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The UN never gets to the root of the problem

The UN General Assembly has passed another non-binding resolution which is unlikely to dent Israel’s colonial expansion in colonised Palestine. Any...

yesterday 20

Ramona Wadi

Yasmine Belkaid’s ever-growing capital

My personal physician — one of Britain’s most renowned doctors and recipient of one of the highest honours from the late Queen Elizabeth II —...

yesterday 20

Karam Nama

Deliberate contradiction: How the West plays dumb and kills people in Gaza

First, let’s dissect this puzzle. On 29 February 2024, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sent shockwaves when he informed lawmakers in the House...

yesterday 40

Dr Ramzy Baroud

How Israel poisoned Gaza’s agricultural land for years to come

Israel’s campaign in Gaza has not only levelled most of the built environment — satellite analyses in 2025 show damage to the vast majority of...

yesterday 40

Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Beware: Blood diamonds are funding Israel’s war crimes

Last week the 2025 chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Ahmed Bin Sulayem, had an article published extolling the benefits of the...

yesterday 7

Sean Clinton

The war no one declares: Inside the Mossad–Iran shadow conflict

In espionage, truth arrives escorted by doubt. Nothing is announced cleanly; nothing ends conclusively. Stories surface halfway formed, decorated...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

When the Palestinian flag soars in London but fades across Arab horizons

The sight of the Palestinian flag sweeping through London’s streets is no longer a sporadic gesture enabled merely by freedom of expression. It has...

previous day 50

Adnan Hmidan

Protecting Israeli colonialism also protects Israel’s torture practices

Asking Israel to investigate its torture practices, while knowing that torture is an integral part of Israel’s political violence, is one of the...

tuesday 10

Ramona Wadi

Trump tried to corner MBS. He blinked first

Washington’s diplomatic theatre has always relied less on persuasion than performance: coaxing allies into submission behind closed doors, then...

tuesday 20

Jasim Al-Azzawi

A ceasefire in name only: Gaza’s prolonged purgatory

A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time,...

tuesday 10

Dr Binoy Kampmark

Ceasefire is “holding”: So long as only non-Israeli-Jews are murdered

Amnesty International warned on 27 November, that “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal…. the...

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