Great march
Friday 19 October marked the 30th consecutive weekly gathering of thousands of Palestinian women, men and children near the Gaza fence. These past six months of peaceful gatherings posed no…
The Palestinian spirit
In February – March 2017, I was part of a small Veterans For Peace delegation in Palestine. One of our last visits was to a village named Nabi Saleh, where…
Trumpet of War
For a President who proclaimed an anti-war stance to win the election President Trump is trying his level best to do otherwise. From bombing Afghanistan with the mother of all…
My Palestinian right of return is sacred
This is the story of four Palestinian peasants who have been dead and buried for many years, but whose legacy continues to define the collective aspirations of a whole nation.…
Gaza in 2018
B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has urged Israeli soldiers to refuse to fire at unarmed Palestinian protesters. Meanwhile, a new Jewish-Arab movement called Standing Together started working towards transforming…
Another Palestinian tragedy
The latest deaths of innocent Palestinian protesters, who had gathered along the Israel-Gaza border for the ‘Great Return March’, at the hands of Israeli forces is condemnable. Thousands of protesters,…
Soweto revisited
Countless people, in countless places, remember when South African policemen – turned willing executioners in service of a dying apartheid regime – shot and killed scores of unarmed black students…
Not a pretty picture
Where does the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region stand today? Syria, Yemen and Iraq are but the key flashpoints that continue to shape the conflict and instability gripping…
The genesis of violence
Not a day passes without a prominent Israeli politician or intellectual making an outrageous statement against Palestinians. Many of these statements tend to garner little attention or evoke rightly deserved…
A phantom legion
A current self-created crisis centres around Raheel Sharif’s post-retirement gig as supremo of the Islamic coalition created by Saudi Arabia. All hell broke loose when the government announced it had…
