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One Year Since the Genocide – Palestinian Sumud vs the Israeli War Machine
By Ramzy Baroud The sumud of the Palestinians in Gaza, who have endured a year of mass killing, deliberate starvation and total destruction of all aspects of life, is helping reassert the political significance […]

From Turtle Island to Palestine: Indigenous People’s Day and Palestine Solidarity
By Benay Blend Both Israel and North America share similar rhetoric that justifies their origins. Infused with biblical references to “salvation, redemption, and destiny,” settlers in both countries believed that they had reached the Promised […]

Criminalizing Opposition – Biggest Terrorists Seek to Put Anti-Terrorists on Terror List
By Yves Engler Canada’s terrorist list targets those opposing Israeli terror. In a stark example of our upside-down world those promoting Israel’s endless crimes are on the offensive seeking to criminalize opposition to Israel’s holocaust. […]

Palestinian ‘Mandelas’ are either Detained without Trial or Savagely Massacred by Israel
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 […]

One Year On – Five Things the War on Gaza Taught Us about the Palestinian Struggle
By Ramzy Baroud The last year of a relentless Israeli war on Gaza, and bloody raids and violence in the West Bank have been largely viewed in terms of their horrific humanitarian outcomes: the […]

Netanyahu’s Intoxicated Euphoria will Turn into a Prolonged Hangover
By Jamal Kanj This has always been, and remains, Netanyahu’s goal: to manipulate and coerce the US into another made-for-Israel Middle East war. The Iranian retaliation against Israel followed a week of political ploys and […]

The Agony and Ecstasy of an Empire – The United States in the Middle East
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The war on Palestinians in Gaza is remaking the Middle East, but not in the way the United States and Israel had hoped. Over the past year, mindful that I […]

A Very Democratic Genocide – Terror Intrinsic to Israel’s Survival
By Jeremy Salt “Israel is a democracy and not run by a terrorist organization.” Thus spoke Peter Dutton, the leader of the Australian opposition Liberal Party. In denying any equivalence between Hezbollah and the state […]

On ‘Closures and Continuities’ – Reflections on October 7
By Benay Blend On October 25, 2013, Angela Davis delivered a speech at Birbeck University in London. Entitled “Closures and Continuities,” her talk drew from a freedom song that was popular in the American South […]

US Support of Israel – ‘Fully, Fully, Fully’ or Folly, Folly, Folly?
By Jeremy Salt Netanyahu brought Gaza to Beirut but through mass murder and destruction in Gaza and Lebanon, he might be bringing it to Israel as well. The ‘fully’ repeated three times by Joe Biden […]

It is Quiet – Who Pays for Israeli Apartheid in Palestine?
By Mats Svensson 41,000 murdered. We are still counting the days. Here, in the center, it is quiet. In the eye of the storm, I see nothing, hear nothing. Everything happens somewhere else—over there. Not […]

No Diplomatic Leadership – Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies The US response to Iran’s restraint throughout this crisis has been to keep sending destructive weapons to Israel, with which it has devastated Gaza, killed tens of thousands […]

Using the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon – How Words Can Justify a Genocide
By Ramzy Baroud Perpetuating Israeli lies is dangerous, not only because truth-telling is a virtue but also because words kill, and dishonest reporting can, in fact, succeed in justifying genocide. The official Israeli army […]

Billions of Dollars in Public Subsidy – Pro-Israel ‘Charities’ Flout Tax Laws with Seeming Impunity
By Yves Engler United Israel Appeal is the most important Israel-focused charity in Canada. Its violation of tax law highlights the hubris of Zionist charities, which have received billions of dollars in public subsidy over […]

‘Myth of Invincibility’ – Israel’s War without Red Lines
By Jeremy Salt Public reaction to the death of Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah, has been compared to the overwhelming grief after the death of Egypt’s president, Gamal Abd al Nasser, in 1970. There is one […]

Resistance Will Stand, Lebanon Will Persist – In Memory of Hassan Nasrallah
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 […]

Not October 7 or Any Other Date – This is all about 1948 Now
By Jeremy Salt Israel is out of control but it has never been in control. The west has allowed that too, and will have to pay the consequences. This is all about 1948. Not October […]

Israel’s War on Lebanon and Netanyahu’s ‘October Surprise’ to Pick the Next US President
By Jamal Kanj As long as the meek Democratic establishment continues to ignore Israeli interference in American elections, Netanyahu will validate, once more, his flaunted notion that “America is a thing you can move very […]

Refugees Killing Refugees – Israel’s Recruiting of Africans in Gaza is a New Low
By Ramzy Baroud It is incumbent on African governments to take a strong stance so that Israel ceases its practice of using Africans to kill and die in Gaza. If one is to visit […]

‘International Community’ – Why is the Term Abused by Zionist ‘Hasbara’
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 […]

The Future of the Middle East – The Next War Has already Started
By Jeremy Salt If the West/Israel cannot win the war, if they are unable to finish what they have started, their hegemonic hold will be broken. The war likely to decide the future of the […]

Israel’s True Objectives in Gaza, and Why It Will Fail
By Ramzy Baroud Israel’s new plans will not succeed simply because Israel continues to face the same obstacle: the steadfastness of the Palestinian people. Never in its history of war, and military occupation has […]

Palestinians in Occupied Palestine: Defying Zionism and Imperialism
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam The United States has had no qualms about casting its lot with the most openly and thoroughly racist regime Israel has ever produced. That fact has been obscured, or intentionally […]

UNGA Resolution – Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?
By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies While Israel is blowing up electronic devices that have killed or maimed thousands throughout Lebanon and continues its rampage in Gaza and the West Bank, the international community […]

Creating Confusion – Were the Exploding Pagers in Lebanon Part of a Larger Israeli Blunder?
By Jamal Kanj Is there a connection between the original timing of the leaflets and the detonation of the pagers? Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet has approved a plan to wage a war on Lebanon under […]

One Of Lebanon’s Top Novelists Passes Away – Who Was Elias Khoury?
By Robert Inlakesh In the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas-led operation al-Aqsa Flood, Elias Khoury wrote an article that attracted massive criticism in the Western and Israeli media. Award-winning novelist Elias Khoury passed away […]

‘Programmed and Directed’ – Gaza Genocide has Sealed Israel’s Fate as ‘a Country of Blood’
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 […]

Arms Exhibition and Gaza Genocide – Protecting the ‘Merchants of Death’
By Jeremy Salt Although primarily anti-war, the Gaza genocide and the presence of Israeli arms merchants in Melbourne were the sharp edges of demonstrations against this marketing of the weapons of war. Of the 900+ […]

Strikes on ‘Safe Areas’ – Israel’s Bloody Negotiations Strategy in Gaza
By Jamal Kanj Meanwhile, the Biden administration continues to supply Israel with the means to commit these war crimes, while using the White House platform to spread disinformation, making Israel’s “lies sound truthful and murder […]

Cartography of Genocide: Why Netanyahu Erased Palestine from the Map
By Ramzy Baroud For him, Palestinians are nomadic beings who, by mere historical incident, ventured into his biblical land, in which they have no claim or right. When asked why his latest map has […]