- Expatriate workers in the UAE be warned: overzealous securocrats in the Gulf oligarchies are watching you and all other foreigners, ready to pounce if you dare to criticise any...
- 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...