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In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically...
This week, Libya witnessed two events that were celebrated as signs of progress, even though they express nothing more than the normalisation of...
The language of hegemonic media does not merely describe the world. It organizes it, hierarchises it and, above all, disciplines it. Within the...
Spain was recently targeted by Israel’s antisemitism narrative after an effigy of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was blown up in El Burgo, during...
On 2nd March, when the Lebanese government declared a total ban on Hezbollah’s military and security activities, most of the commentary focused on...
There are few habits in client-state politics more revealing than the urge to decorate empire’s latest strongman with the language of peace. Some...
“It is disappointing that they do not reflect on the criticisms of people around the world who are suffering and struggling due to ceaseless actions...
Old-school fascism controlled the press with a fist; the new version controls the data with a contract. When the state and the corporation agree on...
As a Political Science student who studies peace-building in the Middle East, I want to start with something a scholar named Edward Said taught us:...
In Washington, the phrase “restoring deterrence” functions as a foreign policy reflex. The logic appears straightforward: strike Iran’s assets,...
The most revealing thing about the 8 April ceasefire was not that it paused, for the moment, threatened attacks on Iran’s bridges, power stations...
In a surprising development, US President Donald Trump announced in the early hours of Wednesday morning a two-week ceasefire with Iran, contingent...
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of a settlement in Benjamin, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Israel will expand in Gaza, the...
Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages affirms that the on-the-ground realities in the area extending between...
There is a peculiar moral inversion unfolding in the waters of the Persian Gulf. As oil tankers idle and insurance markets shudder, more than forty...
The contemporary transformation of the Gaza Strip—from a vibrant Mediterranean economic hub to a landscape of systemic structural...
There is a moment in the moral life of nations when the lies that sustained them can no longer hold. Israel is living through that moment. The images...
The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the opening phase of the US-Israeli war against Iran has generated a striking argument in strategic and...
There is increasing talk of Gulf monarchies entering a war with Iran. This prospect invites not admiration but scrutiny. It would expose, in stark and...
It was celebrated with ghoulish delight. On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed the Penal Bill (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists), an...
“A people that oppresses another cannot itself be free” -Friedrich Engels – Zionism is racism. I state this plainly, not as a slogan designed...
What we are witnessing today across occupied Palestine is not a glitch in the system of international order, nor is it a sudden detour from the...
A law can sometimes reveal more than a thousand speeches ever could. Israel’s newly passed ‘Death Penalty for Terrorists’ statute does precisely...