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Items by Dr Chandra Muzaffar
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The Gaza ceasefire – a cunning camouflage
The Gaza ceasefire is a cunning camouflage for continuing the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. The day after the second phase of the Trump initiated Ceasefire was announced on Thursday, 5th February 2026, Israel carried out multiple air-strikes in East Gaza City which killed 16 Palestinians. A number of…
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Why President Trump should be disinvited from the ASEAN Summit
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) joins a whole host of Malaysian groups and individuals in appealing to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to formally disinvite President Trump to the forthcoming ASEAN Summit to be held in Kuala Lumpur from 26 October to 28 October 2025. JUST understands the…
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Why context is important in Palestine
The genocide in Gaza is ongoing. More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel from October 2023 to date, 17,000 of whom were children. This is the largest number of children killed in a genocide over a fourteen-month period. Indeed, most of the dead were children and women. Palestinians…
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The Gaza catastrophe: Checking Israeli and Western elites
Israel is determined to take over North Gaza. This explains its destruction of residential areas in the region. Schools and hospitals have also been targeted. People have been forced to flee their homes. Many who have chosen to stay behind have been killed. Although some food and other essentials are…
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Palestine and the role of international laws and conventions
Israel’s wanton aggression against Lebanon has overshadowed an important decision by the UN General Assembly. On Wednesday, 18 September, 124 nations voted in favour of a General Assembly resolution to end Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem in Palestine. The resolution was prompted by…
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Israeli terror in Lebanon
When thousands of pagers and other communication devices exploded simultaneously last week in Lebanon, it was a dastardly act of terrorism by the Israeli regime. Totally indiscriminate, people from all walks of life were killed or wounded. This was a clear attempt to spread fear and terror among ordinary people,…
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BlackRock: there can be no compromise with evil
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) empathises with the concerns expressed by several NGOs and public figures in Malaysia over the involvement of the investment fund manager BlackRock in Malaysia’s infrastructure development. BlackRock has extensive investments in companies allied closely to Israel’s arms industry. It has, for example,…
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ICJ on Gaza: Acting against Israel
Five days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced various interim measures aimed at preventing the State of Israel from committing acts in Gaza, which come within the scope of the Genocide Convention, such as “killing members of the (targeted) group, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life…
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South Africa seeks justice for Gaza
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) commends the Government of South Africa for requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an urgent order declaring that Israel is in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Geneva Convention for its massive slaughter of Palestinians living in Gaza.…