‘My Family, My People’: How Khader Adnan Unified Palestinians from His Prison Cell

‘My Family, My People’: How Khader Adnan Unified Palestinians from His Prison Cell

Khader Adnan was not a ‘terrorist’ with ‘Israeli blood on his hands,’ as pro-Israeli propagandists have been repeating in the news and on social media. If the former Palestinian prisoner, who died in his Israeli prison cell following 87 days of an uninterrupted hunger strike was, indeed, directly involved in armed resistance, the story would […]

Erasure vs. Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity

Erasure vs. Sumud: How the Nakba Came to Define the Collective Palestinian Identity

On May 15, 2023, the Palestinian Nakba will be 75 years old. Palestinians all over the world will commemorate the tragic occasion, known as the ‘Catastrophe’, when nearly 800,000 Palestinians were made refugees and nearly 500 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed of their inhabitants in historic Palestine between late 1947 and mid-1948. The depopulation […]

Quest for religious war: How Israel is unifying Arabs and Muslims around Palestine

Quest for religious war: How Israel is unifying Arabs and Muslims around Palestine

By ordering a brutal attack against Palestinian worshipers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque on the 14th day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew very well that the Palestinians would retaliate. Netanyahu’s motive should be clear. He wanted to generate a distraction from the mass protests that have rocked Israel, starting […]

Lying about lying: Why we must revisit the definition of ‘Fake News’

Lying about lying: Why we must revisit the definition of ‘Fake News’

The phrase ‘fake news’ continues to be deployed routinely in US politics. In a polarized political atmosphere, both Republicans and Democrats distrust media organizations affiliated with opposing parties. This means that most of what is uttered or written by CNN is ‘fake news’ for Republicans, and much of what appears in Republicans-affiliated media is ‘fake […]

Xi’s ‘Chilling’ remarks: A multipolar world offers challenges and opportunities to the Middle East and Africa

Xi’s ‘Chilling’ remarks: A multipolar world offers challenges and opportunities to the Middle East and Africa

The final exchange, caught on camera between visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian host and counterpart, Vladimir Putin, sums up the current geopolitical conflict, still in its nascent stages, between the United States and its Western allies on the one hand, and Russia, China and their allies, on the other. Xi was leaving […]

Algeria’s Gas vs. Rightwing Ideology: Will Italy Change Its Position on Jerusalem?

Algeria’s Gas vs. Rightwing Ideology: Will Italy Change Its Position on Jerusalem?

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Tel Aviv for Rome on March 9, he was flown to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv by a helicopter because anti-government protesters blocked all the roads around it. Netanyahu’s visit was not met with much enthusiasm in Italy, either. A sit-in was organized by pro-Palestine activists in […]

Silent In Ukraine: Weapons Perpetuate, Do Not End Wars

Silent In Ukraine: Weapons Perpetuate, Do Not End Wars

As is the case of long wars, the warring parties and their affiliated media in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have painted each other using uncompromising language, making it nearly impossible to offer an unbiased view of the ongoing tragedy that has killed, wounded and expelled millions. While it is understandable that wars of such horror and […]