Al Mayadeen: Global Community and Shared Future

By Bouthaina Shaaban. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe was a strong, timely, and wise statement amid the current world and regional chaos, a statement in favor of all of the people in the world who are looking for an alternative order in a global community, which at the moment stands orderless. The entire

Rai al-Youm: Biden’s fake spat with Netanyahu

By Abdel Bari Atwan. Don’t be fooled by the US president’s pretence that he’s getting tough with Israel Joe Biden’s threat to suspend the shipment of heavy bombs to Israel to prevent it from invading Rafah is a poorly scripted and badly performed pantomime. It is intended to give the impression that there is a

Consortium News: History of US Activism for Palestine

By As`ad AbuKhalil. While their  ultimate impact should not be exaggerated, the protests for Palestine taking place on U.S. college campuses are historic. There is a long history of muted protests for Palestine on college campuses.  Imagine, Palestine never drew the attention of the American left in the 1960s and 1970s.  Few Americans knew the

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: The ideological coup: How disciples of Kahane became the new face of Israel

By Ramzy Baroud. Throughout history, fringe religious Zionist parties have had limited success in achieving the kind of electoral victories that would allow them an actual share in the country’s political decision-making. The impressive number of 17 seats won by Israel’s extremist religious party, Shas, in the 1999 elections, was a watershed moment in 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

Al Mayadeen: Palestine and the Problem of Land

By Hanna Eid. Peter Linebaugh’s article makes no mention of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the Axis of Resistance, or Iran, which form constituent elements of the ‘real movement’ in West Asia away from the dominance of imperialist power centers. The principal contradiction of our world system today remains the antagonism between the collective imperialism of the

Dissident Voice: Genocide as a Strategy for Success

By Paul Larudee. The future always surprises us to some degree. But we make plans, anyway, based on our projections, and we adjust them when our predictions are at least partially wrong, which they always are, because they make assumptions based upon things that we take for granted, such as our health and that meteors

Common Dreams: ‘Human Animals’: The Sordid Language Behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

By Ramzy Baroud. The post-October 7 vocabulary used by Israelis, but also many Americans, created the atmosphere necessary for the savage Israeli response which followed. “(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated frequently by the Radio Télévision Libre des Mille

Declassified UK: Weaponising antisemitism: The gift that keeps on giving

By Antony Lerman. Apologists for Israel’s brutality against Palestinians in Gaza are continuing to use the past persecution of Jews to neutralise criticism of Israel. Thousands of Israelis gathered in Jerusalem on 28 January for a far-right conference. It called for the Jewish resettlement of the Gaza Strip and the transfer of the population living