The new songs about peace are being sung, as if the situation in the Middle East has come to a happy conclusion. This is very misleading, as the region is mired in wars and apparently endless conflicts and yet Arab states talk of peace with Israel but do not dare to raise the issue of human rights, justice, dignity and international law. The more “normalisation” that takes place, the more repression, intimidation and injustice we see in those Arab countries which have opted to side with the Isra

This is not an alliance between two states. It is an Israeli project for regional hegemony and influence, with Emirati funding and promotion

The U.S.-brokered pact makes no pretense of peace for Palestinians. Instead, it sharpens a regional coalition against Iran.

The invocation of Abraham is just the latest move to rewrite the horrific colonial reality of Zionism and Israel in terms of religious and fraternal discord

During this century, 2020 seems like a year we would like to remove from our memory.  With life being toppled upside down for everybody all over the world due to the Corona Pandemic,  forces of evil still find a way to strike again and again

Fifty years ago, Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani put forward a clear position about the boycott of Israel. Kanafani was, at the time, not only an esteemed novelist and short story writer. He was also one of the leading spokespeople of the Palestinian armed revolution, representing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.