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 Ramzy Baroud Nuseirat, like Gaza, is a representation of a culture that cannot be broken, no matter the firepower, or the extent of the massacres. I clearly remember my first day at an […]
By Benay Blend Calling for Palestinians to decide their future is the only suitable form of peace with justice, with an emphasis on the latter to ensure that the former is sustainable and self-determined. In […]
By Yves Engler The real scandal is how journalists either instigated or allowed themselves to be used to undermine a discussion about unlawful activity that costs taxpayers tens of millions of dollars each year to […]
By Ramzy Baroud Netanyahu does not seem to have an actual plan for Gaza, neither for now nor after the war. So, he prolongs the war despite the fact that his army is exhausted, […]
By Blake Alcott Colonized have been fighting colonizers for millennia. Not because the colonizers were Christian Crusaders or Moslem Tatars, or Buddhists, or French, Belgian, British or German, but rather because of what colonizing is: […]
By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies The United States seems determined to share Israel’s self-inflicted isolation from voices calling for peace from all over the world. On June 13, Hamas responded to persistent needling by […]
By Ramzy Baroud For some in the west, the issue is not just about the Gaza genocide. It is also about the future of the west itself. On June 6, Spain joined South Africa’s […]
By Jeremy Salt After Gaza, what hope can there be for any kind of peace with Israel? What did the 1990s ‘peace process’ do except leave the Palestinians far worse off than before? The news […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The radical and profound change in the region’s social, political and economic order can only come about if the United States departs, Zionism ends and Palestinians return to a free […]
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 Benay Blend The mainstream women’s movement in the United States has a long history of being less than inclusive of women whose history differs from their own. Several weeks ago I submitted a chapter […]
By Ramzy Baroud Israel now stands in near-complete isolation, due, in part, to its genocide in Gaza but also to the courage and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and to the global solidarity with […]
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 Ramzy Baroud The Israeli leader is just buying time, though. Israel’s top generals and military experts and analysts know that the war has been lost and that prolonging it will not, in any […]
By Jamal Kanj It is a clear case of cognitive dissonance when Western powers provide food aid to alleviate the Israeli-made famine while supplying the means for Israel to perpetuate a starvation regime, and the […]
By Jeremy Salt Benjamin Netanyahu is a major war criminal. Australians don’t need the International Criminal Court to tell them he is a criminal. Opportunism, hypocrisy, manipulation, and deceit come quickly to mind when delving […]
By Benay Blend At the core of the novel there is a central question: What do we inherit from our ancestors, and what do we leave behind? At first glance, Steven Salaita’s Daughter, Son, Assassin […]
By Ramzy Baroud The persistence of Palestinians and the massive solidarity they have obtained from countries throughout the Global South, eventually paid off. Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that […]
By Yves Engler Every year Canadian taxpayers are on the hook for about a hundred million dollars in subsidy to a country with a GDP per capita equal to Canada’s. A New York state bill […]
By Ramzy Baroud Thanks to Palestinian memory, Palestinians are once more united around their understanding of the past, the steadfastness of the present and the hope for a just future. Inadvertently, Israel has pressed […]
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The heroic, noble, democratic faux Israel story has been methodically insinuated into the American psyche by the Israeli state hasbara (explaining and propaganda) machine. Israel has, for decades, created many […]
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 Parth Sharma “The power to narrate, or to block other narratives from forming and emerging, is very important to culture and imperialism, and constitutes one of the main connections between them.” ― Edward Said, […]
By Issam Khalidi The problem is not mixing sports with politics, but rather abandoning humanitarian principles to preserve personal interests. Earlier this month, the Palestinian Football Association submitted a draft to the May 17 FIFA […]
By David Miller Calling for the dismantling of Zionism is not calling for the extermination of the Jews. Nor is it even calling for the extermination of Zionists. The pearl clutching and Zionist propaganda lines […]
By Yves Engler Is it surprising that kids who have endured this indoctrination feel threatened by criticism of Israel? For many, university may be their first sustained interaction with anti-Zionism. According to a Parliamentary Commission […]
By Ramzy Baroud The success, and the sacrifices of Gaza journalists should serve as a model for journalists and journalism around the world. By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists […]
By Jeremy Salt Zionism did not ‘succeed’ because of Jewish support but because of ‘western’ imperial backing. Almost 2000 years ago a Hebrew assault force overthrew the Roman garrison established on the tabletop heights known […]
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, […]
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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