By Dov Waxman | ( The Conversation) – There is something Shakespearean about Benjamin Netanyahu’s downfall. As in a scene from “Julius Caesar,” who was assassinated by Roman senators, Netanyahu was deposed by his former underlings, the leaders of the three right-wing parties that have joined the new government – Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman and […]
Israel’s Netanyahu may be ousted but his hard-line foreign policies remain
By David Mednicoff | (The Conversation) – After two years of repeated and inconclusive Israeli elections, the advent of a new coalition government has ended the long era of Benjamin Netanyahu’s prime ministership. Yet he leaves a legacy of hawkish policies that will likely remain intact. As a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, I think […]
Uncovering anti-Blackness in the Arab world
By Amir Al-Azraki | – Black Arabs are underrepresented and largely invisible in “white” Arab-dominated countries, and excluded from political, academic, artistic and religious institutions. “Black” and “Arab” are not mutually exclusive: some Black people are Arab and some Arab people are Black. As an Arab intellectual in the West (I’m an Arabic language and […]
Historic change: Arab political parties are now legitimate partners in Israel’s politics and government
By Morad Elsana | – The next government is not going to be a typical one for the citizens of the state of Israel, and especially for members of the Palestinian Arab minority, who are 20% of Israel’s population. This is the first time the Zionist political parties forming the government are including an Arab […]
Why Iranians won’t vote: new survey reveals massive political disenchantment
By Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Ammar Maleki | – The Islamic Republic of Iran has never organised free and fair elections since its establishment in 1979. By definition, the combination of modern totalitarianism and Iran’s Islamic theocracy, with a supreme leader, cannot allow for more than a voting spectacle, rather than elections in the normal […]
Muslim family killed in truck terror attack: Islamophobic violence surfaces once again in North America
By Jasmin Zine | – A Pakistani-Canadian family out on a stroll on a warm weekend evening was murdered in a horrific act of Islamophobic violence in London, Ont. A nine-year-old boy, hospitalized with serious injuries, is the only survivor of a terror attack that killed his sister, father, mother and grandmother. How will he […]
Tasmania Reached 100% Net Carbon Zero; now it is going for 200%
By Rupert Posner and Simon Graham | – Getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and 100% renewable energy might seem the end game for climate action. But what if, like Tasmania, you’ve already ticked both those goals off your list? Net-zero means emissions are still being generated, but they’re offset by the same amount elsewhere. […]
What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare
By Andrea Duffy | – In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four hundred years later and a few hundred miles away in the former Ottoman territory of Syria, widespread protests escalated into a […]
Israel’s new government doesn’t give Palestinians much hope. It could be time for a radical approach
By Ian Parmeter | – Even by the standards of previous Israeli coalitions, the new government that’s just been announced includes strange bedfellows. The eight parties in the coalition range from the right-wing nationalist Yamina party to social-democratic Labor and left-wing Meretz. And for the first time in Israeli history, the coalition includes an Arab-Israeli […]
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