Gaza Holocaust
Nine months is the length of time it takes for life to begin. In Gaza, it has become the measure of time for life to end. Since October, more than…
Teaching Holocaust
SO, the Holocaust is to be taught in school in the UAE. Why not? After all, ignoring the calamities of the blood-drenched post-Balfour Declaration era, Jews and Arabs have throughout…
The Palestinian Holocaust
Leading global powers – aka Israel’s sponsors: the US, UK, EU, Canada – who are also the self-proclaimed champions of universal values and who Netanyahu described as “forces of civilisation”,…
Lessons from the nuclear holocaust
This month of the year should prompt us into some sombre reflection, particularly in light of recent events and tragedies. On August 6, 1945, the US stunned the world by…
The Holocaust, genocide and Turkey
Recently the German Parliament passed a resolution branding the deaths of Armenians in Turkey in 1915 as genocide. Slowly but surely, all the European countries have picked up a stick…
Nuclear holocaust
Let there be no doubt that the nuclear establishments of Pakistan and India are on the verge of a nuclear holocaust. Both countries have been following the strategy of ‘mutual…
Bondi bloodbath
GENOCIDE eventually emerged as a broadly acceptable descriptor of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip after more than a year of relentless violence entailing tens of thousands of fatalities. It’s…
Unravelling order
The catastrophic violence in Gaza has unfolded within an international system that was never designed to restrain the geopolitical ambitions of powerful states. Understanding why the United Nations has proved…
Under threat
I grew up less than a mile from Shepherds’ Field in Beit Sahour in the occupied West Bank – the hillside where, according to the Gospel of Luke, the news…
Censorship rules
Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that deny them basic political rights, including the right…
