GAZA does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides 鈥� in India, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America 鈥� are returning to their roots as they face a global climate crisis and the obscene levels of social inequality that they engineer and sustain...
IN DECEMBER 2022, Israeli ministry of energy launched the Fourth Offshore Bid Round offering new exploration licenses...
Cultural activists on Tuesday staged a demonstration in Dhaka condemning Israeli genocide in Gaza...
FOLLOWING the revolt of the besieged against their jailors on October 7, 2023, the Zionist hasbara machine mobilized across the world to impose a false narrative. Its goal was clear: erase history, distort reality and present Israel as the eternal victim. According to this framing, Israel was a peaceful entity blindsided by an unprovoked attack that supposedly emerged out of nowhere...
IT HAS been two years since Israel unleashed its brutal campaign of systematic destruction in Gaza that has laid waste houses, hospitals, schools and the entire community. Gaza has virtually become a graveyard for a people. One must look beyond the Hamas offensive of October 7, 2023 to understand the ongoing genocide. That date did not emerge from a vacuum. It was the...
OCTOBER 7 will mark the second anniversary of Israel鈥檚 ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation鈥檚 data page on Palestinian casualties, regularly updated using figures from the Palestinian health ministry and UN agencies, shows that around 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the last two years 鈥� 30 out of every 1,000 people who were...
EVERY day brings new indictments for Israel. The early accusations of genocide by South Africa are now quickly becoming an accepted legal definition among international bodies and governments alike. The latest indictment came from the United Nations Human Rights Council...
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...
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...
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.
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�.
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...
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.
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�...
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...
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...
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 Israeli human rights organization B鈥橳selem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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.
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...
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...
