Middle East 4 ChangeIran nuclear deal: yet another failure
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Yassamine Mather The saga of the Iran nuclear deal continued last week – this time with a change of venue. After the failure of weeks of negotiations in…
Zionism: Messianic colonialism
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Moshé Machover Recently I was watching live news from Jerusalem, which exemplified in a frightening way the subject of this article[1]This article is based on the talk given…
Behind Israeli apartheid
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it Amnesty…
From Tantura to Naqab: Israel’s Long Hidden Truths are Finally Revealed
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Ramzy Baroud A succession of events in recent weeks all point to the inescapable fact that nearly 75 years of Israel’s painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the truth…
Iran nuclear deal and Israel’s factory of falshood
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Moshé Machover At the time of writing, the outcome of the Vienna talks about restoring the Iran nuclear deal – the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA),…
West Bank: Israeli army fire teargas at Palestinians as settlers march on village
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Atef Daglas in Nablus, occupied Palestine The Palestinian village of Bruqa, north of the occupied West Bank, has been under constant Israeli settler attacks for almost a week. Close…
Tunnel Vision: Israel’s multidimensional warfare
Monday, December 20, 2021
Eyal Weizman Now that Gaza’s perimeter is completely sealed – by fences on land and the Israeli navy at sea – the axis of conflict has turned 90…
Iran nuclear deal: Sabotage, scientists, sanctions
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Soheil Behrang There are conflicting reports about the first round of negotiations between Iran’s Islamic Republic and the P5+1 – the United Nations security council’s five permanent members…
Israel and Iran Broaden Cyberwar to Attack Civilian Targets
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman Millions of ordinary people in Iran and Israel recently found themselves caught in the crossfire of a cyberwar between their countries. In Tehran,…
On Pgasus and Israel’s spyware industry
Friday, November 19, 2021
Edan Ring With the Covid infection rate soaring in spring last year, Naftali Bennett – Israel’s then defence minister, now its prime minister – came up with an…
Israel and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
Monday, June 28, 2021
Interview with Moshé Machover A two state solution never was viable it was always a deception, argues Moshé Machover Moshé Machover, born in Tel Aviv in 1936 is…
Ghosts in the Land
Friday, May 28, 2021
Adam Shatz on the war in Israel-Palestine On 21 May Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire after eleven days of fighting, but the days of ‘quiet’ – as the New…
Stench of Zionist colonialism
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Moshé Machover The Zionist colonisation regime spreads a nauseating stench – literally. I am referring to an Israeli invention, appropriately named ‘Skunk’ and described as a “non-lethal weapon…
Two Poems of Palestine by Rafeef Ziadeh
Monday, May 17, 2021
Her poem ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ – an impassioned attack on media misrepresentation of the Palestinian cause – went viral within days of its release. We teach life,…
Why Israel won’t win in Gaza
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Maureen Clare Murphy Palestinian armed groups made good on their threats to strike Tel Aviv with unprecedented fire after Israel leveled a residential tower in Gaza on Tuesday….
Without US Aid, Israel Wouldn’t Be Killing Palestinians En Masse
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Noam Chomsky and CJ Polychroniou Successive Israeli governments have been trying for years to push Palestinians out of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and the latest round of…
Israel and Medical apartheid
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Mouin Rabbani The Israeli defence minister, Benny Gantz, said on 25 February that Israel was suspending an initiative to provide nineteen countries with a hundred thousand surplus jabs…
THE ANGRY ARAB: Machinations in the Gulf
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
As`ad AbuKhalil Donald Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and now former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rushed to engineer various foreign policy initiatives in the very last stretch of…
Fearing the Palestinian Narrative: Why Israel Banned ‘Jenin Jenin’
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Ramzy Baroud On January 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mahmoud Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who…
The House of Zion
Monday, December 28, 2020
Perry Anderson Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel in the post-Cold War world—us…
Palestinian Workers in Israel Caught Between Indispensable and Disposable
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Lucy Garbett In Jerusalem under strict lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the abnormal quiet of the streets is disturbed by the familiar din of business-as-usual drilling and…
The Likud Conspiracy: Israel in the throes of a major political crisis
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Ramzy Baroud Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government’s mediocre response to the coronavirus…
‘Optimism of the Will’: Palestinian Freedom is Possible Now
Friday, July 24, 2020
Ramzy Baroud In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would…
Trump Authorized CIA To Wage Cyberwar On Iran And Others
Monday, July 20, 2020
Moon of Alabama Recently there have been a number of incidents in Iran where unexplained fires or explosion have destroyed some infrastructure: Since June, fires or explosions have…
Seeds of resistance: Palestinian farmers fight against annexation and pandemic
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Salena Fay Tramel It has not been an easy year for Palestinians, if there ever was such a thing. With the turn of a new decade in January,…
Victim of Zionist colonisation: Book Review
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Moshé Machover Rashid Khalidi ‘The hundred-years war on Palestine: a history of settler-colonial conquest and resistance’ Profile Books, 2020, pp336, £17.99 As part of their professional training, historians…
US imperialism, Zionist and the danger of war
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Mike Macnair, Moshé Machover, Yassamine Mather Crisis and need for conflict Mike Macnair What we are seeing today is a situation where the United States is lashing out…
Nakba: Why the Zionists expelled Palestine’s Arab population
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Thomas Vescovi In 1946, the population of Palestine numbered 1.2 million Arabs and around 600,000 Jews. There were more Arabs than Jews in 50 of Palestine’s 60 districts….
The Viral Emergency in Palestine
Saturday, April 25, 2020
S.C. Molavi and Eyal Weizman Over a dozen states, including Hungary, Ethiopia, Japan, Canada, and Botswana, have recently declared a “state of emergency” giving governments sweeping powers to…
Coronavirus: Global academia gets a taste of the Palestinian lockdown
Friday, April 17, 2020
Emile Badarin The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has obstructed the education of students globally. But this is hardly new to Palestinian students and academics, whose educational life…