London (Special to Informed Comment) – World leaders rushed to congratulate US President-elect Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris for their victory in a nail-bitingly tense election. Many Arab leaders including Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and figureheads in other countries such as Oman, Jordan, Lebanon […]
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Middle East
To what extent did the spycops target Palestine solidarity groups?
( Middle East Monitor) – This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry [in Britain] finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was first formally announced by then Home Secretary Theresa May. The inquiry is investigating the deployment of undercover police officers […]
With Reporters Distracted by US Polls, Israel Demolishes 76 Bedouin Palestinian Homes
( Middle East Monitor) – UN intransigence over Israel contrasts with Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk’s observations regarding Israel’s ongoing settlement expansion, not least because the latter boosts his arguments by providing some colonial context instead of remaining tethered to the two-state compromise. Following the recent announcement that plans for approximately 5,000 new settlement dwellings have […]
The Political Goal of Israeli systemic anti-Palestinian Racism
( Middle East Monitor ) – The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed, the latest addition to Israel’s Basic Law is a mere start of a new government-espoused agenda that is designed to […]
How will the US election Change the Mideast?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Joe Biden wins the presidency and the Democrats sweep to power in both houses of Congress, it will have a huge impact on domestic policies, on everything from health care to workers’ rights to green energy. But the impact on foreign policy would be equally significant. The biggest foreign […]
In Turkey, life for Syrian refugees and Kurds is becoming increasingly violent
By Yasin Duman | – A spate of attacks in Turkey on Syrian refugees and Kurdish internal migrants and displaced people in recent months have put both communities on edge. In July, a Syrian teenager working as a market seller in Bursa, northwestern Turkey, died after he was attacked by a group of men. Another […]
Hunger strikes highlight Israel’s unjust detention of political prisoners
( Middle East Monitor ) – Calling for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. The latest detainee to go on hunger strike protesting against the administrative detention order that keeps him in prison indefinitely with neither formal charges nor trial is Maher Al-Akhras. His protest has […]
Can Palestinians win over Israelis disillusioned with Right Wing Zionism?
By Hamada Fara’na ( Middle East Monitor) – Amira Hass is a courageous Israeli journalist who defends the Palestinian people relentlessly and without hesitation. She writes about the rights of Palestinians and exposes the actions and racism of Israel’s occupation. In Haaretz recently, she wrote about a 19-year-old Israeli woman, Hallel Rabin, who refused to […]
Are Trump’s Arab-Israeli “Peace Deals” fuelling a New Mideast Arms Race?
By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Giving up its decades-old position against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Sudan has agreed to normalise relations with the Zionist state. Tellingly, this was announced by US President Donald Trump on Friday at the White House. He is, of course, seeking a second term […]
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