For decades, the United States and Israel have stuck closely to their respective, scripted roles in the Middle East: the job of…
The moment the British government began proscribing political movements as terrorist organisations, rather than just militant groups, it was inevitable that saying…
Western establishmentsā fear of the phrase āGlobalise the intifadaā has little to do with any danger supposedly posed to Jewish populations from…
Israel has penned us all into a ādebateā, one entirely divorced from reality, that relates only to those killed directly by its…
Anyone wondering why the British state and media, despite the latterās pretension to serve as a watchdog on power, continue to cheerlead Israelās genocidal slaughter of…
[This is an adaptation of a talk I presented at an event āReporting Gaza: Work, Life and Deathā, organised by the South…
The BBC’s now in a death loop: it grows ever more craven to the billionaires, shifting the political centre of gravity further…
Isnāt Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isnāt Hamas…
Ceasefires stick because the two sides in a war have reached military stalemate ā or because the incentives for each side in…
This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on…
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