Such terminology was not a mere scare tactic aimed at breaking the spirit of Palestinians and Arabs alike. Israel believed this
Though the United States remains a strong supporter of Israel, there are some indications that the supposed ‘unbreakable bond’ with Tel Aviv is...
The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest...
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments...
The European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell is not particularly perceived by the EU’s political elite or mainstream media as a...
As horrific as Trump’s years were in terms of undermining a just resolution to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Biden’s policies are but a...
The G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26-28, and the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, two days later, were practically useless in terms of providing...
Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, US media introduced many new characters, promoting them as ‘experts’ who helped ratchet up...
In November 2006, the Israeli military prevented all Palestine-based footballers from participating in the final match of the Asian Football...
The geopolitical reordering of the world cannot simply be achieved through war or challenging the West’s political influence in its various global...
What took place between May 2021 and May 2022 is nothing less than a paradigm shift in Palestinian resistance. Thanks to the popular and inclusive...
The Israeli Court’s decision regarding Masafer Yatta, which is already being carried out with the expulsion of the Najjar family on May 11, is an...
Israel’s coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics,...
The Russia-Ukraine war has quickly turned into a global conflict. One of the likely outcomes of this war is the very redefinition of the current...
While international news headlines remain largely focused on the war in Ukraine, little attention is given to the horrific consequences of the war...
A friend, a young journalist in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged Strip have skyrocketed in recent weeks and...
When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged...
“The water is back,” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an...
Israel’s balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting Nato-Russia conflict is expected to last...
How the tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on March 5, hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. Venezuela, one of...
A new global geopolitical game is in formation, and the Middle East, as is often the case, will be directly impacted by it in terms of possible new...
Israel’s war on Palestinian sports is as old as the Israeli state itself. For Palestinians, sport is a critical aspect of their popular culture,...
Can Israel be pressured? Or is Tel Aviv the only exception to the global political order in which every country, big or small, is subjected to...
When Nelson Mandela was freed from his Robben Island prison on February 11, 1991, my family, friends and neighbors followed the event with keen...
The current split in the African Union over Israel’s Observer membership status is emblematic of a larger conflict that could potentially split...
A succession of events in recent weeks all point to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel’s painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the...
It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset bill which proposed to give the...
Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept which helped delineate the relationship between various marginalized and oppressed groups,...
Although 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in...
At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of...
The result of a vote, on December 14, in the US House of Representatives regarding the combating of Islamophobia, may, possibly, appear to be a...
Haaretz’s investigative report – ‘Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew’ – is a...
Helping Africa in its critical fight against the pandemic should have been done in a more systematic fashion as part of an inclusive global...
The Belgian government’s decision on November 25 to label products made in illegal Israeli Jewish settlements is welcome, although it will...
When Palestinians began registering in world consciousness as a people with a legitimate claim to freedom, they were not immediately endowed with...
On November 8, The Washington Post revealed an Israeli mass surveillance operation, which uses ‘Blue Wolf’ technology to create a massive...
In his speech at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Israel’s rightwing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett pushed the Israeli brand of...
What truly matters is not that an author of African origin has finally won the award after the Academy’s neglect of Africa for nearly fifteen...
Speaking out against the Israeli occupation of Palestine is no longer taboo among elected US politicians.Once upon a time, speaking out against...
Time after time, resisting Palestinians have made a mockery of Israel’s security myths. The resistance in Gaza has exponentially grown in its...
Rome is scorching hot. This beautiful city is becoming unbearable for other reasons, too. Though every corner of the beaming metropolis is a...
Before Palestine’s first Olympic participation in 1996, with only one athlete, Majed Abu Marahi, we cheered – we still do – for all the...
According to a July 15 World Health Organization report, an estimated “23 million children missed out on basic vaccines through routine...
A report submitted by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief in November last year showed that a majority of...
The ceasefire on May 21 has, for now, brought the Israeli war on Gaza to an end. However, this ceasefire is not permanent and constant Israeli...
Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could never have anticipated that a routine act of ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem’s...
“That’s certainly our goal and our intention.” This was the non-committal answer given by White House Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, when, on...
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...
2020 will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored ‘peace process’. While 2021 will not reverse the monumental...
The notion that the Covid-19 pandemic was ‘the great equalizer’ should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is another...
