Slaughter of journalists
Israel’s killing of at least 225 Palestinian journalists since 7 October 2023 briefly attracted international attention after it was calculated that more journalists have died in Gaza than in the…
Feed them words
FOR aeons, famine has been a feared word. Until, that is, the Israelis made famine a state policy, yet another weapon to be used against defenceless Palestinians. Few know that…
Killing the messengers
“I HAVE lived pain in all its details and I have tasted pain and loss repeatedly. Despite this, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion…
Iqbal’s humanism
SIR Muhammad Iqbal’s entire philosophical corpus underpins an ardent striving for humanism to build a better society. Iqbal steadfastly believes in human potential and supports a humane approach towards life.…
Bringing peace to Gaza?
On the occasion of the meeting of foreign ministers of the Muslim bloc held in Istanbul on November 3, Turkiye's foreign minister Hakan Fidan said, “Our principle is that Palestinians…
Erasure of history
Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the entire legacy of Israeli colonialism in Palestine and…
Mad for Mamdani
THE victory was not entirely unexpected but it was historic. For a while, the polls had shown that Zohran Mamdani, the immigrant Muslim of South Asian origin, was leading in…
The people’s verdict
In the face of the international legal and political systems’ paralyzing silence and utter failure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza, international civil society has refused to…
Make Israel Great Again
ON Oct 6, 2023, you could not have imagined a world in which Israel was as widely hated as it is today; its very name is now a byword for genocide,…
Taking the wheel
Has Donald Trump’s sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments immediately sparked two opposing views: for…
