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

The Jordan Times: When Namibia stands up to Germany: How Gaza revolutionised the Global South

By Ramzy Baroud. The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometres. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a strong stance against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Namibia was colonised by the Germans in 1884, while the

Asharq Al-Awsat: Questions Regarding the Cultural Themes of War

By Hazem Saghieh. Last Sunday (7/4) the Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” published an investigative report by Judy Maltz, the newspaper’s Jewish World correspondent, entitled “Six Months On: How October 7 and the Gaza War Transformed Jews Across the Globe.” It traces how these two major events have reflected on the lives of Jewish individuals: 7 in

Consortium News: Arabs Divided on ICJ Ruling

By As`ad AbuKhalil. The liberal Arab camp thinks the ICJ ruling will lead to a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian question, while the popular camp has lost faith in international organizations, including the ICJ. Israel will forever be stained with the label of genocide and its supporters will always be accused of supporting genocide after

Responsible Statecraft: On Gaza: What would Martin Luther King do?

By Michael Mcbride. He insisted in 1967 that it was morally imperative for the US to stop its role in the Vietnam war. He would be calling for Biden to demand a ceasefire now. As we celebrate the life and legacy of Reverend Martin Luther King today, we cross the 100-day mark in the devastating

Mondoweiss: South Africa honored the Palestinian plight, and the world was forced to listen

By Hebh Jamal. For a majority of us Palestinians, trust in any international body or organization has dwindled to nothing. We watched for the past three months as Israel waged and continues to wage a total war against everyone living in the besieged Gaza Strip. For three months, Palestinians have called time and time again

The Jordan Times: The Gaza war has finished off Israeli impunity

By Michael Jansen. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to hold public hearings today and tomorrow on an urgent case submitted by South Africa charging Israel with the crime of genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. South Africa has called on the ICJ, also known as the World Court, for an emergency order

Arab News: How Palestinians have become the victims of Zionist history

By Ramzy Baroud. Thousands of miles separate Uganda and the Congo from the Gaza Strip, but these places are connected to Palestine in ways that traditional geopolitical analyses fail to explain. It was last week revealed that the far-right Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu is actively discussing proposals to expel millions of Palestinians to African

Rai al-Youm: Rolling out the red carpet

Arab states are colluding in the US/Israeli war on Palestinian resistance By Abdel Bari Atwan. It was a disgrace for Arab leaders to attend the Cop28 conference in Dubai alongside Israel’s president Isaac Herzog while it wages a genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip that has claimed the lives of at least 15,000 innocent civilians

History.com: This Day In History (November 6-1962): UN condemns apartheid in South Africa

By History.com Editors. On November 6, 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country. In effect from 1948 to 1993, apartheid, which comes from the Afrikaans word for “apartness,” was government-sanctioned racial segregation