Middle East 4 ChangeWar crimes
Friday, November 24, 2023
Conor Gearty International law takes a special interest in war. Where there is an armed conflict or an occupation it is not enough to hope vaguely that human…
Iran executed 114 people since Israel-Hamas war began: report
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Beatrice Farhat It seems Iran is taking advantage of the world focus on the Israel-Hamas war to carry out mass executions across its prisons. Rights groups are sounding…
Why is Israel bombing hospitals? It’s all ablout “winning”
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Neve Gordon Across Israel, huge billboards tower over central highways, while large placards have been placed in front of schools, supermarkets, and government buildings. They all feature a…
Israel Rabi describes settler rampages across West Bank
Friday, November 3, 2023
Jeremy Appel Rabbi Arik Ascherman delivered an Oct. 29 online lecture on settler violence in the West Bank to Reform Jews in Canada from outside a Jerusalem cell…
Violence in Palestine demands immediate resolution of its settler colonial root causes
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Editorial on BMJ Global Heath Upload pdf version The latest escalation of more than 100 years of violence in occupied Palestine has caused phenomenal levels of yet more…
Your Village
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Poem by Elena Bell Once in a village that is burning because a village is always somewhere burning And if you do not look because it is not your village it…
زنان و ستم چند گانه در نظام سرمایه داری
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Women and multiple repressions under the capitalist system Talk by Yassamine mather Talk given to Organisation of Iranian Women in Dallas USA, on the International Day for the…
Iranian forces shooting at faces and genitals of female protesters, medics say
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Deepa Parent and Ghoncheh Habibzadeh Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics…
Stymied by Protests, Iran Unleashes Its Wrath on Its Youth
Thursday, November 17, 2022
Farnaz Fassihi One girl, a 14-year-old, was incarcerated in an adult prison alongside drug offenders. A 16-year-old boy had his nose broken in detention after a beating by…
Protests in Iran: a unique experience with global significance
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Mehdi Kia The protest movement in Iran, now in its sixth week and with no end in sight, is in many ways unusual. Its ability to maintain almost…
What we mean by the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Ardeshir Mehrdad Woman, Life, Freedom (Zan, Zendegi Azadi) has become the main slogan of the uprising which began in September 2022 after the killing in custody of the…
Head of Iran’s morality police reportedly suspended amid protests
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Patrick Wintour, Weronika Strzyżyńska and agencies The head of Iran’s morality police has reportedly been suspended from his post as protests swept across Iran for a third day…
Europe’s efforts to hold Iranian officials accountable for their crime
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Hasti Aryana Rostami On July 14, a Swedish court convicted a former Iranian government official of war crimes, torture, and murder, sentencing him to life in prison for…
Protesters in Iran shout down cleric amid anger over building collapse
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Protesters angry over a building collapse in south-west Iran that killed at least 31 people shouted down an emissary sent by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, prompting…
Iran: Teachers protest over salary reform delays in more than 100 cities
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Thousands of teachers across Iran have taken to the streets in more than 100 cities to protest against a delay in salary and pension reforms, according to local…
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…
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…
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…
Honouring the victims of mass executions
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
On October 9 a group of Iranian revolutionaries, now mainly based in North America and Europe, organised an online meeting to commemorate the 1988 massacre of political prisoners….
Afghanistan’s Impoverished People Live Amid Enormous Riches
Sunday, October 3, 2021
Vijay Prashad On September 25, 2021, Afghanistan’s Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said that his government does not want “help and cooperation from the world like the…
Dispossession, proletarianization and the uprising of dispossessed Arabs in Iran’s Khuzestan province
Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Ardeshir Mehrdad Soon after the election of Raisi as new President of Iran with a historically low turnout, Iran faced a widespread wave of protests and strikes. The…
Vaccine nationalism and the Global South
Friday, August 27, 2021
Yanis Iqbal United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres tweeted on January 3: “Vaccine nationalism is not only unfair, it is self-defeating. No country will be safe … until all…
Iran accused of using ‘unlawful force’ against water protesters
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Middle East Eye staff Iran is using unlawful and excessive force in a crackdown against protests over water shortages in its oil-rich but arid southwestern Khuzestan province, international…
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,…
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…
‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe
Saturday, May 1, 2021
During a particularly polarising election campaign in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, waded into the fray to stir things up even…
The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
Monday, April 26, 2021
Vijay Prashad It is difficult to overstate the grip of COVID-19 on India. WhatsApp bristles with messages about this or that friend and family member with the virus,…
10 years of the Syrian conflict: a time to act and not merely to remember
Monday, April 12, 2021
Samer Jabbour, Jennifer Leaning, Iman Nuwayhid and others The health needs in Syria after 10 years of conflict are vast, ranking third after food and protection needs.22 There…