Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us. The boycott of Haaretz lacks a legal basis, but Netanyahu couldn’t care less Aluf Benn ruth is the first casualty of war” goes the old cliche, but like any other adage, it holds a… Read More Netanyahu’s boycott of Haaretz won’t stop us reporting the grim truth about Israel’s wars
Siyavash Shahabi Life in Iran under a totalitarian regime is a relentless performance, a dance of endurance. It’s like Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano’s “Art/Life: One Year Performance 1983–1984,” where they tied themselves together by an 8-foot rope, day after day. The rope held them close but kept them apart, bound by rules but divided… Read More The Art of Survival in Iran’s Repressive Regime
“When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn’t ride in the front of the bus,” Owens said. “I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House… Read More Jesse Owens pierced a myth
Kalita has alleged that police have been antedating Code of Criminal Procedure Section 161 statements of witnesses that had been recorded earlier. Tarushi Aswani The Delhi high court has issued notice in response to a plea by activist Devangana Kalita, who had been arrested and jailed in the 2020 Delhi riots ‘conspiracy’ case. Kalita, who… Read More High Court Issues Notice to Delhi Police After Devangana Kalita Accuses it of Tampering with her Case Diary
Israel has been accused by multiple human rights groups and UN investigators of military conduct that could amount to war crimes over the past year, which it has vociferously denied. Hamas has also been accused of war crimes. In October, a UN inquiry said Israel had a “concerted policy” of destroying the health care system in Gaza… Read More Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of mass displacement in Gaza amounting to a war crime
His self-defence on civil liberties was: ‘I gave so many people bail, from A to Z’, rather than the ‘law and process was applied consistently and fairly. Umar Khalid got the same consideration as Arnab Goswami’ Supreme Court justices demitting office are often subject to a legal scorecard. Assessments go through their rulings and catalogue… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: D. Y. Chandrachud, a Chief Justice of his time
The answer lies in Germany’s history – but it is not, as many assume tied to efforts to atone for the Nazi Holocaust and ensure that it never happens again… Germany was never fully de-Nazified. It never attempted to come to terms with the politics that had led to the rise of Hitler. Tony Greenstein… Read More Why is Germany supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
Juan Cole Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Palestinian Ministry of Education released a report this week detailing that 11,923 students in Gaza have been killed by Israel’s total war in the past year. In addition, 19,199 have been wounded, many with life-altering injuries. A physician working in Gaza last summer reported to HRW, “We are talking about… Read More Israel’s Scholasticide and the Irrelevance of US Politics: 11,923 Palestinian Students didn’t Go Back to School this Fall because Israel Killed them
Aditya Chakrabortty Since we’ll hear a lot, again, about “populism”, let’s remember, again, that 19th-century US populism had a healthy strain of leftwing politics. Defending workers, riling up bankers, decrying the “cross of gold” and economic conservatism: look past his Bible-bashing, and William Jennings Bryan was a precursor to Franklin Roosevelt. Yet for much of… Read More Why did voters abandon Kamala Harris? Because they feel trapped – and Trump offered a way out
GAZA casualties, live statistics Israeli ground forces are getting closer to “the complete evacuation” of northern Gaza and residents will not be allowed to return home, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, in what appears to be the first official acknowledgment from Israel it is systematically removing Palestinians from the area. In a media briefing on… Read More Palestinians will not be allowed to return to homes in northern Gaza, says IDF
After the truth-shower 