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Conflicting futures in Palestine

The politics of Palestine can be viewed through many different lenses – religious, political, historical, etc. As a rather typical product of the Pakistani school system, my knowledge of the…

Support for Palestine

The Balfour Declaration signed at the end of the First World War on November 2, 1917 surprisingly allowed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. This was a big…

United For Palestine

United for Palestine

A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole new…

Embracing Palestine

Embracing Palestine

At a talk I delivered in Northern England in March 2018, I proposed that the best response to falsified accusations of antisemitism, which are often lobbed against pro-Palestinian communities and…

The Real Issue

The real issue

The right of the people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law. The concept evolved as a by-product of the doctrine of nationalism. It found expression in…

Palestine’s Christians

Palestine’s Christians

Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine and…

Polluting Palestine

Polluting Palestine

Gaza’s growing humanitarian crisis is finally registering in Israel as a pressing problem requiring “clear and immediate” action. However, it is not the impact of the crisis on the population…

Golan and Palestine

The divided Arab leaders of the 22-country Arab League (AL) met in Tunis on March 31, 2019 to paper over the cracks in its membership and condemn unanimously the US…

Ethnic Cleansing In Palestine

Ethnic cleansing in Palestine

According to the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an Israeli NGO, the Israeli government has demolished 28,000 Palestinian structures since the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in…

The OIC And Palestine

The OIC and Palestine

The Organization of Muslim Cooperation (OIC) has so far miserably failed to liberate the long-persecuted Palestinians from the yoke of imperial Israel. The organisation of the divided Muslim countries has…