Opinion

Attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by Israeli occupation forces and extremist Jewish settlers have increased sharply. Too many of the attacks have been deadly. In the...

On 1 December, Netflix began streaming Farha (2021) worldwide, despite immense pressure directed at the platform to prevent its debut. The film is director Darin J. Sallam's first full-length...

Readers of my columns will know that I've never been a big fan of the United Nations because of its sheer inability to hold too many of the world's...

Jordan Peterson has long been a controversial figure, subject to attempts to suppress him from various sides. Much of that controversy is not wholly negative: his stand against Canada's...

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has been tumultuous, to say the least. Twitter Verification has been rolled out and everyone interested in the service can pay $8 a month...

The Israeli government is portraying itself as being worried about international delegitimisation at the UN. As the UN General Assembly Fourth Committee on Decolonisation passed the resolution "Israeli practices...

Qatari security stopped two British football fans and asked them not to enter Al Bayt Stadium to watch the game between Team USA and their country's national team because...

Azerbaijan's announcement that it's going to open an embassy in Israel came as no surprise. It reflects the strong ties between the two countries for nearly three decades in...

In April last year, Israel reeled and railed against a Human Rights Watch report in which the Zionist State was revealed to be committing the crimes of apartheid and...

The European Union (EU) is supposed to have a common regional policy, particularly in relation to its immediate neighbourhood, which includes the entire North African region. Such a policy...

I am not a football fan, but I have been watching the FIFA World Cup in Qatar with extreme joy, unmatched by anything else in this sad time for...

I am neither a football fan nor a follower of the sport. Rather, I am critical of the unimaginable extravagance that the game has spawned, not least the salaries...

As Qatar makes history as the first Muslim country to host the FIFA World Cup, the language of Western media outlets about the tournament is being criticised as racist,...

"August, September, October, November." Ghafra Faraj is recalling how many times she applied to the Israeli authorities for a permit so she could leave Gaza and travel to East...

The International Federation of Football Associations, FIFA, is a flawed governing body which has chosen to ignore a whole raft of corruption allegations — all denied — that it...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process continues to speak from a vacuum that denies Israel's colonial existence as the main violation Palestinians encounter daily. In...

British comedian, David Baddiel, is right about one thing: Jews are not "collectively responsible" for the policy and behaviour of the State of Israel, but he is complaining about...

This year, 25 November marked the first day of the sixteen days of activism to end violence against women and girls. The final day will coincide with International Human...

The position expressed by most members of the European Parliament regarding the recent developments in the conflict between the Greek government and the Government of National Unity (GNU) headed...

Why is anyone surprised that Israeli Prime Minister-in-waiting Benjamin Netanyahu has been courting right-wing extremists in his bid to cobble together a coalition government? His track record in this...

As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to...

Tensions are set to rise between the US and Iran, not only in the political realm but also on the football pitch ahead of tomorrow's much-anticipated encounter at the...

Everyone seems to be eating, breathing and sleeping football during the FIFA World Cup being held in Qatar. It dominates conversations in Arab countries. With everyone's mind on football,...

The US' destructive wars on Muslim countries launched in the wake of 9/11 under the misplaced rubric known notoriously as the "War on Terror" spawned senseless deaths and bloodshed...

There are countless stereotypes and tropes found throughout popular culture, movie productions and social media. One of those is that of undercover police or intelligence agents who famously tend...

For three decades, world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions and greener energy sources. This year, COP27 finished with an...

The repeated Israeli raids on the sites of the Syrian regime and its allies across Syria seem like a secondary chapter complementing the continuous crimes that have been ongoing...

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has asked Likud voters a series of questions related to the current impasse into which Benjamin Netanyahu, who is tasked with forming a...

The duty of releasing and freeing the oppressed Palestinian prisoners detained in the Occupation prisons is not limited to the executive level of the Palestinian Resistance, as the level...

Further proof of US President Joe Biden reneging on his electoral promises with regard to Palestine is the ongoing refusal to reopen the US Consulate in occupied Jerusalem for...

On 17, November, a plane carrying Greece's Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, landed in Mitiga International Airport, in Tripoli, but the visitor refused to disembark once he was told that...

The Russian military setback that took place recently in Kherson, after the Russian President had annexed it to his country weeks ago, is in fact a strategic military setback...