This year, Arab-American political power came to the fore
One of the major political developments in the United States that has gotten little attention in the wake of the Democrats’ ...
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Israel and the ICC: A legal scholar’s response to The Washington Post
On November 24, The Washington Post’s editorial board published a piece in which it laid out its views on the arrest ...
Loving it: Populist on populist violence
I don’t know about you, but, recently, I have enjoyed watching an entertaining spasm of populist-on-populist violence. Perhaps “violence” is ...
It’s time to tax fossil fuels and shipped goods to fund climate resilience
A few days after the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku concluded, I reflected on the consequences of Hurricane Beryl ...
I am starving in Gaza and I don’t believe the world can’t do anything
For over a year now, my family and I have been displaced from northern Gaza to Deir el-Balah in the ...
Apartheid economy continues to haunt South Africa
On November 3, Lesedi Mulaudzi, a 10-year-old girl from Alexandra, a sprawling township in Johannesburg, South Africa, passed away from suspected ...
The West, the ICC, and ‘mtu wetu’ in Israel
The arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, issued by the International Criminal ...
The IMF and the World Bank must be abolished to save the planet
As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate ...
Israel and its supporters cannot gaslight the law
It was expected that the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ...
In Gaza dreams die, but hope remains
“I can’t keep calm. I’ve been chosen for Chevening.” It’s a little blue poster that Chevening awardees like to be ...
Afghanistan: Caught between climate change and global indifference
The world is facing a climate crisis, and few nations are feeling its impact more acutely than Afghanistan. It is ...
Excluding faith: US deny imprisoned Dr Aafia Siddiqui visits from an imam
We have recently – imam and lawyer – joined forces, along with so many unsung heroes, to demand respect for ...
The pogrom that wasn’t
On November 6 and 7, fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv rampaged through Amsterdam ahead of a ...
Facing genocide while disabled
The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event. More than 400 days of Israeli air strikes and constant ground ...
Access to climate education is a matter of justice
In his poem The Right to Dream (1995), Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano imagines “how the world will be in 2025”. ...
Lebanese Australians reminded of past wars as Israel attacks Lebanon again
Melbourne, Australia – Israel’s devastating bombing of Lebanon has reverberated around the world, reaching as far as the suburbs of ...
Democrats, next time try fighting for the working class
A week before the election, my dad was visiting and talked to me about his gut feeling that former President ...
Zambia’s Kariba Dam crisis is one of inequality
As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern ...
Project Esther: A Trumpian blueprint to crush anticolonial resistance
Donald Trump’s re-election as president of the United States marks a shift in US policy – from the Joe Biden ...
The Gaza genocide may not be in the news, but it hasn’t stopped
“All the world is a stage,” Shakespeare wrote. But on this stage today, there seems to be no place for ...
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