958-:) Shocking details […]

By Tariq Shadid The Israeli colonization of Palestine continues unabated, and the political show that protects and enables it has become a boring and repetitive charade. At the same time, it serves to feed the […]

By Uri Avnery Thirty years ago this week, the Israeli army crossed into Lebanon and started the most stupid war in Israel’s history. It lasted for 18 years. About 1500 Israeli soldiers and untold numbers […]

By Sami Zaatari On Tuesday, U.S. White House Spokesperson Jay Carney informed the media that Al-Qaeda’s second in command was killed in a drone strike in North Wazirstan, an area well known to be inhabited […]

By Stuart Littlewood The Queen’s Jubilee generated a week of intensely loyal outpourings and a feast of pageantry. What did this express? Loyalty to the Crown? Loyalty to the monarch? Loyalty to the flag? Loyalty […]

By Jamal Kanj Last Tuesday was the 45th anniversary of the outbreak of a war between Egypt and Israel that would reshape the Middle East. At 7.30am, on June 5, 1967, 200 Israeli fighter jets […]

The Rt. Hon. Alistair Burt, M.P.,Under Secretary of State,Foreign and Commonwealth Office,King Charles Street,London SW1A 2AH. Dear Mr Burt, Re: Mahmoud al Sarsak. As Minister with responsibility for the Middle East and North Africa, the […]

By Tamar Fleishman ‘Jerusalem Day’ was celebrated this year, marking forty five years of occupation. About a third of the city’s residents are excluded from the celebrations, speeches and promises that speak of: "(Jerusalem) forever and […]

By Ramzy Baroud The conflict in Syria is giving way to a troubling phenomenon of hastily drawn sectarian lines throughout the Middle East. A perpetual and repugnant war is likely to replace the collective aspirations […]

By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Throughout their revolution Yemenis have demanded greater attention from the international community and Western media. Seemingly left behind or forgotten in the wider revolutionary wave sweeping across the region, […]

By Jehan Bseiso Cemeteries in Palestinian Camps Short on Space The cemeteries are full – In Lebanon, Jordan, Syria We will soon bury Palestinians above ground. Nowhere to live and now, No quiet place to die, with dignity. Raise high […]

By Ramzy Baroud On June 4, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 81 days of a grueling hunger strike. He had sustained the strike despite the fact that nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates had […]

Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Norman G. Finkelstein, Knowing too much. Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End, OR Books, New York-London 2012, 472 pp.) The more danger, the more honor […]