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…
Through the eyes of the people
Last August, Palestinians commemorated the three-year anniversary of the end of Israel’s devastating war against the Gaza Strip. The war had killed over 2,200 Palestinians – the vast majority among…
Failure to investigate
Israel is an Occupying Power under international law and is held accountable to the Fourth Geneva Convention. The international community is legally obliged to examine Israel’s conduct against Palestinian civilians…
Denied land access, Palestinians miss olive harvest
Abbas Yusef points wistfully towards his olive trees, which are bearing their annual fruit. Yet again, the 70-year-old Palestinian farmer will be unable to make the autumn harvest. Yusef's olive…
Israel’s suicidal act
Last week, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) charged Israel for its latest invasion of Gaza calling its aerial bombing of civilian areas "disproportionate and indiscriminate"; by July 22, the…
Israel’s war on Gaza
Israel’s brutal war on Gaza has left over 1,000 Palestinians dead and more than 6,000 wounded with the death toll still rising. Hospitals, schools, mosques, homes, apartment blocks and even…
Where’s the Gaza outrage in Pakistan?
Bigger rallies have been held in London against the Israeli assault on Gaza than anything we are likely to see here. This is a mirror copy of what happened during…
Malala, Boko Haram and Gaza
I went to pick up my three-year-old from her summer school for the first time. She is yet to begin kindergarten but her mother decided to put her in a…
Friday prayers in Al Aqsa
As I approach the gate, I see a group of Israeli soldiers behind a metal barricade. They are intently looking at everyone. Fully armed, they wave the young to one…
