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Items by Ranjan Solomon
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From Mamdani’s victory to the future of Zionism: Lessons for a one-state of equals
Zohran Mamdani’s election victory in New York is more than a local political upset; it is a signal moment in the slow unravelling of fear-based politics worldwide. Mamdani, a young Muslim socialist of Ugandan-Indian heritage, defeated the full weight of a pro-Israel lobby campaign aimed at painting him as an…
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Tata Group’s ties with Israel: How Indian capital fuels occupation and genocide
The mask of modernity For over a century, the Tata Group has been celebrated as the conscience of Indian capitalism — a family of companies that fused profit with philanthropy, progress with ethics. To millions of Indians, “Tata” evokes trust: a brand woven into the very narrative of modern India.…
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The empire that disregards history: Why Israel and the US are losing the future
As settler power frays in Washington and Tel Aviv, the world does not merely witness geopolitical decline, it witnesses a moral and civilisational reckoning. The future is slipping away not because enemies are strong, but because empire has forgotten the human truth at the heart of justice. Empires rarely fall…
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Cease-fire betrayed: Israel’s strike wave and the human catastrophe in Gaza
On 10 October 2025, a U.S.-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Gaza took effect. The world was told violence would pause, civilians would breathe, reconstruction would begin. Instead, Israel has turned the cease-fire into a mask for continued aggression. Overnight on 28–29 October, Israeli airstrikes killed more than one hundred Palestinians,…
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Israel cheats on the ceasefire and jails a nation
Israel cheats on ceasefires as it cheats on the very notion of peace. No truce holds, because Israel never intends one to hold. Even as the world headlines declare “ceasefire in Gaza,” Israeli warplanes circle overhead and soldiers continue their raids. The guns never fall silent. Ceasefires, in Israel’s doctrine,…
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Hamas, democracy, and the right to resist: A case for Palestinian self-determination
In debates about Palestine, one recurrent Western refrain is that “terrorism” and “militant violence” automatically disqualify any actor from legitimacy. Such a position is intellectually dishonest and legally unsound. It erases the foundational principles of international law, sovereignty, and democracy that apply equally to all peoples. The case of Hamas,…
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Why Israel fears Marwan Barghouti’s freedom
Every time a ceasefire is announced in Gaza, the world breathes a short-lived sigh of relief. Yet peace never follows. The reason is simple: Israel has never sought a genuine political resolution. If it had, one name would have been at the top of every negotiation list — Marwan Barghouti,…
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Justice first: Rewriting the Gaza peace plan
The so-called Gaza deal, announced with fanfare by Washington, is neither just nor legitimate. It is a trophy for Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner — a cynical exercise in self-promotion disguised as diplomacy. For the people who matter most — the Gazans, the Palestinians, the Arab nations whose…
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Palestine in BRICS: Decolonisation’s second wave
When BRICS was first conceived, it was often reduced in Western commentary to an economic acronym, a clever grouping of emerging markets seeking to balance the financial weight of the United States and Europe. Yet beneath that pragmatic exterior, BRICS has always contained a deeper philosophical vision: the assertion that…
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Famine by design: Why the West must be sanctioned alongside Israel
The Gaza famine is a global Failure and a call for Justice. The famine in Gaza is not a natural disaster; it is a man-made catastrophe. Since the escalation of hostilities in October 2023, Gaza has been subjected to a relentless siege, cutting off essential supplies and services. The United…
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Kushner’s mirage: The “Gaza Riviera” and the theft of a homeland
Jared Kushner, the boy Prince of the Empire, has often been dismissed as an over-promoted son-in-law: a real estate heir, a political novice, and a “deal maker” with no grasp of history. Yet to trivialise him as a “know-nothing” is to miss the larger danger he embodies. Kushner’s role in…
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Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: A moral and deliberate failure
Donald Trump’s latest “peace plan” for Gaza, quietly endorsed or tolerated by the EU, and other global powers, is a continuation of decades-long oppression of the Palestinian people. It attempts to normalize Israeli occupation, reward aggressors, and punish the oppressed. This plan is neither fair nor constructive; it entrenches injustice…
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The oppressor within: How Israel turned Holocaust memory against Palestine
Israel often frames itself as a nation born from the ashes of unspeakable persecution. The Holocaust, in particular, is invoked as the eternal justification for its existence and its policies. Yet history’s cruellest irony is that the memory of Jewish suffering has been transformed into an instrument of domination over…
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Profit and complicity: How Indian investments sustain Israel’s occupation
In Gaza, the toll of occupation is brutally visible: families live amid ruins, hospitals strain under bombardment, and children grow up amid the echoes of conflict. Behind this visible devastation, there is a less visible but equally consequential story—one that links Indian corporations and capital to Israel’s machinery of occupation…
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Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the unmaking of an American order
For nearly a century, the United States projected itself as the indispensable architect of West Asia’s political and security order. From oil protection to weapons deals, from military interventions to normalization projects, Washington ruled by a mix of coercion and consent. Today that edifice is visibly cracking. The recent signing…
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Gaza’s genocide, the Ben-Gurion canal, and the politics of reconstruction – erasure by design
“Every plan, every scheme, every initiative put forward by Israel has meant in practice, the further dispossession has meant, in practice the further dispossession of the Palestinian people” The violence in Gaza is not simply episodic slaughter; it is an engineered campaign of erasure — of lives, livelihoods, memory, and…
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Israel, Qatar, and the global conscience
The streets of the world are alive. From Seoul to São Paulo, from New Delhi to Dakar, the voices of solidarity with Gaza resonate across continents. Citizens are no longer passive observers; they march, they chant, they demand justice. Gaza’s siege continues, yet its people—under bombardment, starvation, and blockade –…
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Nuclear apartheid in the 21st century: Iran’s right to defend itself
Earth is the playground of our children and their children. We cannot allow it to be the playground of the nuclear arms of the evil forces. A nuclear-weapons-free world is the highest gift of humanity to the next generation. (Amit Ray, Indian author and spiritualist) The international nuclear order is…
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Host, bully, hypocrite: The US’s shameful gatekeeping of the UN
The United States is once again demonstrating that it is unfit to serve as host of the United Nations Headquarters. Reports that Washington may deny a visa to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for an upcoming UN encounter evoke bitter memories of 1988, when Yasser Arafat was prevented from entering…
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Recognition without justice: Why Palestine needs sanctions, not symbolic gestures
For decades, Palestine has been recognised as a state by the majority of the international community. One hundred and forty-three countries have granted it diplomatic recognition — a figure that should, on the surface, represent an unassailable consensus on the Palestinian right to self-determination. Yet Gaza remains under suffocating blockade,…
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India’s unholy alliance with Israel and the death of solidarity
“Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” was India’s grand slogan during its G20 presidency – the world is one family. But what does this philosophy mean when we actively arm a state committing genocide? When we criminalize peaceful protest against war crimes? When our government offers unwavering diplomatic support to a regime that bombs…
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India’s moral abdication: From global justice to geopolitical desert
The world watches in horror as Gaza endures an unfolding catastrophe, a brutal assault that bears all the hallmarks of a genocide. Yet, amidst the global outcry, a once-staunch champion of the oppressed remains chillingly silent, its voice muffled by the clinking of arms deals and the whispered promises of…
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Iran is pluralistic within its self-drawn parameters: Western imaging and myths falsify the reality
Western narratives often paint Iran as a monolithic theocracy, intolerant of diversity and locked in ideological rigidity. Iran’s political system in certainly not a western-style democracy. Regular elections are organized and there is a degree of competition over policies. It might have deficits just like western democracies which are increasingly…