U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Syrians and Are a Human Rights Violation

U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Syrians and Are a Human Rights Violation

About 12 million Syrians are facing a deadly winter without heating fuel, gasoline for transportation, and dark houses each evening. Damascus is now bitterly cold and is soon to be blanketed with snow. About 12 million Syrians are facing a deadly winter without heating fuel, gasoline for transportation, and dark houses each evening without electricity….

The Nakba Day Triumph: How the UN Is Correcting a Historical Wrong

The Nakba Day Triumph: How the UN Is Correcting a Historical Wrong

The next Nakba Day will be officially commemorated by the United Nations General Assembly on May 15, 2023. The decision by the world’s largest democratic institution is significant, if not a game changer. For nearly 75 years, the Palestinian Nakba, the ‘Catastrophe’ wrought by the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist militias in 1947-48, has…

Fact Check Ukraine

Fact Check Ukraine

Let’s take Kherson and FTX as two examples of NATO’s censorship of the hard and soft wars over Ukraine. Let’s take Kherson and FTX as two examples of NATO’s censorship of the hard and soft wars over Ukraine. British and Irish state controlled media have shown hours of smiling citizens greeting their Ukrainian liberators in…

Settler Pogroms Against Palestinians Will Become the Norm Under New Israeli Government

Settler Pogroms Against Palestinians Will Become the Norm Under New Israeli Government

Saturday, November 19, 2022, was according to Jewish tradition Shabat Chayei Sarah – the Shabbos, or Saturday commemorating the death and burial of the biblical matriarch Sarah. In the biblical story, her husband Abraham purchased her burial plot in the ancient city of Al-Khalil. According to Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, the “commemoration” events that Al-Khalil has…

Palestinians are Native Americans: It’s Time to Correct the Language of History

Palestinians are Native Americans: It’s Time to Correct the Language of History

At a recent Istanbul conference that brought many Palestinian scholars and activists together to discuss the search for a common narrative on Palestine, a Palestinian member of the audience declared at the end of a brief, but fiery intervention, ‘we are not red Indians’. The reference was a relatively old one. It was attributed to…