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Items by Nasim Ahmed
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Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media
The Western imagination of Palestine has undergone many transformations. Today, the image of Palestine presented to us carries not only the weight of history but a warning about the future. What unfolds there is not just a story of occupation, but a harbinger of what may lie ahead. To see…
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Faith inspired liberation: uncovering Islam’s role in slave uprisings in the Americas
The Cordoba Foundation hosted the official launch of Dr Daud Abdullah’s latest book published by Hansib Publications, titled, Islam, Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads, in London this week. The event brought together academics, journalists, historians, and community figures to explore and reflect…
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My Palestine – An Impossible Exile
From the very first page of My Palestine: An Impossible Exile, Mohammad Tarbush opens a window into a lost world — his childhood village of Beit Nattif. Before its destruction in 1948, Beit Nattif lay on the Hebron Hills, about twenty kilometres southwest of Jerusalem. It was a thriving village…
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How pro-Israel money captured Starmer’s Labour
The UK Labour Party has been rocked by yet another scandal and is facing scrutiny over revelations that its leadership has been captured by a network of unelected funders and lobbyists with deep ties to Israel and Zionist organisations. At the centre of the controversy is Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s…
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Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture is a powerful collection of essays, testimonies and reflections edited by Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller. It brings together over 300 contributors writing from Gaza and beyond amid the ongoing genocide. The result is a powerful, often raw, and consistently moving…
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State-backed Islamophobia: Israel labels Muslim presence in Europe ‘true face of colonisation’
Israel’s role as one of the major contributors to the rise in global Islamophobia was further highlighted this week when the self-proclaimed Jewish state, founded through ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism, described the presence of Muslims in Europe as the “true face of colonization.” The incendiary statement came in a…
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‘It is pure vengeance’: Israel’s cruel detention of Maysoun Masharqa
Twenty-two days in solitary confinement. No charges. No trial. No family visits. No access to medication for chronic illness. This is the reality of 54-year-old Maysoun Mahmoud Masharqa’s detention in Israel’s Damon Prison. A nursery school director from Hebron, Masharqa has endured months of incarceration under conditions that amount to…
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London conference: ‘Stop funding the Zionist killing machine’ and end complicity in Gaza genocide
A compelling and deeply moving press conference, convened in London yesterday, laid bare the scale of destruction, suffering and starvation in Gaza and the complicity of the British government in Israel’s genocide. Hosted by the British Palestinian Committee and the UK Gaza Community, the event gathered British Palestinians, parliamentarians, doctors…
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Lawfare for apartheid: How UK institutions are weaponised to silence solidarity with Palestine
A devastating new report has exposed how legal and regulatory tools are being systematically manipulated in Britain by leading pro-Israel lobby groups to criminalise Palestinian solidarity and suppress dissent. Titled Britain’s Apartheid Apologists, the investigation by CAGE documents how UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA)…
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Sudan accuses UAE of fuelling genocide, calls for accountability at UK parliamentary roundtable
As Sudan enters the third year of a brutal civil war that has left its statehood hanging by a thread, urgent calls for international accountability set the tone for a roundtable in the UK Parliament yesterday. Hosted by the London-based think tank, the Centre for Turkey Studies (CEFTUS), the event…
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Biden never pressured Israel for ceasefire, as Israeli officials boast of exploiting US support
The administration of former US President, Joe Biden, knowingly allowed Israel’s genocide in Gaza to continue long after it had lost any clear military objective, with senior officials in Washington privately admitting it amounted to “killing and destroying for the sake of killing and destroying”. This damning assessment, along with…
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Sudan condemns UAE’s role in genocide as exclusion from London conference sparks outcry
As the UK convenes a high-profile international conference on Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and future, Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Ali Yousif, has issued a forceful response to his government’s exclusion from the event. Speaking at the Sudanese Embassy in London, Yousif warned of the dangerous precedent being set by…
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The weaponisation of anti-Semitism: how a fight against hate became a tool of oppression
America is sinking into a moral abyss, laid bare by the ruthless manner in which the administration of President Donald Trump is seeking to silence opposition to one of the worst atrocities of our time. In the Orwellian world that’s being constructed in front of our eyes, opposition to the…
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A new security order: The Arab world’s opportunity to challenge ‘Greater Israel’
The world is changing rapidly. The rules-based system is breaking down, insecurity is growing, and major powers are once again competing with each other directly. For the Arab world, this means facing difficult challenges to ensure its future. The US, which once guaranteed security in the region, has ostensibly stepped…
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The BBC’s surrender to pro-Israel lobbying: a history of censorship and bias
The latest capitulation by the BBC due to pressure from Israeli flunkies is an ideal time to review the history of the broadcaster’s surrender over the years. The removal of Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from BBC iPlayer after pressure from pro-Israel groups fits into a long pattern of…
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Saudi Arabia’s image makeover includes prisoner releases and power plays
Saudi Arabia has quietly increased its efforts to release political prisoners in recent weeks, a move that has drawn significant international attention. According to the Financial Times, the kingdom has been gradually freeing dozens of individuals who were detained for political reasons. This development is seen as part of Saudi…
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Criminalising dissent against 7 October narrative, Israel takes another turn towards authoritarianism
Israel has passed a new bill which criminalises the questioning of the official narrative regarding 7 October 2023. The law, passed without opposition, bars non-Israeli citizens from entering or residing in the country if they or the organisations they represent deny the 7 October attack, question the Holocaust, or support…
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The Gaza genocide and the unravelling of US hegemony
Israel’s war on Gaza has shattered whatever illusions remained about the strength of US hegemony in the Middle East. The essays in a recent study “Debating American Primacy in the Middle East” brings into sharp focus the extent to which the US funded Israeli genocide in Gaza has accelerated global…
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The cracks in MAGA: the American right is divided over the Middle East
Donald Trump’s return to the White House marked a new chapter in US politics, but it also exposed a growing split within the coalition that brought him back to power. The ideological fault line runs deep, cutting through the heart of the Republican Party’s foreign policy, particularly over the Middle…
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Musk, the world’s richest man, is also perhaps its most dangerous promoter of hatred
In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear annihilation, not because of some grand strategic masterstroke by a villain, but due to paranoia, hubris and the failure to interrogate our own assumptions. The war room is filled with men so consumed by ideology…
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Head of Israel’s ‘dream team’ ridiculed over ignorance of basic ICC jurisdiction
Controversial American lawyer Alan Dershowitz, reportedly assembling a “legal dream team” to defend Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC), has faced widespread criticism for displaying ignorance of the court’s jurisdiction. Dershowitz accused the ICC of double standards for failing to prosecute former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad while issuing arrest…
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‘The plan is just to kill’: personal testimonies of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
The British Palestinian Committee (BPC) and UK Gaza Community (UKGC) convened a press conference in London yesterday, bringing together healthcare workers and British-Palestinian voices to expose the scale of Israel’s systematic destruction of Gaza amid an enforced media blackout. The event, held metres away from BBC Broadcasting House, aimed to…
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Lammy’s hypocrisy sees him condemn Russian UN veto but downplay Israel’s genocide
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy went all out at the UN Security Council on Monday when he condemned Russia’s use of its veto to block a draft resolution for a ceasefire in Sudan. The draft had been prepared by the UK and Sierra Leone. “For over eighteen months, Sudanese civilians…
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Trump’s ‘peace through strength’ doctrine will put the US in the service of Jewish supremacy
If Donald Trump and his fervent supporters are to be believed, the President-elect’s promise to revive the “America First” agenda during his second term will be anchored in the principle of “peace through strength”. In the context of Israel-Palestine, such a vision is highly likely to empower Jewish supremacy and…