Middle East Near You

Gaza’s implosion is publicly coveted by Israel. Two years after the carnage and destruction wrought upon the enclave by “Operation Protective Edge”, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) officers have imparted...

As the end of Obama’s presidency draws near, there is no doubt that his legacy of furthering Israeli colonisation is, unfortunately, substantial

Palestinian prisoner Malik Al-Qadi, who has been on hunger strike for 66 days...

Wael Abdelal’s informative treatise, “Hamas and the Media: politics and strategy” draws upon the issue of counter-hegemony to portray the relevance and importance of resistance media, in this case,...

Rewarding human rights violations is a speciality of the US. History has recorded many precedents of aid flowing to countries in which dictatorships bludgeoned and disappeared their opposition. Israel,...

In another example of how Israel remains in contempt of human rights, morality and international law, the Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that force-feeding hunger striking Palestinian prisoners is...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s state visit to the Netherlands was an exercise in complete psychological and political manipulation. Not only did Netanyahu fail to distinguish between the aims...

Following news of renewed attempts at diplomatic negotiations with Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sought to impart a purportedly different stance that is laden with evident contradictions. According...

In Israel’s narrative, every entity and individual who doesn’t toe the colonial line is considered to be contributing towards “pushing peace further away”. This claim has now been made...

Two years have passed since Israel’s brutal military offensive – “Operation Protective Edge” – and justice for Palestinians remains elusive. This is due in large part to the fact...

The echelons of the power structure derived from the coloniser manifested itself in the brutal extrajudicial killing of Ahmed Halawa, who was beaten to death by PA security forces....

In the wake of Israel’s acceleration of home demolitions and forced displacement, segments of the international community issued their repetitive rhetoric of condemnation and appeasement. However, the issue of...

Punishing “Palestinians who support terrorism” is high on Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s agenda. A new proposal, scant details of which were reported in the Times of Israel, seeks...

Eliminating Palestine from Palestinian consciousness is a preoccupation of Israel, particularly prior to the start of each academic year, with additional efforts at intermittent intervals. The depletion of Palestinian...

Bashir Abu-Manneh’s detailed study “The Palestinian novel: From 1948 to the present” (Cambridge University Press, 2016) combines the historical processes of Palestinian memory and postcolonial and literary theory in...

Israel’s recent demolition of five Palestinian dwellings near South Hebron, three of which were funded by the European Union, seems to have attracted a sliver of international attention, particularly...