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Items by Zaakir Ahmed Mayet
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Tangled in conspiracy theories and violence, Muslims prepare for a new Islamophobic law
In the wake of the tragic and violent Islamophobic murder of Aboubakar Cissé — who was stabbed 57 times in a mosque — Muslims were left to grieve for both his loss and the countless lives lost in Palestine. The State had the opportunity to halt its relentless Islamophobic...
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‘Voluntary migration’ doesn’t disguise Israel’s forced displacement campaign in Gaza amid deafening international silence
Israel is no longer concealing its intention to forcibly displace Palestinians from their homeland, as it now announces this plan more openly than ever before through official rhetoric at the highest levels, said Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor in a report issued today. Through actions on the ground and institutional...
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The US is disappearing dissenters in broad daylight
Just before breaking her fast during Ramadan, Rumeysa Ozturk—a Turkish PhD student at Tufts University—was forcibly taken by masked federal agents as she left her Somerville home to meet friends. There were no warnings, no charges and no explanation. Within hours, she had vanished into a system that has...
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Washington is undermining international justice
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has long been a source of controversy in political circles, especially among the major powers which fear that their leaders or armed forces will be indicted on war crimes charges. To the Israeli occupation state, the court represents a potential threat due to its...
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Germany: On the way to authoritarianism in the service of Zionism
Germany’s unqualified support for the Zionist genocide has accelerated its transformation from an already hollowed-out neoliberal democracy into an authoritarian society. After 15 months of inhumane crimes against the Palestinians, Germany’s political elite are more intent than ever on suppressing any criticism of this heinous slaughter. Every effort is...
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Is Trump’s lifting of sanctions against Israeli settlers a green light for more violence?
The Trump administration last week officially removed sanctions on more than 30 illegal Israeli settlers and groups in the occupied West Bank, reversing a Biden-era policy in an executive order by the new president. The move came after a ceasefire and prisoner swap deal in Gaza, as well as...
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The unjustifiable war in Gaza
Writer Ernest Hemingway said in 1946, “Never think a war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” A morally justified war, where the use of force is considered to be the last resort to restore peace, is known as a just war. However, this very...
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Has Israel reached its limits in Lebanon?
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which began in October 2023, entered a new phase on 17 September, 2024. The process started with Israel’s detonation of thousands of electronic devices used by Hezbollah and continued with the assassination of many of the movement’s top leaders, including its Secretary-General. Thinking...
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The media ordeal in Tunisia
If there is a profession in Tunisia that has become truly oppressive against its people, it is definitely the profession of journalism, and if there is anyone in this profession who is classified as being in great suffering, it is undoubtedly those who gather a small number of voices...
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Prosecution of dual-national Israeli soldiers
Since October last year, Israeli officials have not only made genocidal statements but have been acting upon them physically. As Palestinian health authorities report, Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 42,600 Palestinians so far, the majority women and children. The United Nations also states...
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The IDF and ISIS are two sides of the same coin as agents of chaos in the Middle East
In examining the evolution of extremist movements in the Middle East, the parallels between Zionist militant groups and notorious organisations like ISIS share a disturbing commonality rooted in religious extremism and a quest for ethno-religious supremacy. While often viewed as opposing forces, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and the...
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Why were the Tunisian and Algerian presidential elections so similar?
There were many similarities between the Algerian presidential election, which took place on 7 September, and the election in Tunisia a month later. The similarities did not end at the results, which saw both presidents winning by percentages that take the two countries back to the one-party era and...
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Another coup in Tunisia
Two major disasters have befallen Tunisia in recent days: the first is a blatant crushing of the law with an unprecedented level of arrogance and the second is a deliberate abortion of any hope for peaceful change through free presidential elections. These are two painful blows because what is...
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Israel’s growing emigration rate has serious consequences
The consequences of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood for Israel and its economy are ongoing, and the confidence in security and the sense of superiority that disappeared on the morning of 7 October will probably take years to return, if they ever do. The supposed infallibility of the Israeli security services...
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War on Gaza leaves triplets separated from their mother for 1 year
A year after giving birth to triplets in East Jerusalem’s Makassed Hospital, Palestinian from Gaza, Hanane Bayouk, remains separated from them because of Israel’s war on the Strip. Twenty-six-year-old Hanane gave birth to her daughters – Najoua, Nour and Najmeh – in Jerusalem on 24 August 2023, after receiving...
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Bangladesh is on the verge of incredible reform, but concerns remain
The longest-serving prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, fled to India on 5 August after protests engulfed the country of 171 million people. Around 450 protesters were killed by Hasina’s brutal crackdown. At the same time, mass arrests, shoot-on-sight orders, curfews and blackouts on the media, news and internet...
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US presidential election 2024: Striking the right balance will be essential
As the 2024 US presidential election approaches, the contest between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump is highly charged. Polls show both candidates with close vote shares, and the success of each campaign will depend on effectively galvanising their support base, convincing undecided voters and winning swing states....
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Israel’s systematic immorality and terror contradict its claims of self-defence
The Second Arab-Israeli War marked a dark chapter in the history of modern conflict, exposing the brutal realities of Israel’s military strategies. On 29 October, 1956, backed by France and the United Kingdom, Israel invaded Egypt, ostensibly to break the blockade on the Straits of Tiran. This invasion led...
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Tunisia elections 2024: Either Kais Saied or no one
Either in prison or on their way to prison … This is the situation faced by almost every serious candidate for the presidential elections in Tunisia scheduled for 6 October. What some feared or expected has now become a reality for everyone: the current President Kais Saied is not...
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Why should President Tebboune address the Algerian people?
We have not been plagued in Algeria by presidents who talk a lot, with or without a special occasion on which to do so, as is the case in some countries, if we exclude the short period after independence, during which Ahmed Ben Bella was president of the republic....
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Netanyahu is ‘enslaving national interest for his own political, criminal interests’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “enslaving Israel’s national interest in the service of his own political, personal and criminal interests,” according to a former member of Israel’s National Security Council. Most Israelis believe that Netanyahu is “operating for his own political interests and not for the national interest,” Eran...
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Israel’s admission that it targeted a journalist exposes crude attempt to control war narrative
Ismail Al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami Al-Refee were observing the conflict-zone-reporting best practice, as they motored back from their assignment on the last day of July. Having reported issues facing the displaced people of northern Gaza, they were leaving the scene of greatest danger. Blast vests bearing the insignia...
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The European stance on Palestine is changing
The European stance on the issue of Palestine, particularly in the context of the ongoing war in Gaza, exhibits a complex and often contradictory nature across different EU member states and institutions, including the European Commission, the EU and the European Council. Historically, the EU has supported the two-state...
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Could the US-China rivalry save the peace process in the Middle East?
The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh risks sabotaging an agreement between the disparate factions leading the Palestinian territories only days after it was signed. The deal, which was brokered by Beijing and was already viewed with scepticism and cynicism by Western pundits. Haniyeh’s assassination lends further fuel to...