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Israel Rejects ICC Investigation: What Are the Possible Future Scenarios?

The Israeli government’s position regarding an impending investigation by the International Criminal Court of alleged war crimes committed in occupied Palestine has been finally...

The Clandestine War on Africa: France’s Endgame in Mali

In a recent report, the United Nations Mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, concluded that, on January 3, French warplanes had struck a crowd...

From his solitary confinement, Marwan Barghouti holds the key to Fatah’s future

If imprisoned Palestinian leader, Marwan Barghouti, becomes the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status quo will change substantially. For Israel, as well...

Kafkaesque Politics: The Missing Lessons from Israel’s Latest Elections

A ‘major setback’ was the recurring term in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel’s general elections of March 23. While this...

Nuclear Weapons Blazing: Britain enters the US-China fray

Boris Johnson’s March 16 speech before the British Parliament was reminiscent, at least in tone, to that of Chinese President Xi Jinping in October...

The Nakba of Sheikh Jarrah: How Israel uses ‘the Law’ to ethnically cleanse East Jerusalem

A Palestinian man, Atef Yousef Hanaysha, was killed by Israeli occupation forces on March 19 during a weekly protest against illegal Israeli settlement expansion...

Biden’s China Policy Doomed from the Start

A much anticipated American foreign policy move under the Biden Administration on how to counter China’s unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in...

Elections under Fire: Palestine’s Impossible Democracy Dilemma

Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare a stance on whether they support or reject...

Ready to work with Netanyahu: Mansour Abbas splinters Arab vote in Israel

At a glance, it may appear that the split of Arab political parties in Israel is consistent with a typical pattern of political and...

The ‘Fascinating’ Political Evolution of Hamas

On February 4, representatives from the Palestinian Movement, Hamas, visited Moscow to inform the Russian government of the latest development on the unity talks...

Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma

What is taking place in Burma right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as...

Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the Language of Exile

For Palestinians, exile is not simply the physical act of being removed from their homes and their inability to return. It is not a...

Democrats are as Dangerous as Republicans to a Just Peace in Palestine

Motivated by their justifiable aversion to former US President Donald Trump, many analysts have rashly painted a rosy picture of how Democrats could quickly...

Europe will redefine itself despite political shift in the US

Despite the long-awaited political change in Washington as Democratic President, Joe Biden, has officially become the 46th President of the United States, Europe is...

Palestinian Boycott of Israel is Not Racist, It is Anti-Racist

Claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly, ‘The Forward’, point to the...

How Moscow is capitalising on US retreat in Palestine, Israel

Israeli anxiety was palpable when it was reported that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not contacted by the new American President, Joe Biden,...

The Case against Pakistani Normalisation with Israel

Pakistan, please do not validate apartheid; do not make military occupation normal The Pakistani government should never, under any circumstances and no matter the pressure,...

Israel’s Open War on Its Own Civil Society

A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid,” was the title of a January 12 report...

Beyond slogans: Palestinians need a strategy to counter Israel in Africa

Realpolitik is rarely shaped by moral visions. This is the truth that Palestinians now have to contend with, as they watch their own Arab...

America’s self-serving hegemonic discourse in crisis

‘American exceptionalism’, a rare meeting point between Democrats and Republicans, is facing its greatest challenge since its coinage sometime in the mid-17th century History is...

Fearing the Palestinian Narrative: Why Israel Banned ‘Jenin Jenin’

Israel’s true power - but also Achilles heel - is its ability to design, construct and shield its own version of history. Even meager...

‘Force and Fraud’: Is this the end of the US Democracy Doctrine?

In an interview with the British newspaper, The Times, in 2015, former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vehemently denied that exporting democracy to Iraq...

Covid-19 under Apartheid: How Israel Manipulates Suffering of Palestinians

Israel’s decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel’s poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to...

‘One State is a Game Changer’

A Conversation with Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on the One Democratic State Campaign As the US ruling elites have fully succumbed to Israel’s political...

2021: Palestine’s Chance of Fighting Back

2020 will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored ‘peace process’. While 2021 will not reverse the monumental change in...

The US Money Tree: The Untold Story of American Aid to Israel

On December 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spending...

The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality

The disease is another terrible reminder of the deep divisions and inequalities in our societies The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’...

How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine

To understand the meaning and relevance of the Intifada, it has to be viewed as an active political event, constantly generating new meanings, as...

Abbas Prioritises US Ties over Palestinian National Unity

No one seemed as excited about the election of Joe Biden being the next President of the United States as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud...

Football is about Politics

Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary “fantasy world” required to shield people from understanding, organizing,...

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