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LIVE UPDATES: Iran’s national security chief tells Trump to speak to Iranians with respect or face a response “in another language”

Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr has responded to threats by US President Donald Trump, describing him as "the deluded American president who today threatened 91 million Iranians".

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    • Gaza: On the ground

      • Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk

        Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 22 Jun

        MEMO speaks to Motasem A. Dalloul, a survivor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, as part of a new series of regular updates from the ground. Dalloul describes the daily struggle to survive: hunger, cold, the collapse of healthcare, and ongoing Israeli violations despite the so-called ceasefire.

    • MEMO in conversation

      • Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk

        MEMO in Conversation with Raouf Farrah

        In this conversation with Raouf Farrah, lead Africa analyst at SecDev and co-editor of Rising for Palestine, we discuss his new book and its call for renewed Africa-Palestine solidarity. We also discuss the Sumud convoy, a North African solidarity initiative organised to challenge Israel’s siege on Gaza. Farrah reflects on the political obstacles the convoy faced and what they reveal about the regional response to Palestine. Raouf Farrah is the Lead Africa Analyst at the SecDev Group, a risk analytics firm working at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. In 2025, he was instrumental in organising  The Sumud Convoy, an attempt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza This year, Farrah co-edited a book, Rising for Palestine. MORE >>> MEMO in […]

    • Reviews

      • Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk

        The Keys to my House: A Gaza Diary

        Sami al-Ajrami’s account of the first six months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza starts with a tenacious link to home and homeland. A week after Hamas infiltrated Israel, al-Ajrami decides to leave his home in Gaza, taking his two nineteen-year-old daughters with him. “This isn’t a rented apartment in some random condominium,” al-Ajrami writes in the first page of The Keys to my House: A Gaza Diary. “The house was built literally stone by stone by my family.” Originally from Beer Sheva, al-Ajrami’s grandfather arrived in Gaza in 1953. For al-Ajrami, Gaza is his permanent home, yet immediately the reader is told of how fragile the concept of home is in Gaza. Forced displacement remains a reality because of Israeli […]

    • Palestine This Week

      • Like Israel’s colonial expansion, the UN’s narratives also place Palestinians at risk

        Inside the Collapse of Global Accountability for Israel | Palestine This Week

        This episode of Palestine This Week opens with Israel’s renewed push to promote the so-called “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from Gaza, asking whether ethnic cleansing is now being pursued without even the pretence of concealment. We also look at Trump’s proposed Gaza board and warnings that it could create a legal black hole for officials and contractors, before turning to the unprecedented lawsuit filed by ICC judges against US sanctions they describe as an attempt to punish and coerce the court. The episode also explores growing threats to journalism, from the UK’s State Threats Bill to double standards in how the media defines press freedom, alongside new revelations about the Hannibal Directive during the events of 7 October. We then […]

Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads

“The Jewish KKK” and the Catastrophe Jewish Critics Warned Was Coming | Palestine This Week

Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy

MEMO in Conversation with Motasem A Dalloul