The Ethnic Cleansing of Masafer Yatta: Israel’s New Annexation Strategy in Palestine

The Ethnic Cleansing of Masafer Yatta: Israel’s New Annexation Strategy in Palestine

The Israeli Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta, located in the southern hills of Hebron, is to be entirely appropriated by the Israeli military and that a population of over 1,000 Palestinians is to be expelled. The Israeli Court decision, on May 4, was hardly shocking. Israel’s military occupation does…

Long Marginalized, the Right of Return is Once Again a Palestinian Priority

Long Marginalized, the Right of Return is Once Again a Palestinian Priority

The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That real peace requires compromises and sacrifices, therefore, the original sin that has led to the destruction of their historic homeland should be entirely removed from any…

Torture in Ukraine – Harrowing Testimony from Journalist Laurent Brayard

Torture in Ukraine – Harrowing Testimony from Journalist Laurent Brayard

Stratpol (pro-Russian media) recently interviewed Laurent Brayard, a French journalist and pro-Donbass activist who has been collecting testimonies of Ukraine’s prison survivors: militiamen, spies or innocent passerby, the stories he collected shed a new light on the historical roots of the ongoing conflict, and the methods used by Ukrainians since 2014. What is most horrifying…

Taught to Hate: Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Commence Annual Ramadan Blood-Spilling

Taught to Hate: Israeli Soldiers and Settlers Commence Annual Ramadan Blood-Spilling

We are barely halfway into the month of Ramadan and already the toll has gone beyond 20 Palestinians dead and countless wounded. Al-Aqsa mosque has been raided and the images of militarized Israeli police storming the mosque, beating and shooting indiscriminately at worshipers, demonstrate what was clear from the beginning: Israel wants this month to…

What’s Behind the US & India’s Dueling Human Rights Abuse Accusations?

What’s Behind the US & India’s Dueling Human Rights Abuse Accusations?

The US doesn’t sincerely care about human rights issues in India since all that it hopes to do is leverage them as part of its information warfare campaign against that country driven with the intent of putting pressure upon it as punishment for New Delhi’s principled neutrality towards Moscow. The US and India are trading…