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Attempting to pen down this article has become an exercise in perpetual frustration. Each effort to put pen to paper is violently interrupted by a relentless stream of new war crimes, each one more harrowing than the last. The ink has barely dried on one atrocity before another one is committed. As I write this, it has been 173 days of brutality and death visited upon Palestinians in Israel’s war on Gaza; 173 days of children butchered, women undergoing caesareans without anaesthetic to the melody of mass extermination, and men forced to undergo their own personal excavation of horrors as they...
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Like every year in our society that demands hollow acts of inclusion and representation, this year’s Ramadan was marked with the usual messages welcoming in the Holy Month from politicians and institutions who seem to forget Muslims exist for the other eleven months of the year. But this time, Number 10’s standard social media post was taken a step further as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited London Central Mosque (also known as Regent’s Park Mosque) in person on the first day of Ramadan. In footage filmed on the site of one of the UK’s most prominent mosques, Sunak can be seen shakin...
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Amid gruesome graphic images streaming out of Gaza for months, it seems something as rarefied and minute as a hyphen doesn’t matter. Who cares about punctuation when more than 32,000 Palestinians men, women, and children are being slaughtered by Israeli bombs, tanks, and snipers every day, not to mention lack of food, water, medicine, electricity, and the list goes on. Do we not have bigger things to worry about than language? We do, in fact, need to worry about words. This genocide comes at the tail-end of decades of a dehumanisation campaign that starts with words (witness Israeli politician...
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Since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip in October, a relentless series of violence against Palestinians has unfolded, sparing not even the dead bodies. Palestinians have become deliberate targets of a systematic policy of death by Israel, resulting in a staggering death toll surpassing 32,000 to date. Thepractice and logic of the elimination of Palestinian lives and bodies have been intrinsic to the Zionist settler colonial enterprise from its inception. However, since October, it has manifested in particularly overt forms. Despite the inflicted brutality, Palestinians continue to s...
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I went to one of the few functioning hospitals left in Gaza, The European Hospital in Khan Younis, as part of a medical mission with PAMA, Palestinian American Medical Association. As an anesthesiologist from the midwest, I knew that the situation in the hospitals were dire. Israel’s war, which has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians and injured at least 73,000, has collapsed Gaza’s healthcare system. That’s why when the organisation sent out a call for anesthesiologists and surgeons, I didn’t hesitate to apply. The hospital has 220 beds for patients. There were 30,000 living in and around th...
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Rival Libyan leaders recently announced that they have agreed on the necessity of forming a new unified government to oversee Libya's long-delayed elections. The elections in Libya, initially scheduled for December 2021, have been delayed indefinitely, due to disagreements about the electoral law and who should be allowed to stand in the polls. By delaying the elections, the dispute over the legitimacy of the current Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has heightened. The Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR) speaker, Aguila Saleh,argued that Dbeibah's mandate expired when the interim g...
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Earlier this month, 33 Metropolitan police officers who attended the scene of the Grenfell fire \- 27 currently employed and 6 former officers - are suing the force over their ‘trauma’ for personal injuries and losses, with some claiming they are too traumatised to work. This is not the first time emergency responders sue for trauma over the Grenfell fire. Just last month, a legal action by the Fire Brigades Union against London Fire Brigade was settled for £20 million with over 100 firefighters suffering personal injury and loss. The night of the fire that claimed 72 lives on 14 June 2017, fi...
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Since 7th October, the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza has thrown the world into turmoil, and has shaken the conscience of the international community. While the Western world's politicians shamelessly stand by Israel’s deadly war, the rest of the world has called out their double standards. Those most outraged at the mask of the Western world coming off are the people of the MENA region, who are all too familiar with this hypocrisy. Across the region, people launched a massive boycott movement against Israeli products, services, and companies funding the Israeli milita...
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On 6 December 2023, Israeli President Isaac Herzogexplained that, “This war is a war that is not only between Israel and Hamas. It’s a war that is intended, really, truly, to save Western civilisation, to save the values of Western civilisation.” Herzog’s dubious claim that Hamas is an existential threat to Western civilisation jettisons historical reality in favour of an impoverishing worldview that furthers sectarianism, feeds the imperial arrogance of the US, Europe, and Israel, and prolongs the 75-year-long occupation, ethnic cleansing, and destruction of Palestinian life. At its root is t...
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The British Museum’s former director, Hartwig Fischer, has approved the loan of the Cyrus Cylinder to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem from 4 October to 28 November 2024. Given the Cylinder’s history, its political misappropriations to which the Museum has previouslyobjected and Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian heritage, this loan at best acquires an ironic character and at worst endangers this invaluable artefact of Iranian and Iraqi heritage. The Museum must reconsider its decision to loan the Cylinder as it has done before. The Cylinder, excavated in Babylon in 1879...
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