A summit of inaction
THE much-touted emergency summit in Doha of leaders of Arab-Islamic countries ended with a whimper. The joint statement is strong on rhetoric but weak on concrete action...
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World must step forward to stop Israeli genocide against Palestinians: Tarique
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman has called upon the international community to take immediate and decisive action against what he terms Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza...
UN says Israel committing 鈥榞enocide鈥� in Gaza
United Nations investigators on Tuesday accused Israel of committing 鈥榞enocide鈥� in Gaza in a bid to 鈥榙estroy the Palestinians鈥�, blaming Israel鈥檚 prime minister and other top officials for incitement.
Spain, Israel spar over Gaza genocide move
Israel on Monday accused Spain of antisemitism and barred two government ministers from entry after Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez announced measures aimed at stopping what he called 鈥榯he genocide in Gaza鈥�.
How to stop Israel starving Gaza
ISRAEL, with US complicity, is committing genocide in Gaza through the mass starvation of the population as well as direct mass murders and the physical destruction of Gaza鈥檚 infrastructure...
Western media dehumanised Gaza people: Montaser
Al Jazeera鈥檚 media initiatives manager Montaser Marai on Friday said the western mainstream media dehumanised Gaza peoples who were killed in genocide by Israel.
Liberals paved way to the far right
SAMAR Abu Elouf, who won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year for the picture below, posted on her Instagram account that her son鈥檚 close friend Sami Shukour had been killed while he 鈥榳ent to look for flour to feed himself and his family.鈥�...
Bangladesh鈥檚 experience as host
THE world is observing the 8th Rohingya Genocide Remembrance this year to honour the genocide against the Rohingyas that occurred in Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine State. The Rohingya crisis, often considered one of the most pressing humanitarian challenges of the 21st century, has attracted global attention to the plight of the Rohingya people in Bangladesh. Beginning in...
Famine in Gaza: no middle ground on genocide
ISRAEL war of genocide is not about October 7; it is not about freeing Israeli captives. It is, first and foremost, about preserving a racist Jewish governing coalition and seizing a historic opportunity while a submissive administration in Washington looks the other way. The aim is to advance a biblical expansionist project and create the conditions for 鈥榮elf鈥� ethnic cleansing...
A day of reflection and uncertainty
MYANMAR鈥橲 military campaign caused more than 700,000 Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh, beginning this day eight years ago.聽 The Rohingyas, the most persecuted ethnic community that time and its defenders the world over observes Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day today, making it a occasion for reflections on the horrors, the need for justice and accountability...
The West鈥檚 calculations and Gaza鈥檚 betrayal
THE Israeli human rights organization B鈥橳selem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide...
Police reform, accountability still deplorably elusive
THIS is concerning and a disservice to the spirit of the July uprising that a section of police personnel is still involved in criminal and corrupt activities. The involvement of police personnel in crimes such as extortion, bribery, intimidation and framing innocent people in false cases has continued to make the headlines every other day. The agency is also reported to have taken...
Genocidal starvation in Palestine
WEAPONISATION of starvation is going on in Palestine to evict the remaining population to make more room for Israeli settlers. The unlawful transformation of Palestinians into refugees raises questions about the legitimacy of the genocidal starvation. This is a violation of the basic human right to access food. Palestinians are perishing silently, and their resistance...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and genocide
AS THE Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years since the August 6 and August 9 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us consider what are the implications of remembering the nuclear genocide in this present moment of technogenocide in Gaza...
Building power for Palestine, a new world order
A COALITION of cross-regional states met in Bogot谩, Colombia in mid-July to discuss measures to disrupt Israel鈥檚 genocide of Palestinians. The subsequent commitments by some of those governments to end all material support to Israel and to uphold international law is an important development not just to end the genocide, but to counter the relentless militarism...
US-Israel genocidal partnership
FOR decades, countless US officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that bind are laced with genocide. The two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza, with both societies directly, and differently, making it all possible...
Urgent call to confront genocide in Gaza
THE bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilov谩, Memorial to the Children Victims of the War, depicting the 82 children of Lidice murdered at Che艂mno in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the Nazi-led Lidice massacre. In reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis razed the village of Lidice, executed its men, and deported its women and children to death camps...
Israel鈥檚 genocide is big business
THE Financial Times revealed this month that a cabal of Israeli investors, one of the world鈥檚 top business consulting groups and a think-tank headed by former British prime minister Tony Blair had been secretly working on plans to exploit the ruins of Gaza as prime real estate...
Israel鈥檚 enduring pursuit of Palestinian disunity
ISRAEL is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine鈥檚 future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the 鈥榙ay after鈥� its genocide in Gaza...
The 鈥榚conomy of genocide鈥� report: reckoning beyond rhetoric
FRANCESCA Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine, stands as a testament to the notion of speaking truth to power. This 鈥榩ower鈥� is not solely embodied by Israel or even the United States, but by an international community whose collective relevance has tragically failed to stem the ongoing genocide in Gaza...
UN expert says firms 鈥榩rofiting鈥� from 鈥榞enocide鈥� of Palestinians
UN rights expert Francesca Albanese on Thursday denounced companies she said 鈥榩rofited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide鈥�, in a report that provoked a furious response from Israel.
Profiting from genocide
WAR is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc., Amazon, International Business Machine Corporation, Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corporation and...
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel鈥檚 鈥榞enocide鈥�
The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has released a report on corporations aiding Israel in carrying out its genocidal war on Gaza and displacing Palestinians, in breach of international law, reports Aljazeera...
Gaza war lucrative for many: UN report
Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza continues because it is lucrative for many big corporations, according to a new report released by聽 United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights, Francesca Albanese, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Francesca Albanese, reports Al Jazeera.
Gaza鈥檚 hunger games
ISRAEL鈥橲 weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of General Efra铆n R铆os Montt, the famine in southern Sudan that left a quarter of a million dead 鈥� I walked past the frail and skeletal corpses of families lining roadsides 鈥� and later...
Spain PM alleges 鈥榞enocide鈥� in Gaza as 56 more killed
Spain鈥檚 prime minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday became the most prominent European leader to describe the situation in Gaza as a 鈥榞enocide鈥�, as rescuers in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory said Israeli forces killed 56 people...
From livestream genocide in Gaza to war on Iran
THE Orwellian G7 statement described Israel鈥檚 military attacks on Iran as 鈥榮elf鈥慸efence.鈥� By twisting language to fit political ends, the communiqu茅 normalises aggression and offers diplomatic cover for Israel鈥檚 serial violations of international law. Rather than condemning Israeli dangerous escalation, the G7 resorts to vague calls for 鈥榙e-escalation,鈥� effectively...
Last days of Gaza
THIS is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are camped out amongst the rubble or in the open air. Dozens are killed and wounded daily from Israeli shells, missiles, drones, bombs and bullets...
Release of activists, end to genocide, occupation in Palestine demanded
Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee, a Bangladeshi platform working for democratic rights of people, on Tuesday demanded an immediate release of kidnapped activists and an end to genocide and occupation in Palestine by Israeli forces...
Faruque era ends at BCB as NSC terminates nomination
The National Sports Council on Thursday has terminated the nomination of Faruque Ahmed in the Bangladesh Cricket Board in the director category, a move that effectively ended Faruque鈥檚 tenure as the president of the board.