– Jeremy Salt taught at the University of Melbourne, at Bosporus University in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara for many years, specializing in the modern history of the Middle East. Among his recent publications is his 2008 book, The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press) and The Last Ottoman Wars. The Human Cost 1877-1923 (University of Utah Press, 2019). He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
By Jeremy Salt Israel’s latest actions in Gaza, from setting up a holiday village for soldiers to the destruction of hospitals, highlight a grotesque disconnection from human suffering. The real news of the day is […]
By Jeremy Salt The overthrow of the Syrian government is a triumph for Turkiye’s Tayyip Erdogan and for Syria’s western enemies led by the US. Israel’s ‘successes’ continue to mount. The latest is the decision […]
By Jeremy Salt Murdoch’s television arm, Sky News Australia, is covering the issue of anti-semitism the same way, making no attempt to distinguish between real anti-semitism and hostility to Israel over the genocide. Benjamin Netanyahu […]
By Jeremy Salt A stubborn obstacle in the way of western governments and their Arab world ‘allies’, Syria has been targeted ever since 1918. Syria has fallen. It is not just Bashar al-Assad or ‘the […]
By Jeremy Salt The Lebanon ceasefire gives Israel temporary relief but Netanyahu never really wanted it, key members of the government are against it and a significant slice of public opinion is actively hostile or […]
By Jeremy Salt There is virtually no rule of law relating to warfare that Israel is not violating, flagrantly, blatantly and without any regard for what the rest of the world thinks. ‘Delenda est Carthago’ […]
By Jeremy Salt This is the dark side of what is called ‘human nature,’ the fate of millions of people, enslaved, invaded, occupied, terrorized and massacred through the millennia. In the 16th century, the Flemish […]
By Jeremy Salt “It is their job to bring us what Israel does not want us to see.” Imagine, or try to imagine, going to work every day when your work is witnessing death close […]
By Jeremy Salt Sinwar resisted to the end, fighting off the Israelis with grenades and even with his hand blown off by a tank shell. We don’t need future historians to tell us that Yahya […]
By Jeremy Salt Public support for Israel in this western hinterland was once high but against the backdrop of genocide, it is plummeting. Israel is plunging the Middle East into hell. The scenes from Gaza […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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+ […]
By Jeremy Salt Israel was created as a rampart of ‘western civilization’ in the barbarous east but now the rampart is at risk of being overwhelmed. A wave of censorship in the ‘western’ world might […]
By Jeremy Salt These governments are standing by Israel even as it strips them naked of their moral pretensions and destroys the laws they profess to live by. In the latest exercise of its power […]
By Jeremy Salt These massacres bring us closer to the central questions that the inquiring mind might ask about the Gaza genocide. Every genocide is different from the one before. Organized extermination is their similarity, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Jeremy Salt Its end as a Zionist state would be the start of a new beginning, undoing all the damage done since Balfour: the state can go but the people can survive alongside everyone […]
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 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 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 Jeremy Salt There is little that could be more uncivilized, cruel and barbarous than the crimes Israel is committing or more morally depraved than the complicity of the governments helping it along. Take 1: […]
By Jeremy Salt The condemnation by the ‘west’ of an Iranian attack that killed no one and its refusal to condemn an attack that has killed more than 30,000 people in Gaza is stand-alone testimony […]
By Jeremy Salt Living permanently outside the law, Israel has now gone so far that even its relationship with the US is fraying. No club in the world except the United Nations allows a member […]
By Jeremy Salt Centuries later, this battle order is being followed up in Gaza, where the death and destruction also include the deliberate killing of men and women, children and infants, through starvation and disease. […]
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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