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Israel's occupation of Palestine and India's occupation of Kashmir are two blots on the international record. Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced millions more in what is now thelongest-continuous military occupation in modern history. Palestinians today suffer either a 17-year blockade, a brutal occupation, apartheid, or forced exile. As we speak, Israel carries out genocide in Gaza, with the population on the brink of famine. "One an expression of Western settler colonialism in the Middle East, the other a violent hangover of Britain’s Partition of India, the tw...
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As a British Muslim school teacher, I can't say I'm surprised about this week's court ruling. The decision to rule in favour of Michaela Community School’s banning of ‘prayer rituals’ – and its clear discrimination of Muslim students – is indicative of this country’s Muslim moral panic. In Britain, innocuous expressions of Muslim identity are now viewed as extreme and anti-British, including five minutes of private prayer at lunchtime. "Israel’s status as a Western ally and the last outpost of Western settler-colonialism in the Middle East has not only legitimised Islamophobia in the UK but ne...
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Exactly a year ago, my father Rached Ghannouchi, the speaker of Tunisia's elected parliament, was arrested at our home in Tunis, just as he was sitting down to break the Ramadan fast. The rule of law had already been eroded over the preceding year and a half since President Kais Saied's coup on July 25, 2021, when he unilaterally dissolved parliament, dismissed the government and gave himself near-absolute powers. After then suspending most of the constitution and ruling by decree, all that remained for Saied to do was to crush the opposition parties that refused to stand by while he dismantle...
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It is hard to imagine that anyone in the Levant or the broader Middle East managed to sleep on Saturday night, as Iran launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles toward strategic sites in Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Almost all of the drones and missiles were intercepted before reaching their targets, as a result of a coordinated effort by the United States, Israel, Jordan, and the United Kingdom. The trigger for Saturday’s attack was Israel’s bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1, which killed 13 people, including several high-ranking mem...
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The World Central Kitchen (WCK) followed every Israeli protocol to operate – and not be killed – in Gaza. The American-vetted and Israeli-approved NGO embedded its team with Western army veterans who closely coordinated with the Israeli military. Aerial images confirm WCK’s logo was emblazoned across their vehicles. Its founder, celebrity chef Jose Andres, even defended Israeli authorities from criticism in his native Spain. Yet this made no difference to Israel’s intended strike. Rather, it took the killing of seven foreign aid workers and their Palestinian driver for the world to wake up and...
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Disabling Palestinians in Gaza is a tactic and consequence of Israel’s war machine, rooted in Yitzhak Rabin’s "break their bones" directive from the First Intifada in 1988. Thirty-six years later, and six months into Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza, Israel continues to find new ways to cripple Gaza’s resolve. From the reported use of the R9X Hellfire missile on the Al Shifa Hospital courtyard — which shreds its victims — to the abuse of white phosphorus, Israel liberally employs new forms of sadism, leaving Gazans mourning the consequences. "Then as now, the Western order seems to be addicted ...
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Despite being 4000 kilometres away, the Moroccan city of Tangier on the shores of the Atlantic ocean and Amman, Jordan’s bustling capital, recently shared the spotlight under a single headline in the midst of Israel’s aggression on Gaza. On the first day of April, a video showing Moroccan protestors expressing solidarity with pro-Palestinian activists in Jordan went viral on social media, after the procession started chanting, “Tangier the brave salutes Jordan the chivalrous” while marching through the streets. A few days earlier in Cairo, activists had also gathered to show solidarity with th...
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Eid is upon us, marking the end of the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan. This is the month where the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), and considered the holiest in Islam. Muslims mark it by fasting during the day and praying during the night. In it, there is a sense of solidarity. Mosques gather those from all ethnicities to break fast and pray shoulder to shoulder. In between prayers, charity is raised for a common goal. This Ramadan, prayers have been dominated with asking for the alleviation of suffering in Gaza. Every mosque is raising charity for Gaza in so...
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Six months into Israel’s genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the apartheid regime has ruthlessly killed over 33,000 Palestinians, injured more than 70,000 others, and displaced and starved millions. Meanwhile, the repression of pro-Palestine solidarity in Germany, one of Israel’s most zealous backers, is increasingly focusing on anti-Zionist Jews. On 27 March, the Berlin-based organisation Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East, better known by its German shorthand Jüdische Stimme, announced that its bank account with the Berliner Sparkasse, the leading bank in the German capital, had been “f...
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After years of tireless advocacy by feminist activists and civil society to bring concrete changes to the Moroccan Family Code, known as the Moudawana, we were finally heard when King Mohammed VI ordered reforms within six months. It’s time. On 30th March, the commission in charge of the revisions officially handed them to Morocco’s Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch. This call for reforms didn’t come without noise. It has sparked a controversial debate, highlighting a significant societal split and a battle between progressive ideals and entrenched patriarchal norms. It’s important to note that t...
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