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In an official statement in late May, the Syrian regime announced that Asma al-Assad had been diagnosed with leukaemia, approximately five years after she declared a full recovery from breast cancer. During his latest appearance at the Eid al-Adha prayer, Bashar al-Assad was asked about her condition. With a confident voice, he told the reporter that her illness would only make her more empathetic to what many Syrian families have endured. While the cameraman expressed awe and admiration for the president, this wasn’t the overall reaction to her illness. Unlike in 2016, many people in Syria — ...
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Last Saturday in Deir al-Balah was the worst day of my life. While the sound of Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets screeched over our heads, Israel carried out the Nuseirat refugee camp massacre in central Gaza, moments away. You could hear the screams of children in Nuseirat from our window. Occasionally, a lone siren cuts through the chaos: I say a prayer in hope. Since the war began, we've forgotten how to rest. My mother's hands are constantly clammy, she twitches with trauma. My father hasn't stopped praying. At one point, as the bombs crept closer, we joined him, gathering in one r...
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Kanaky, the indigenous name of New Caledonia — an island in the Pacific Ocean under French control since 1853 — is one of the seventeen remaining non-autonomous territories in the world. Initially established as a penal colony, the last outpost of French settler colonialism has experienced a demographic shift, with non-natives now outnumbering the Kanaks. The latest statistics indicate that the Kanaks now make up only around 41% of the total population. Three weeks ago, the Kanak people said enough. Massive unrest has broken out in New Caledonia after the French parliament adopted a bill aimed...
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Last week former UK government minister Suella Braverman tried to jumpstart her stalling career. She attempted to pick a fight with pro-Palestine student activists at the University of Cambridge, but the students ignored her and got on with organising their campaign. So, to up the stakes, she decided to debate me, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), live on national television. The RCP is organising people in dozens of pro-Palestine encampments at UK universities, and Braverman wanted to go after us. You can watch it for yourself, but I think it’s safe to say Braverman wasn’t ...
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In the vast expanse of the intellectual cosmos, there exists a luminary whose brilliance outshines even the brightest stars. Professor Yuval Noah Harari, a name whispered with reverence among the learned denizens of the galaxy, is a beacon of knowledge, whose canon traverses the celestial planes of history, philosophy, human psychology and beyond. Informed by years of contemplative transcendence and prodigious mastery of the written word, his concepts, like cosmic dark matter anomalies rippling through the fabric of reality, challenge our understanding of existence and propel us toward the fin...
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Monday already feels like a lifetime ago. Outbursts of joy from UNWRA schools, crammed full of displaced Gazans like me, could be heard all across Rafah. Hamas had just announced it would accept a ceasefire and, for a brief moment, Israel's war on Gaza seemed to be coming to an end. But now it's clear this false dawn — the most painful of all — may well be our last. Israel has begun evacuating the eastern part of Rafah and strangled aid routes. Now they are shelling us with impunity. Israel's politicians promised a massacre, and with 1.4 million of us sheltering in an area of 25 square miles, ...
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As soon as I exited the subway station to return to my “alma mater,” I came face to face with the New York City police, the infamous NYPD, who had locked and blocked the iron gates of Columbia University with numerous cages, bodies, and guns. Outside the gates, protestors were chanting loud and clear: Free, Free Palestine! There was “security” at every door, checkpoints at every gate opening up to the lawns of central campus. Cooperating fully with the forces of the American state, Columbia University was determined to keep its disobedient students out of public reach, isolated from the courag...
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As Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza enters its seventh month this week, adding to seventy-five years of incremental ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the only ray of hope lies in raising voices loud enough to pierce the silence and invisibility that Israeli, US, and European institutions have attempted to impose between Gaza and engaged citizens worldwide. The student protests sweeping across Western campuses may be the best chance to achieve that. On April 18, a few courageousColumbia University students captured the world's attention with an encampment for Palestine, intending to address ...
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The Israeli government — and much of Western media — want you to believe that Israel's war on Gaza is being waged in the name of Western civilisation. Israel is on the front line against the unwashed masses of the Global South, they say. Palestinians are barbarians who must be crushed. This racist, colonial logic is trotted out again and again to justify Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people as part of the collective 'civilisational' project of the West. But it wasn't so long ago that Judaism was excluded from so-called Western civilisation. For most of history, Jews in Europe and the Mi...
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After six months of Israeli genocide in Gaza, a look back into history at the 1946 Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry offers some perspective. Today could have been avoided — a peaceful solution in Palestine was on offer. Seventy-eight years ago, on 20 April 1946, six American and six British investigators issued a report on the Palestine “problem” and the fate of Europe’s Jews. Until then, there was still a chance at some kind of peaceful future in Palestine. Those chances seem so far away right now. But maybe we can learn from the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry and see the openings pre...
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