Middle East Near You

The petition for South Africa's ANC-led government to lift punitive visa restrictions on Palestinians wanting to travel to the country is an embarrassing but necessary exercise. Many people, including...

When I applauded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for his firm stance against "normalisation" with Israel earlier this month, a friend posed an interesting query. Is it true, he...

As Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up to the podium flanked by the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the UAE to sign what has been hailed as a...

Is it a case of much ado about nothing or does it pose a significant challenge to undermine key components of Israel's multi-layered myths? From the heated backlash unleashed...

South Africa's Chief Justice has come under intense fire for publically expressing his love for Israel. Mogeong Mogeong made his pro-Israel comments on an online platform hosted by the...

Does the current wave of protests across America sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd by a white police officer present an existential threat to Israel? I hope...

A brutal legacy of Apartheid South Africa's notorious assault on human rights was the violent enforcement of detention without trial. Scores of people targeted as opponents of white minority...

As the coronavirus pandemic overwhelms the world, bringing to a halt almost all social, cultural and economic activities, Turkey is in the firing line. Bizarrely, it is facing the...

Shortly after her visit to South Africa earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government made a shocking announcement in defence of Israel's horrendous record of serious human rights...

There is no doubt that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and millions of their compatriots living in squalid refugee camps in neighbouring countries will be appalled that the Trump...

Is South Africa among those countries which are standing aside as the world is confronted with illegal moves by the Trump administration to facilitate Israel's complete annihilation of Palestine?...

Is America preparing to go to war with Iran? This is the question dominating discussions around dinner tables as well as boardrooms. Confined not only to the Middle East,...

The annual Quds Day commemoration for 2019, which is held on the last Friday of Ramadan in many parts of the world, will be distinguished from previous years as...

If America's standing as the "leader of the free world" has been on shaky ground following its disastrous wars post-9/11, US President Donald Trump has ensured that whatever little...

Having lost considerable influence in Europe and other parts of the world over the chaotic Brexit process, Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking to gain leverage by boxing-in...

Israel's war criminals who head the settler regime's apartheid government, are in all likelihood deeply disappointed at the way 2018 has ended. Since Donald Trump's election as America's president, Israel...

The UN Human Rights Council's allegedly "unconscionable" approach to Israel is the reason cited by the Trump administration for withdrawing unceremoniously from the international body. Using the excuse that...

Nothing could illustrate the stark contrast between a post-1994 democratic South Africa and Israel's apartheid structures than the iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson taken by Sam Nzima. The picture...

At a time when South Africa is mourning the passing of the country's beloved icon of the freedom struggle Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the world is reeling from yet more evidence...

In a remarkably fresh approach to their resistance against Israel's seven decades of colonialism, Palestinians have mobilised en masse in what has been dubbed the Great Return March. Starting...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's brief stopover in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank has been hailed by parts of India's media as "historic". It is premised...

Generations of Kashmir's people have waited in vain for an end to India's brutal military occupation and to celebrate their independence and freedom. Alas, seven decades have passed and...

On a massive drive to cast Israel as a "normal democracy" and woo audiences in India's film-crazy population, its war criminal leader Benjamin Netanyahu has just made a whirlwind...

South Africa and Saudi Arabia represent two distinctly different countries, populations and regions. Much can be written and said about the huge chasms that separate the two "SAs", not...

The approval of thousands more housing units in Israel's illegal colony-settlements across the occupied West Bank is the latest undertaking by the country's extreme right-wing regime led by war-criminal...

The House of Saud will, no doubt, be quite pleased with itself that the Hajj 2017 has concluded without any setbacks or hitches worth reporting. In fact, it will...

Renowned Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy wrote in his latest op-ed for the newspaper that, "A state that celebrates 50 years of occupation is a state whose sense of direction...

Israel's racist right wing regime is turning the heat on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists. Is this any different to the "total onslaught" against freedom struggle activists by...

Has President Jacob Zuma ever considered replacing his official spokesperson with David Saks of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies? Perhaps he should, for the two share an...

Israel's war of terror against the Palestinians and their land is an unrelenting act of aggression and hostility. That it is ongoing after seven decades, and that the brutality...

The month of September carries painful memories for Palestinians. It is marked by commemoration activities recalling the horrors of Israel's brutal and bloody massacres. Without exception, Palestinians as a...

Toenadering is an Afrikaans term which was used as derisively by the far-right to describe the implied closeness between the former Apartheid government of the National Party and the...