RIAC: Trump is Better for Palestinians

By Rich Berdan. President Joe Biden finds himself in the corner of the sandbox when the mainstream media calls him out for his dithering on the anti-Semitic demonstrations across universities in America by politically conflating Islamophobia on the same level. The escape hatch for Biden’s media friends to prop him up is a growing narrative

Responsible Statecraft: Is 24/7 protest coverage distracting from the real war, in Gaza?

By Jack Hunter. The media can’t seem to handle more than one major story at a time. In this case, it may be a fatal flaw The campus protests over the Israel-Gaza war and similar demonstrations throughout the United States are ongoing, with questions about free speech, law enforcement overreach, anti-semitism, and individual university responses

Russia Today: Why Israel is the one thing you can’t protest against in Western universities

By Rachel Marsden. The crackdown on pro-Palestine campus protests might just make college kids hate the establishment again The American university crowd didn’t seem to mind too much when the state was ushering in authoritarian green policies under the dodgy pretext of reducing the temperature of the planet. Or when campuses were banning right-wing speakers.

Asharq Al-Awsat: The Biggest Losers Are American Universities

By Sawsan al-Abtah. The plan to suppress students at American universities and paint them as “anti-Semitic” had been almost fully developed before they began protesting against the Gaza massacres. Israel has been preparing this plan for a long time, and it never lost sight of these crucial sites that cultivate opinion and decision makers and

Rai al-Youm: Netanyahu’s anguish

By Abdel Bari Atwan. The US student protests against Israel’s genocide herald major change I have never seen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu look so anguished as in the video he posted on ‘X’ on Thursday, in which he condemned the student protests in US universities, branded them anti-Semitic, likened them to 1930s Germany, and

Asharq Al-Awsat: Images of the ‘West,’ Our’s and Israel’s

By Hazem Saghieh. If its link with the West is among the most robust sources of Israel’s power, it could potentially become among the weakest. In the face of the West’s intense military, political, and financial support, there is a Western paradigm that the Jewish state favors and gravitates towards. What is this paradigm? It

Consortium News: Hamas Before and After Oct. 7

By As’ad AbuKhalil. Hamas has been an important factor in Arab politics since its founding in 1987. It stirred controversy from the very beginning: many objected to its references to the repugnant Protocols of the Elders of Zion (the notorious antisemtic forgery) in the founding document, and it exhibited anti-Jewish sentiments — and even anti-Christian

Russia Today: Western virtue signaling goes hypersonic over Israel

By Rachel Marsden. With all the rhetoric bluster and warmongering coming from Washington and Brussels, it’s clear that peace isn’t their first priority “Israel has the right to defend itself – today and in the days to come. The European Union stands with Israel,” tweeted European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, effectively blessing a carte blanche

Mint Press News: From Oslo to Unity: Reimagining Palestine Solidarity for the Future

By Dr. Ramzy Baroud. It is a new era in Palestine. This new era is taking shape before our very eyes, through the blood, tears and sacrifices of a brave generation that is fighting on two fronts – against the Israeli military occupation, on the one hand, and collaborating Palestinians masquerading as a ‘leadership,’ on

Consortium News: Kissinger & the Arabs

By As`ad AbuKhalil. The role of the former senior U.S. foreign policy adviser  — who just turned 100 — has been overstated in the Arab world. But that is not to exonerate  his crimes. Henry Kissinger looms large in the thinking of people in the Arab world.  The former U.S. secretary of state’s name is often invoked in