Why I am rooting for Bisan Owda to win a news Emmy
Bisan Owda, a young Palestinian journalist, activist and filmmaker from Gaza, deserves the highest accolades for the excellent work she has done in the past 11 months to expose the…
Cheney’s policies as VP caused immense human suffering on a global scale
In an unsurprising yet telling development, Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney has thrown his support behind the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, over his party’s candidate, framing…
Do not ignore Mali’s multifaceted humanitarian catastrophe
“Each year, we witness a further drop in rainfall – which translates to a drop in produce – resulting in us not having enough food to consume, let alone sell,”…
Israel continues to kill Americans with impunity
Four days before the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer, as she was protesting the demolition of Palestinian…
What’s in a name? Resistance to genocide
Shakespeare left us the much-quoted adage about the relationship between things and names. In his tragedy Romeo and Juliet, his character Juliet complains that her family won’t accept her lover…
Israeli academia is directly complicit in the crimes of the state
“Politics should be kept out of academia!” This is how many in Western academia respond to calls from fellow professors and students for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions over…
The people of Gaza belong in Palestine – not Canada or DRC
It has been 11 months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The official death toll has exceeded 40,000 people but estimates put it much higher – in the hundreds of…
Mpox and the dangers of treating some lives as disposable
It has been a year since the first outbreak of a new more deadly variant of the mpox virus was first reported in central Africa. Since the start of the…
Scholasticide must not be normalised
On August 10, the Israeli bombardment of al-Tabin School in Gaza City killed more than 100 people sheltering there, including many children. This was one of 17 deadly attacks on…
Netanyahu and the Israeli protesters are on the same genocidal page
In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed 2,251 Palestinians, including 551 children – Danish…
In Gaza, Israel aims to destroy civil order, but it is failing
As the head of Gaza’s ambulance services, Hani al-Jaafarawi had one of the toughest jobs amid Israel’s genocidal war on the strip. Even before October 7, his staff were stretched…
The UK’s partial arms ban on Israel is not enough
On Monday, the British government halted 30 licences that would have allowed British companies to supply military parts to Israel. Those include components for fighter aircraft, helicopters, drones and items…