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The American anti-Israel awakening

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

The vanishing future of the Arab world: climate, corruption, and the AI divide

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Beyond jargon: Tripoli’s ‘Supreme Authority’ is a self-preservation plot, not a co-ordinating framework

Beyond jargon: Tripoli’s ‘Supreme Authority’ is a self-preservation plot, not a co-ordinating framework

The Libyan political landscape, long defined by competing governments and institutional fragmentation, has recently delivered its most rent — and...

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

The ruptured mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli narrative

The ruptured mirror: How 7 October broke the Israeli narrative

The world beyond 7 October 2023 is not the same. It is a world that has finally seen beyond the decades-old narrative of a perpetually vulnerable...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Germany: Free speech wins in court, arms deliveries stay untouchable

Germany: Free speech wins in court, arms deliveries stay untouchable

It seems that barely a week goes by without Germany’s anti-Palestinian repression being condemned – whether by international institutions and...

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Leon Wystrychowski

The exodus of faith: Israel’s internal reckoning

The exodus of faith: Israel’s internal reckoning

Israel today is grappling not with the battlefield alone, but with a far subtler, far more consequential collapse: the evaporation of confidence...

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Ranjan Solomon

Who’s afraid of Dr Naledi Pandor? Zionism, Empire, and the visa revoked in panic

Who’s afraid of Dr Naledi Pandor? Zionism, Empire, and the visa revoked in panic

There are occasions when state power reveals its insecurities with embarrassing transparency. The United States’ revocation of Dr Naledi Pandor’s...

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Junaid S. Ahmad

On the anniversary of the UN 1947 Partition Plan, the PA asserts its allegiance with colonialism

On the anniversary of the UN 1947 Partition Plan, the PA asserts its allegiance with colonialism

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had the opportunity to denounce the UN for its hypocritical “International Day of Solidarity With the...

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Ramona Wadi

After 75 years: Could Israel actually lose its UN membership this time?

After 75 years: Could Israel actually lose its UN membership this time?

On 24 November 2025, civil-society actors in Chile launched a campaign calling for the expulsion of Israel from United Nations , invoking UN...

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Dr Mohammad Yousef

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: A humanitarian name for an inhumane mission

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: A humanitarian name for an inhumane mission

Nine months after its suspicious establishment, the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) announced on Monday the end of its...

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Ahmed Asmar

Thank you, Netanyahu, for stripping Zionism of its lies and revealing Israel’s odious nature

Thank you, Netanyahu, for stripping Zionism of its lies and revealing Israel’s odious nature

A historic reckoning is underway in the corridors of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The South African genocide case against...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a broken status quo

Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a broken status quo

Indonesia is preparing one of the largest peacekeeping deployments in its history — a 20,000-strong force of soldiers, engineers, medics and...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

UNSC 2803: The US-Israeli scheme to partition Gaza and break Palestinian will

UNSC 2803: The US-Israeli scheme to partition Gaza and break Palestinian will

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive...

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

The tyranny of geography: Ukraine’s fatal gamble

The tyranny of geography: Ukraine’s fatal gamble

Few conflicts in modern times better demonstrate the tyranny of geography than the war in Ukraine. At its center is Crimea, a peninsula whose...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Naledi Pandor’s US visa revocation is Zionist engineered

Naledi Pandor’s US visa revocation is Zionist engineered

A series of articles against former International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor by Lawrence Nowosenetz, formerly associated with the SA Jewish...

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Iqbal Jassat

There is no ceasefire, but there is an ongoing Nakba and an ongoing genocide

There is no ceasefire, but there is an ongoing Nakba and an ongoing genocide

A news report by AlJazeera this week stated that Israel violated the ceasefire 497 times in 44 days since 10 October. Lauded by the international...

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Ramona Wadi

How can Iraq reach the zero equation?

How can Iraq reach the zero equation?

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shiaa Al-Sudani, chose Newsweek magazine to present himself as a model for a ‘future Iraq’, appearing on the...

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Karam Nama

Dissecting the UN’s “Comprehensive Plan” for Gaza and the inevitable dead-end

Dissecting the UN’s “Comprehensive Plan” for Gaza and the inevitable dead-end

US policy documents on the Middle East do not reach the daylight before Israel is given the chance to filter them, and gut them. The latest UN...

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Jamal Kanj

Iraq’s tightrope walk sharpens between American security and Iranian influence

Iraq’s tightrope walk sharpens between American security and Iranian influence

Iraq enters 2025 facing the same unsparing question that has haunted it for two decades: can it remain a partner to Washington while sustaining the...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Will Trump subvert Iraq’s 2025 elections by coercing Baghdad into the US–Saudi orbit and away from Iran?

Will Trump subvert Iraq’s 2025 elections by coercing Baghdad into the US–Saudi orbit and away from Iran?

Iraqi political blocs—particularly those representing the Shia majority—were holding their breath, fearing an embarrassing low turnout that would...

24.11.2025 20

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Zayd Alisa

The Palestinian issue is not just Gaza: Beyond the headlines, a systemic crisis

The Palestinian issue is not just Gaza: Beyond the headlines, a systemic crisis

When confrontations erupt in Gaza, global attention intensifies. Images of destruction dominate news cycles, political statements multiply, and...

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Tareq Alnajjar

A historic decline in sympathy for Israel in Britain, and an unprecedented rise in solidarity with Palestine in 2025

A historic decline in sympathy for Israel in Britain, and an unprecedented rise in solidarity with Palestine in 2025

Public sentiment in Britain today is markedly different from what it was two years ago. A society that once observed developments in the Middle...

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Adnan Hmidan

Colonialism and imperialism endorsed at the UNSC

Colonialism and imperialism endorsed at the UNSC

The UN Security Council Resolution 2803(2025) undermines all the purported purpose of maintaining peace and security. Talking about Gaza without...

24.11.2025 10

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Ramona Wadi

UN flaws and paralysis fueled Gaza atrocities, Brazil’s ex-foreign minister says

UN flaws and paralysis fueled Gaza atrocities, Brazil’s ex-foreign minister says

Latin America is advancing a coordinated push to elevate accountability demands against Israel within the UN system. In Chile, civil society groups...

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Eman Abusidu