Blogs – Politics

While Israel prefers to obliterate the 1948 Nakba from its historical memory despite being the perpetrator of Palestine's ethnic cleansing and colonisation, the same cannot be said for the...

Today marks the 13th anniversary of the massacre carried out by the Israeli occupation's naval forces against the Freedom Flotilla as it was on its way to break the...

As Israeli colonial violence resulted in the forced displacement of the 200 residents of Ein Samiyah in Area C of the Occupied West Bank, the range of reactions, from...

Turkiye's ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) scored a clear victory in both the presidential and parliamentary elections held on 14 May. It won a majority of the...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, recently made another appeal for funding, this time to the Arab League. "Support...

In 2019, when the Trump administration revealed the so-called "Deal of the Century", a hypothetical capital of Palestine in the town of Abu Dis was revealed as the alternative...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas never fails to blunder in his speeches. Speaking at the UN in New York on the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, Abbas requested...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has failed to secure victory in the first round of the Turkish presidential elections, after receiving 49.5 per cent of the votes. A second...

"The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its member states as a catastrophe or disaster is both appalling and repulsive," wrote Israel's UN...

The EU Delegation in Israel only has a problem with Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security, and not with the existence and continuation of Israel as a colonial...

Tunisia and Egypt are edging closer to major debt crises that could suck in a volatile North Africa region, and pose tough choices to wealthy Gulf Arab neighbours, investors and analysts...

The humanitarian paradigm for Palestinians is not working, the UN should be informed. On the assumption that the Institution holds a shard of respect towards human rights. For several...

The Palestinian Authority is decades behind in its political approach. Israel is not "continuing" to destroy the two-state paradigm – it has already destroyed it. Ramallah has learnt its...

Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails have suffered unprecedented levels of exploitation. At best, a hunger strike ends when Israel decides it can make a few concessions, and a...

On 29 April 2023 Your Excellency, You made a speech this week praising the establishment of Israel on its 75th anniversary. For someone in your position, it is surprising...

With no reference to the political turbulence that Israel is currently experiencing within its settler-colonial society, let alone the horrors perpetrated by Zionist terror groups during the 1948 Nakba...

To commemorate the 75th anniversary since the establishment of Israel's colonial enterprise, the National Library of Israel has embarked upon a new project themed "Operation Diary: the Founding Generation...

A conflict raging in Sudan is rattling neighbouring countries and worrying the United States and others for reasons ranging from concern about shared Nile waters and oil pipelines, to the...

Thousands of Sudanese have crossed into Chad to flee fighting in the western region of Darfur and thousands more streamed out of the capital, Khartoum, where renewed heavy gunfire erupted on...

On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, the Palestinian Authority (PA) stayed silent about its detention and torture of Palestinians in its prisons. The PA makes some prisoners more worthy of mention...

When Israel targeted Palestinian non-governmental rights organisations in 2021 and 2022, the Palestinian Authority embarked on its own exploitation campaign. "In a show of solidarity, President Abbas meets with...

Below is a timeline of Sudan's political upheavals in recent years: 19 December, 2018 – Hundreds protest in the northern city of Atbara against soaring bread prices. Demonstrations spurred...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been operating since 1 May 1950 under repeatedly renewed mandates in the absence of a political solution. In...

A major leak of top secret Pentagon documents shook the US and its allies on Monday, with the files providing a rare private peek into Washington's global policies. One...

The Council of Arab Ambassadors in Brazil condemned the Israeli occupation's attacks against Palestinians praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the continuous storming of the site by Israeli settlers...

Hopes to end nine devastating years of conflict are at an all-time high in Yemen since Sunday's talks between Iran-aligned Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, the main backer of...

The UN and its affiliated institutions have come up with various futile initiatives purportedly aimed at holding Israel accountable for its human rights violations. Agenda Item 7 is no...

After exactly two years of tension-easing talks that were marked by many ups and downs, the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia met in the Chinese capital, Beijing,...

Sweden's path to NATO membership remains blocked by Turkiye and Hungary as neighbour, Finland officially joined the 30-member alliance on Tuesday after its application was ratified in record time....

When the Palestinian Authority speaks about the "support" it receives from the international community it would do well to revisit the blatant hypocrisy at the UN Security Council briefing...

Saudi Arabia's unpredictable Crown Prince is pushing hard to realign Middle East dynamics, engaging with old foes and orchestrating OPEC oil cuts, like the ones on Sunday, which took...

Last month, Israel's National Security Minister, the far-right extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, sought to facilitate the process for Israeli civilians to obtain firearms, citing a rise in applications since 2022...