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Items by Nasim Ahmed
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‘Kill Zone: Inside Gaza’ is a tribute to Palestinian courage and an indictment of genocidal Israel
The Channel 4 Dispatches documentary “Kill Zone: Inside Gaza” is a heart-wrenching, unfiltered look at the devastation inflicted upon Palestinian civilians, particularly women and children, in Israel’s relentless military offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip. The film, pieced together from footage captured by twelve courageous Palestinian journalists who risked...
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What’s missing in the historic ICC decision to bring Israeli leaders to justice for war crimes?
MEMO's political analyst Nasim Ahmad presents his op-ed about the historic ICC decision to bring Israeli leaders to justice for war crimes. On 20 May 2024, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav...
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Fact-checking Biden: The myth of 'ancient hatred for Jews' in the Middle East debunked
MEMO's political analyst Nasim Ahmed presents his latest op ed: 'Fact-checking Biden: The myth of 'ancient hatred for Jews' in the Middle East debunked'...
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How defenders of Israel genocide sparked a debate about the fall of the West
Our contemporary discourse is gripped with tales about the “fall of the West”. It takes many forms. On one side of the spectrum is the racist and conspiratorial “Great Replacement Theory”, known also as the “White Genocide Theory”. Proponents of this theory, who are almost entirely from the right,...
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‘The political-media-industrial complex’ undermining truth and democracy in service of Israel
In the relentless propaganda war waged against Palestinians, the scales have been heavily tipped in favour of Israel. Disinformation and half-truths are routinely employed to depict Palestinians as aggressors, terrorists or simply as non-existent entities within their own homeland. Every assertion made by Israeli officials in this theatre of...
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The irony: Israel's supporters use ‘woke’ playbook to censor Palestinian voices
In recent years, a new line of attack has emerged from many pro-Israel groups, conservative commentators, politicians and activists – the idea that “wokeness” and oversensitivity to giving offence are threatening free speech. According to this argument, left-leaning activists and their allies are trying to shut down any speech...
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Dismantle Israel’s ‘Anatomy of Genocide’: bring back UN Special Committee against Apartheid
In her latest report, “Anatomy of a Genocide,” the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, concluded that the threshold for genocide has been met in Israel’s military assault on Gaza. Albanese cites several reasons for reaching that conclusion. First, the Special...
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Senator Chuck Schumer exposed just how fragile Israel is
What did US Senator Chuck Schumer mean when he said that “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah?” Schumer, a Democrat of New York, and the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the US made the comment last week while delivering a pointed speech on the Senate floor excoriating...
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Contrived moral panic about Muslims: Tories' tool-kit for UK's authoritarian shift
The UK is about to take another step towards authoritarianism, cloaked in the guise of safeguarding “British Values”. A new, insidious definition of extremism is set to be unveiled, carrying with it the potential to erode the very foundations of freedom and tolerance that lie at the heart of...
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Uncovering Lebanon's hidden histories of violence in The Soil and the Sea
“What is happening in Gaza is genocide, perpetrated as the world watches,” lamented filmmaker Daniele Rugo during our recent discussion about his impactful new documentary The Soil and the Sea. As Israel’s bombs have rained down death and destruction across the besieged coastal enclave, Rugo reflected on the suffering...
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Anti-Zionism is now a protected belief in Britain; time for a reckoning for pro-Israel lobbyists?
Zionism is a form of racism; the ideology which underpins the occupation state of Israel calls for the ethnic cleansing and disenfranchisement of non-Jews in favour of Jews. Zionism seeks to transform historic Palestine into Greater Israel; its racist aspirations means that it is ideologically bound to lead to...
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What is UNRWA, and why is Israel trying to have it closed down?
At least 10 Western governments, including the US, UK and Germany, suspended their donations to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) last week after twelve of its staff were accused by Israel of involvement in the 7 October Hamas incursion. The agency is a lifeline for 5.6 million...
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‘We came to Israel and left from Palestine’: the awakening of young American Jews
The awakening within the American Jewish community about the lies and propaganda they were subjected to as children in advancing the Zionist cause is powerfully told in the documentary, Israelism. It follows two young American Jews, Simone Zimmerman and Eitan (who does not use his last name). Zimmerman went...
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Palestine Ambassador to UK calls to end Israel’s ‘war of vengeance, a war of rage’
The Palestinian Mission in Britain convened a press conference in London today on the latest developments in Gaza, marking 100 days of Israel’s deadly bombardment of the besieged enclave since 7 October. Ambassador Husam Zomlot briefed journalists on the current conditions in Gaza and the West Bank, offered his...
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David Cameron failed miserably trying to make Israel’s case in parliament
The Economist published a revealing article last week examining why Germany “goes too far defending Israel.” It was written after several high-profile Germans faced allegations of anti-Semitism. They aren’t alone. An Indian poet, an Australian political scientist, an Irish folk troupe, a British architect, a Bangladeshi photographer, an American...
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Israel is a ‘fragile state’ in war against time
It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that Israel is a “fragile state.” The usual material indicators used to measure the strengths and weaknesses of a state would indicate that Israel is anything but a fragile state. Its population not only enjoys the living standards of countries in the developed...
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There is ‘absolutely no’ chance of a two-state solution because Israel killed it
“Why are you obsessed with a two-state solution?” said Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the UK during a Sky interview this week, snapping at the journalist for pressing her on the international consensus for ending Israel’s decades-long illegal occupation. “Why are you so obsessed with a formula that...
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Gaza at Doha Forum: MEMO speaks to PSC Director Ben Jamal
MEMO's Nasim Ahmed speaks with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Director Ben Jamal at Doha Forum about the discourse on Palestine in light of the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, which has claimed the lives of up to 20,000 Palestinians since 7 October 2023, the majority of whom have been...
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Israeli minister's ‘Palestinians are Nazis’ slur reveals a genocidal vision
Israel’s extreme far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described Palestinians in the West Bank as “Nazis” earlier this week, intensifying the dehumanisation process that enables genocide and ethnic cleansing. “There are two million Nazis in Judea and Samaria,” he told the Times of Israel, using the Biblical term for the...
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Debunked: The myth of complexity of Palestine-Israel
Don’t take my word for it, listen to one of America’s celebrated authors, Ta-Nehisi Coates describing how he felt after discovering how uncomplicated Israel’s occupation of Palestine is. "It is made to sound as if you need a degree in Middle East Studies or a PhD to really understand...
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Sorry, Obama, there’s no ‘complexity’ when one side is committing genocide
Former US President Barack Obama gave a stirring response to the Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza when he was asked about the current situation in the Middle East during a “Pod Save America” event. An excerpt of the interview released over the weekend, which has gone viral, has...
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Londoners gather in solemn solidarity for ‘Night for Gaza’
In a poignant show of solidarity, Londoners came together last night for ‘A Night for Gaza’, a sombre event mourning lives lost and voicing support for Palestinians facing devastating Israeli bombardment. Hosted by MEMO at the P21 Gallery, the evening provided a space for communal grief as artists and poets...
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As Gaza faces genocide, why is Jordan Peterson fuelling dehumanisation of Palestinians?
With the death toll in Gaza now surpassing the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims massacred in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, the refrain of “never again” rings devastatingly hollow. The world vowed never to allow such horrors after Srebrenica, just as it did after the Holocaust. Yet, here we are again –...
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Debunked: 'Gaza is not occupied'
Anyone interested in the truth should ask - if Israel doesn't occupy Gaza, why does it maintain the power to starve and withhold basic necessities? Israel wants the world to believe the myth that it “gave Gaza freedom.”...
