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– Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of the South Africa-based Media Review Network. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle. Visit: www.mediareviewnet.com
By Iqbal Jassat As global solidarity movements in support of Palestine’s freedom struggle begin preparations for the annual Quds Day commemoration, America’s new administration, under president Joe Biden, remains stuck in the mud. Each year […]
By Iqbal Jassat 2021 kicked off astoundingly well for South Africa’s broad-based Palestinian solidarity movements. If what they notched up in a series of groundbreaking results in defense of Palestine’s freedom struggle during the first […]
By Iqbal Jassat Douglas Gibson’s call on Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to defy the ruling by the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) against him is an arrogant display of utter disrespect and may be construed to […]
By Iqbal Jassat South African expats residing in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), be warned: overzealous securocrats in the Gulf oligarchies are watching you and all foreign migrants, ready to pounce if you dare to […]
By Iqbal Jassat The campaign to petition South Africa’s ANC-led government to lift punitive Visa restrictions applicable to Palestinians desirous of traveling here is a necessary yet embarrassing exercise. Many people including veterans of the […]
By Iqbal Jassat (Rise And Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. Ronen Bergman. John Murray, London, 2018) Newsweek proclaimed it “A must-read…” while The New Yorker described it as a remarkable account […]
By Iqbal Jassat Following my Facebook posting earlier this month in which I applauded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for his firm stance against “normalization” with Israel, a friend posed an interesting query. He asked […]
By Iqbal Jassat Misreading and deliberately so, the causes for the fury across the Muslim world and remaining defiant in challenging Islam, French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to “fight to the death”. In a […]
By Iqbal Jassat The haste to silence critiques of the apartheid regime of Israel and resort to scurrilous allegations of “antisemitism” comes ironically during the week when South Africa remembers the 43rd anniversary of Black […]
By Iqbal Jassat Islamophobia as a world-wide phenomenon has become increasingly menacing in many parts of Europe and in the United States. As it grows it’s tentacles with direct, bold and active participation of white […]
By Iqbal Jassat As Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up to the podium flanked by the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the UAE to sign what has been hailed as a “historic peace agreement” […]
By Iqbal Jassat Is it a case of much ado about nothing or does it pose a significant challenge to undermine key components of Israel’s multi-layered myths? From the heated backlash unleashed following an essay […]
By Iqbal Jassat South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogeong Mogeong has come under intense fire for publically expressing his love for Israel. His pro-Israeli comments on an online platform hosted by the Jerusalem Post have come […]
By Iqbal Jassat Does the current wave of protests across America sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd, present an existential threat to Israel? Astounding as it sounds, Israel’s propagandists and defenders have been […]
By Iqbal Jassat An extraordinary life of resistance against colonizers of his homeland Palestine will be celebrated, though Shalah is no more. Al Manar TV reported on Saturday that the former leader of Palestine’s Islamic […]
By Iqbal Jassat As the corona pandemic overwhelms the globe bringing to a halt all social, cultural and economic activities across the world, Turkey is in the firing line. Bizarrely it is earning the wrath […]
By Iqbal Jassat While the world is on tenterhooks as it confronts the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Iran is among the countries hardest hit. Although the epicenter seems to have shifted to Western Europe, […]
By Iqbal Jassat Has India under the leadership of Narendra Modi adopted a disastrous route in sharp contrast from a proud tradition of anti-colonialism to neo-nazism? Historians familiar with the era of British colonialism in […]
By Iqbal Jassat Shortly following her visit to South Africa, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government made a shocking announcement in defense of Israel’s horrendous record of serious human rights violations. Germany took the shameful form […]
By Iqbal Jassat Undoubtedly masses of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and millions of their compatriots living in squalor as refugees across the Arab world, would be appalled if not livid that the Trump administration […]
By Iqbal Jassat Despite conflicting official statements by the Trump administration about the reason behind its decision to target Iran’s most celebrated military official, the U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qasem Soleimani and refusal […]
By Iqbal Jassat Whoever has any suspicion that the ICC’s reluctance to prosecute Israel for war crimes is due to pro-Israel bias by its prosecutor, have been spot on. In a timely intervention, South Africa’s […]
By Iqbal Jassat The entirely predictable expectation from US President Donald Trump to cuddle up to Israel’s rightwing lobby at a time he is faced with one of the severest challenges to his presidency: impeachment. […]
By Iqbal Jassat Has Netanyahu’s criminal conduct grown in leaps and bounds? It certainly has even though his coterie of fellow thugs and band of die-hard white supremacists deny it. The folly and contempt whereby […]
By Iqbal Jassat Much to the disappointment of South Africa’s trade unions and human rights organizations, the Competition Tribunal (CT) has ignored their objections by handing over a dairy company to an entity from apartheid […]
By Iqbal Jassat The annual gathering of global leaders at the United Nations has yet again lit up New York’s elite hotels and busy thoroughfares. Though the 74th session of the UN General Assembly is […]
By Iqbal Jassat Why is it that war criminals in their capacity as heads of states who despite being consistently in breach of global conventions governing human rights, are treated like royalty? What sets them […]
By Iqbal Jassat All it took was a blink of an eye to realize that India’s rightwing government outmaneuvered old-style colonialism by repackaging it as “democracy in action”. Whether described as a double takeover or […]
By Iqbal Jassat Is South Africa among the countries standing aside as the world is confronted with illegal moves by the Trump Administration to facilitate the complete annihilation of Palestine by Israel? Notwithstanding the fact […]
By Iqbal Jassat Isn’t it bizarre if not downright scandalous for the African continent which since the defeat of apartheid and its replacement with a democratic order in South Africa, had disavowed military coups, yet […]
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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