By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Judging by this week’s close vote on combating Islamophobia, and sensational revelations by a major US Muslim group, President Joe Biden’s attempt to move the US into a new period of history and exit the post-9/11 era while remaining, just about, the sole superpower, […]
No Steady Electricity, Little Potable Water – Palestinian Gaza under Israeli Occupation is a Place of Slow Death
By Rasheed Hassan | – Without explanation or premise, I must stress that the situation in the Gaza Strip is no longer bearable; that our two million people there have lost the ability to tolerate their plight and have patience; and that the resistance factions are no longer able to maintain the truce on the […]
The perils of the digital age: How Facebook failed to protect Persecuted Rohingya Muslims
By Elif Selin Calik | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Rohingya refugees and victims are suing Facebook for $150 billion. They allege that Facebook played a key role in the brutal crackdown against Muslims in Myanmar by promoting anti-Rohingya posts. This online hate turned into real-world violence, according to the lawsuit. As stated […]
It was Israel, not Iran, that Derailed the 2015 Nuclear Agreement, and Bennett is still working against it
By Nasim Ahmed | – World leaders have been trying desperately to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+ countries: the US, Britain, China, Russia, France and Germany. The seventh round of talks in Vienna ended on Friday with very little to suggest that the main […]
The End of Democracy’s Fourth Wave? The New Authoritarians in the Mideast and Eastern Europe
By Amr Hamzawy | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Governments are described as authoritarian when they do not grant people the right to choose them freely and change them freely through periodic and fair elections when they prevent the free circulation of information and refrain from being transparent in their management of public affairs, […]
Even Israel’s Labor Party President signals that the Occupation of Palestinians in Permanent
By Ashraf Al-Ajrami | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog chose to celebrate the Jewish Hanukkah holiday — the “Festival of Lights” — at the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Hebron, accompanied by a group of settler leaders. “The historical affinity of the Jewish people to Hebron, to the Cave of the […]
No, Opposing Israeli Apartheid Policies is not anti-Semitism, and Most Universities are rejecting IHRA Propaganda Ploy
On the first of October, the University of Bristol fired Professor David Miller, a world renowned expert on the Israel lobby, the Zionist movement and Islamophobia. They did not give an explicit reason for the sacking, claiming only that Miller “did not meet the standards of behaviour we expect from our staff.” But it is […]
How Israel is Isolating East Jerusalem from the West Bank to Block a Viable Palestinian State
By Ali Abu Hableh | – ( Middle East Monitor) – The Israeli coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid has set its sights on accelerating the implementation of the “Greater Jerusalem” project, which covers ten per cent of the area of the occupied West Bank and cuts it in two. The intention […]
74 Years ago, the UN General Assembly overstepped and stole the Palestinians’ Country from Them
By Sayid Marcos Tenório | – On 29 November, 1947, the newly-created United Nations (UN) approved the Palestine Partition Plan and started the Nakba process. Nakba, meaning “catastrophe”, is an Arabic word used to describe the tragedy that followed, and is still ongoing. The infamous partition made Palestine the only state destroyed with the support […]
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