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January 16, 2015

Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire

After testifying in court during the bail hearing in what has become known as South Africa’s first murder resulting from Islamophobic violence, a number of journalists approached me and...

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January 16, 2015

Barghouti accuses PA of failure to face Israel’s calls for Jewish immigrants

Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouti accused the Palestinian Authority of failing to confront Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for European Jews to migrate to Israel. In a statement...

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January 16, 2015

Paris is a warning: there is no insulation from our wars

The official response to every jihadist-inspired terrorist attack in the west since 2001 has been to pour petrol on the flames. That was true after 9/11 when George Bush...

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January 16, 2015

Iranian minister calls for states to be stopped from manipulating oil prices

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs has called on the countries in the Middle East to take steps to make sure that no oil producer can...

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January 16, 2015

For every Raif Badawi flogged in Saudi dozens are silenced

Raif Badawi is a liberal from Saudi Arabia. In 2006, he started a website, Free Saudi Liberals. Intended as a platform for serious political and social debate, it published...

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January 16, 2015

BDS is gaining traction in Britain

The academic boycott of Israel was the theme of a discussion at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) this week. An event organised by the student...

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January 16, 2015

Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine

Contemporary perspectives of class struggle, the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle in Palestine have been thoroughly discussed in Ran Greenstein’s book, “Zionism and its Discontents: A century of radical dissent...

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January 16, 2015

Arab League to push for renewed Palestinian statehood bid

The Arab League yesterday authorised its members to seek international support for another UN resolution to end Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The decision was taken at the end of...

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January 16, 2015

Hezbollah: We have missiles that reach the occupation

In an apparently threat to Israel, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah yesterday announced that his party has had Iranian Fateh-110 missiles that could reach any part of the...

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January 16, 2015

Turkish PM likens Netanyahu to Paris attackers

Both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Paris attackers who killed 17 people last week “committed crimes against humanity”, Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said yesterday. Davutoğlu said...

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