GAZA is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean water. Little food. A severe shortage of medical services and hardly any habitable...
EARLIER on January 8, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and X (formerly Twitter) user post, 鈥楬as Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?鈥� The weird implications about a mythical anti-Semitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel...
JOE Biden鈥檚 parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but to eradicate, once and for all, Palestinians in Gaza and...
THE ongoing genocide in Gaza is not simply a human crisis. It is a tale of paradoxes 鈥� of black and white, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil. In Gaza, there is unspeakable cruelty facing incredible courage, ugly betrayals in the midst of relentless sacrifice, constant lies opposed by glaring truths, and the worst forms of oppression against limitless resilience...
THE story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomised in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for former Awami League lawmaker Muhammad Saiful Islam and four police officials in connection with crimes against humanity and genocide...
From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including forced conversion to Christianity...
The families of 22 victims of the 2009 carnage at then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor on Thursday accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her defense adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique, former army chief Moneen U Ahmed and 55 others of crimes against humanity and genocide...
THE ongoing war and genocide in Gaza is unprecedented. Nothing that Israel and its supporters can say or do will avoid the historical accountability of the extermination of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Israel of 鈥榗ommitting genocide鈥� against Palestinians in Gaza since the start of the war last year, saying its new report was a 鈥榳ake-up call鈥� for the international community.
THE paradoxical phrase, 鈥榬unning away forward鈥� is one of the most apt descriptions that illustrates the state of Israeli affairs now...
ARAB and Muslim American voters did not remove Democrats from office, nor did they cost Kamala Harris the Oval Office. They merely sent a strong message that Palestine matters, not only to Arabs and Muslims but to many Americans as well...
South Africa has filed 鈥榚vidence鈥� of a 鈥榞enocide鈥� committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip with the International Court of Justice, the office of president Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
Three new charges of genocide and crimes against humanity have been filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 151 of her associates, including high-ranking party officials and police officers...
Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Wednesday said the instigators of the genocide, committed during the student-people uprising, will be brought to book...
Seven new cases, including five on the charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, were filed on Sunday against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her...
Five more cases, including two on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, two on murder charges and one on attempt to murder, were filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides...
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Md Tajul Islam on Monday said that efforts were on to collect evidence of genocides those had been allegedly committed by past Awami League government while attempting to quell the recent anti-discrimination student movement...
THE interim government has decided to try the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the international crimes tribunal, accusing her of genocide and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising in July 1鈥揂ugust 5, along with all those involved in these crimes. The first complaint against her was made with the probe agency of the...
THE most significant recent escalation in the ongoing Zionist real estate project, enabled by apartheid and genocide of the Palestinian people, occurred on October 7, 2023, when Hamas fighters broke through Gaza鈥檚 prison fence, carrying out a bloody incursion on Israeli military installations and border towns. Since, the Israel 鈥楧efence鈥� Forces have...
Many former ministers and key police officials blamed for the mass killings during the student-people mass uprising remain traceless while many top Awami League leaders have been named in genocide and murder cases since the fall of the AL government...
Over a dozen more cases, including three on charge of genocide, were filed on Wednesday against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides, taking the number of cases filed against her to 44 since the fall of her government in a student-led uprising on August 5...
THERE is only one way to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is not through bilateral negotiations. Israel has amply demonstrated, including with the assassination of the lead Hamas negotiator, Ismail Haniyeh, that it has no interest in a permanent ceasefire...
WHILE many are earnestly pointing at the devastation of war, the rampant human rights violations and the deliberate relegation of international and humanitarian law, there are those who see war from an entirely different perspective: profits...
The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday started a probe into mass killing allegations against the deposed prime minister and Awami League president...
AT THE outset I want to beg your indulgence and forgive me for a somewhat misleading title, 鈥楾he Role of BDS in the Struggle for Palestine鈥�. A better title might have been 鈥楾he politics of BDS and the struggle for Palestine.鈥� What I want to do tonight is to go back to the basics, as it were, and think about how BDS fits into the long history of the struggle for self-determination in Palestine...
The Student Movement Against Discrimination on Monday demanded trial of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who resigned and fled to India on August 5, on genocide charges for...
WHY are many amongst us still tiptoeing around language when it comes to the horrific Israeli genocide in Gaza?..
WHILE the world often focuses on the political and military aspects of Gaza, the daily realities encountered by women are frequently overlooked. Women in Gaza bear heavy burdens, demonstrating remarkable resilience while navigating the harsh realities of Israel鈥檚 genocidal war...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called on the Muslim community to be united against the genocide in Gaza carried out by Israel...