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Restoring Psychological Deterrence – Torture of Palestinians as a ‘Systematic Strategy’
By Ramzy Baroud By trying to break the will of the Palestinians through torture, humiliation and rape, Israel wants to restore a different kind of deterrence, which it lost on October 7. On October […]

Al-Tabaeen School Massacre is Part of Zionist Script to Annihilate Palestinians – With US Support
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 […]

Born and Dwells in Violence – Israel’s Mission in the Middle East
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel’s Zionist founders did not come in peace. They fashioned a country based on force and intimidation. With each decade, their progeny have intensified the violence. The future is uncertain […]

Zionism on the Brink: The Gaza War Beyond Netanyahu
By Ramzy Baroud Even if the Israeli right has lost all faith in Netanyahu, without him as a unifying figure, all is lost, not only the chances of the far-right camp to redeem itself, […]

X Marks the Spot: Digital/Settler-Colonialism and Musk’s Meeting with Netanyahu
By Omar Zahzah Through X and SpaceX (particularly Starlink,) Elon Musk is an important figure in understanding digital/settler-colonialism. On Wednesday, July 24, amidst considerable protest and a boycott by nearly half of the Democrats in […]

Signs are Unmistakable: Israel Flames Out
By Jeremy Salt The Middle East has been brought to the very edge of a final existential confrontation with Israel that will determine the shape of the region for the next century. The signs are […]

Polio in Gaza – Necropolitics of Genocide and Impending Public Health Crisis
By Parth Sharma No area is safe in the Gaza Strip and no one is safe in the Gaza Strip; this is the necropolitics of Genocide. Since October 7, 2023, most of Gaza’s thirty-six hospitals […]

Gaza Genocide – Palestine as a Multi-faceted Issue and Election ‘24
By Benay Blend History repeats itself today on college campuses where support for Palestinian liberation has resulted in charges of antisemitism and ties to terrorism. “Values voter;” “Single-issue voter;” “So you want Trump to win?”—these […]

‘Structural Injustice’ – Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh an Act of Zionist Terrorism
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 […]

The Failed Palestine Reset: How Netanyahu Engineered His Own Irrelevance
By Ramzy Baroud When Netanyahu mattered, his speeches often led to wars, or major regional instability. But Netanyahu no longer matters, except for a few US politicians vying for re-election. Great orators in history […]

For These Reasons Israel Assassinated Hamas’ Political Leader, Ismail Haniyeh – Analysis
By Ramzy Baroud Considering the criminal extent to which Israel is willing to go, such desperation could eventually lead to the regional war that Israel has been trying to instigate, even before the Gaza […]

From Gaza to the Favelas: Why Brazilians Support the Palestinian Struggle
By Ana Nascimento Palestine and Brazil are more similar than we think. True, each struggle has its own particularities, but the similarities are many. An old Chinese proverb says that he who does not fear […]

‘Watering down’ Genocide: No More Moral Compromises on Palestine, Please
By Ramzy Baroud To further expose western duplicity in Gaza, we must learn to speak with no reservations, no matter the restrictions on the pro-Palestine voice or the censorship on social media. Why are […]

Genocide and Gruesome Violence – Call to ‘Recalibrate SA Foreign Policy on Apartheid Israel Smacks of Opportunism
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 […]

‘Victory against Genocide’ – Jewish National Fund of Canada to Lose Charitable Status
By Yves Engler The Canada Revenue Agency revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund of Canada is an important victory against apartheid and Canada’s contribution to Palestinian dispossession. Score a significant victory against […]

Dear West: Your ‘Age of Monsters’ Has Begun
By Ramzy Baroud I find it important to reflect on Gramsci’s understanding of the process of change in society due to the ongoing chaos underway in various western countries. Antonio Gramsci was not a […]

‘Terrorist Organization’? What’s Behind the Israeli War on UNRWA
By Ramzy Baroud The Israeli attacks on the UN, all its institutions, but particularly the UN agency responsible for the welfare of Gaza’s refugees (UNRWA), serve a different purpose than that of mere ‘collective […]

‘Racial Discrimination’ – Australia’s Genocidal State Loyalists Wage War on Truth and Justice
By Jeremy Salt Mary Kostakidis is respected for her commitment to truth and justice. She defends the Palestinians because that’s where truth and justice lie. In a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission, the […]

The Politics of Water under Occupation: Israel in Palestine
By Dr. M. Reza Behnam Israel’s objective has always been to decrease the supply of water to Palestinians so that they will inevitably have to leave. The International Court of Justice released its historic advisory […]

Gaza Genocide – Human Rights Watch and the Limits of a Rights-Based Approach
By Benay Blend None of these issues could be resolved through using only a rights approach, as there are very few human rights guaranteed to a population under occupation. On July 17, 2024, Human Rights […]

ICJ Judgement Is Clear: Aiding and Abetting Israel’s Illegal Occupation is a Crime
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 […]

Israeli Apartheid and Genocide – One Step Forward, One Back, for Ontario NDP on Palestine
By Yves Engler The NDP has been even more resistant to challenging Canada’s role in supporting apartheid and genocide. The leader of the Ontario NDP caved to a genocidal Jewish supremacist organization amidst Israel’s horrors […]

When Supporting Israel is a Liability: Is Gaza Changing the West?
By Ramzy Baroud The Israeli war of ‘extermination’ in Gaza, per the words of International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan, has made the cause of Palestinian freedom a global one. Much has been written […]

‘It’s Never Been about Community Standards’: Samidoun Faces Repression on Social Media
By Omar Zahzah In addition to YouTube, Kates describes the severe repression Samidoun faces on the Meta platform Instagram, including the arbitrary nature of “community standards violations.” The explosion of tech suppression of support for […]

A Moral Outrage – Assaulted for Questioning ‘Charitable’ Donations by Billionaire
By Yves Engler Over the past two decades Reisman and Schwartz have put at least $185 million into HESEG. They’ve likely recouped nearly half of that sum through tax credits for “charitable” donations. On Friday I asked Heather […]

Gaza Genocide – Storytelling as an Act of Resistance to Oppression, Ethnic Cleansing
By Benay Blend Storytelling has long been a tactic in the toolbox of colonized people. For survivors of genocide, it validates their experience against those who deny that the horror ever happened. When I taught […]

Abomination of Gaza: The Barbarians Who Built the Gates
By Jeremy Salt It took the abomination of Gaza for many and perhaps most people around the world to conclude that there is no peace to be had with Israel. No one-state solution, no two-state […]

Rekindling the Old Love Affair: Can Trump Save Netanyahu?
By Ramzy Baroud Trump’s politics is abashedly Machiavellian. During his only term in office between 2017 and 2021, he served the role of the American genie, granting Israel’s every wish. Many political analysts believe […]

Removing Shackles from Palestinian Hostages at Israel’s Sde Teiman Black Hole Not Enough – It Must Be Shut Down
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 […]

We Can Defeat the Lobby – ILAN PAPPE
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle The sight of the children buried under the rubble, salvaged by older children, is enough for me and, I am sure, for anyone who was ever silenced […]