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Items by Adnan Hmidan
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How Israeli propaganda works: Oppose the occupation and you become “Hamas”, “Muslim Brotherhood”, or “Anti-Semitic”!
As Palestinians mark the seventy-eighth anniversary of the Nakba, I found myself once again turning over old photographs and fragments of memory from my destroyed village, Majdal Al-Sadiq; a village erased during the creation of Israel, from which my father was expelled as an eight-year-old child. On a day heavy…
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Are Gaza anti-blockade flotillas futile?
Each time a new flotilla sets sail towards Gaza with the aim of challenging the blockade, the same question is repeated: what is the point if these ships are intercepted before they arrive? From a purely logistical perspective, the pattern appears predictable. The vessels are stopped. The participants are detained.…
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The sadistic selfie: When occupation turns suffering into spectacle
A photograph is often described as a neutral record of reality. Yet, within the context of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, a particular genre of imagery has emerged that is anything but neutral. Over the past two decades, a disturbing visual record has taken shape, not compiled by investigators or…
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The normalisation of brutality: When will we reclaim our humanity?
What we are witnessing today across occupied Palestine is not a glitch in the system of international order, nor is it a sudden detour from the established behaviour of the Israeli occupation. The greatest mistake observers can make is to treat the current escalation of atrocities as a momentary lapse…
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Trump’s Doctrine: When War Becomes a Business Model
The explosions now echoing across Iran, Lebanon, and parts of the Gulf are not merely the sounds of another Middle Eastern war. They also reflect a particular political mindset—one that views conflict not as a last resort, but as a negotiating instrument. To understand the current escalation, it is necessary…
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Government dealt a blow: Highest court deems Palestine Action ban unlawful
In a moment that exposed the flimsy nature of the government narrative, Keir Starmer’s government suffered a resounding blow from the UK Supreme Court after it struck down the decision to ban the activist group Pal Action and ruled it unlawful. This was not a mere procedural detail; it was…
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The choice between freedom and death: Why the resistance does not seek validation from the idle
In an era of profound global imbalances, where the scales of justice are discarded and “might” dictates “right”, a question arises whether resistance is an act of folly and recklessness? Should the victim be responsible for the wrath of the oppressor? Today, we are witnessing a narrative that seeks, consciously…
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Gaza Holds a Mirror to the World
In most parts of the world, a patient’s journey to treatment begins at the hospital door. In Gaza, it begins at the door of politics, passes through layers of security and often never reaches a doctor at all. The occupation has reduced the Gazan to a dossier, rather than a…
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Trump’s “Peace Council”: When Spain says no, and those claiming to stand with Palestine say yes
The problem is not that the international system has failed. That has been evident for a long time. The real problem is that this failure is no longer managed with embarrassment or disguised by diplomatic lingo. It is now being replaced with open political arrogance, presented to the world as…
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We must act before Palestinian hostages are executed in the world’s worst prisons
Warnings are no longer enough. Condemnation alone no longer carries any weight. We are standing at a moment that will be remembered, not for what was said, but for what was done. Today, in Israeli prisons, Palestinians are not simply being detained. They are being pushed, step by step, towards…
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The abduction of Maduro and collapse of international order
The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from the presidential palace in Caracas by a US Delta Force unit, acting on direct orders from Donald Trump, and their transfer from their bedroom to a military base in New York in preparation for trial before a US court,…
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In the midst of collapse: Why the narrative is unravelling faster than expected
The longer one observes the trajectory of current events, this sustained accumulation of violence, dispossession and mass civilian suffering, the harder it becomes to dismiss what is unfolding as disorder or excess. What we are witnessing is not chaos without logic, but a process of exposure: a global order under…
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A legal victory that shakes the Zionist narrative: What comes after the Bob Vylan and Reginald D Hunter cases?
Legal rulings are not always the end of a battle, but they are often signposts along the way. What happened with artists Bob Vylan and Reginald D Hunter must be understood in this light. Both faced legal and public pressure in Britain after taking outspoken pro-Palestine positions, triggering smear campaigns…
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Dr Hussam Abu Safiya deserves the title of “Hostage of the Year 2025”
If the world were honest with itself, it would admit that some crimes no longer bother to hide. They are committed openly, in full view of cameras, satellites, and international institutions that claim to be watching, documenting, and safeguarding human rights. In 2025, if there were a grim global title…
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Bondi Beach attack: How the media smears pro-Palestine protests while erasing a Muslim hero
The media reaction to the attack on Jewish individuals at Bondi Beach has revealed far more about entrenched bias and selective outrage than about the incident itself. Within hours, large sections of the press and broadcast media shifted their focus away from the facts and towards exploiting the attack to…
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A priest, a rabbi and a sheikh stand together against Zionism in Istanbul
The gathering in Istanbul was neither ordinary nor familiar. Nothing about it felt routine. On the shores of a city whose history is still being written in blood and in conscience, a priest, a rabbi and a sheikh came together not to debate theology, but to affirm a shared moral…
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When the Palestinian flag soars in London but fades across Arab horizons
The sight of the Palestinian flag sweeping through London’s streets is no longer a sporadic gesture enabled merely by freedom of expression. It has become a vivid expression of a global conscience that insists on seeing the truth and resisting every attempt to obscure it. Meanwhile, the same flag, the…
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A historic decline in sympathy for Israel in Britain, and an unprecedented rise in solidarity with Palestine in 2025
Public sentiment in Britain today is markedly different from what it was two years ago. A society that once observed developments in the Middle East from a comfortable distance is now expressing a clearer and more confident moral position on the genocide in Gaza. The scale of this shift can…
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Red ribbons in London: A silent uprising bringing Palestinian hostages back into view
Walking through Westminster, in the quiet rush of central London, flashes of red caught my attention — ribbons tied to lampposts, railings, and street fixtures. They were not adverts or campaign posters, but dense, symbolic gestures: spontaneous in form, unmistakable in meaning. They returned to public sight faces that have…
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Why Israel’s blackmail over humanitarian aid reveals weakness and fear
Israel’s demand that humanitarian organisations recognise it as a “Jewish state” and renounce international law before delivering aid to Gaza is not an act of confidence — it is an admission of fear. No legitimate nation makes its existence a precondition for feeding children. A state secure in its legitimacy…
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Sudan’s War: How Hemedti’s gold empire is driving the country toward division
While global attention is fixed on Gaza and Ukraine, another catastrophe is unfolding largely out of sight — a war tearing Sudan apart and threatening to redraw Africa’s map once again. Sudan now stands on the brink of disintegration, pulled apart by one of the most destructive conflicts the continent…
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Catherine Connolly’s victory: Europe’s moral rebellion against the Israeli occupation
When Catherine Connolly was elected President of Ireland, the shockwaves were felt far beyond Dublin. Her victory was not a symbolic gesture, nor a routine political milestone. It was a direct moral rebuke to the Israeli occupation and to the lobbying networks that have relied on silencing, intimidating, and dictating…
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An open wound: 9,100 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons amid western silence
Beneath the world’s silence, Israel’s prisons consume lives like black holes — devouring the living and releasing only broken bodies and haunted souls. Behind those walls are more than 9,100 Palestinians: around 400 children and 75 women, as well as doctors, teachers and journalists whose only act was to serve…
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Why we must keep marching for Palestine — even after the announcement of the first phase of Trump’s agreement
Every time the world hears of a “new development” — a roadmap, a framework, or now the first phase of Trump’s agreement — many are encouraged to believe that this could be the long-awaited turning point. Statements are issued, optimism is staged, and the international community rushes to congratulate itself…