Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up

Mimicking the motion of combing locks of hair with a brush, Sama Tubail stares at her reflection in a mirror and begins to cry. “I’m just so sad there isn’t a single strand of hair to comb with my brush,” Sama told CNN with her head in her hands. “I hold the mirror because I… Read More ‘Mama, I’m tired – I want to die:’ Israel’s strikes leave a generation of Palestinian children traumatized / Israeli airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza / Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up

19th March 202519th March 2025 Dilip

Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues that “Zionism and Americanism are the front-lines of Western civilization and freedom in our world today” — pedals the usual absurdity that the Hebrew Bible, written 4,000 years ago, can be used to draw contemporary national borders. Chris Hedges Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump… Read More Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine

12th March 202512th March 2025 Dilip

Juan Cole: Israel Returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ashraf al-Hur reports at al-Quds al-`Arabi [Arab Jerusalem] that the extremist government in Israel has escalated its military attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past few days. The moves come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to start the second phase of the ceasefire… Read More Juan Cole: Israel Returns to Deliberately Starving Palestinian Civilians in Gaza, Planning for Further Total War

10th March 2025 Dilip

The Geopolitics of Peace: Jeffrey Sachs in the European Parliament

I want to share my understanding of the events that have befallen Europe, and I’ll include not only the Ukraine crisis, but also Serbia 1999, the wars in the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, the wars in Africa, including Sudan, Somalia, Libya. These are to a very significant extent the result of deeply misguided US… Read More The Geopolitics of Peace: Jeffrey Sachs in the European Parliament

1st March 2025 Dilip

When the Third Intifada Breaks Out, Don’t Forget That Israel Instigated It

This is what Israel is doing now, just to be clear. A Nakba. Gideon Levy Something is happening for the first time in Israeli history. One war has yet to fully die down, but Israel is already stoking the next one. We have been denied the luxury of a moment to breathe or a bit… Read More When the Third Intifada Breaks Out, Don’t Forget That Israel Instigated It

28th February 2025 Dilip

500 Programme-Makers Condemn Censorship, Racism After BBC Pulls Gaza Documentary

By Middle East Monitor Gary Lineker, Khalid Abdalla, Anita Rani and Miriam Margolyes have joined over 500 film, TV and media workers in condemning censorship and racism after the BBC pulled a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza. The media professionals, including nine BBC staff, sent a letter to the broadcaster’s Director-General Tim Davie, Chair of the Board Samir Shah, Chief Content… Read More 500 Programme-Makers Condemn Censorship, Racism After BBC Pulls Gaza Documentary

27th February 202527th February 2025 Dilip

Monstrous originality

It’s hard to accept that a dispositive majority of Americans love Trump and revel in his bigotry. To say that would amount to saying that the ground out of which American democracy grows is poisoned…. on the matter of Palestine, America’s lower depths have lower depths, its appetite for atrocity in the Middle East is… Read More Monstrous originality

12th February 202512th February 2025 Dilip

The Demon of Ethnic Cleansing Has Been Let Out of the Bottle in Israel

NB: This is a crime unfolding right in front of our eyes; barely spoken of or called out for what it is by the so-called civilised world. The impunity enjoyed by the USA and Israel, backed up by covert or overt military assistance of the Western powers is a token of their brazen colonial attitude… Read More The Demon of Ethnic Cleansing Has Been Let Out of the Bottle in Israel

10th February 202510th February 2025 Dilip

Trump on Ketamine

From Jairus Banaji’s Facebook page A builder fantasizes about transforming Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East, with a string of luxury hotels for the consumption of the world’s super-rich. Netanyahu looks baffled and even pained by the thought, because this real estate fantasy transforms the Israeli state into a mercenary that has unwittingly… Read More Trump on Ketamine

5th February 2025 Dilip

Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)

Dilip Simeon NB: This is part of a paper that I wrote in October 2023. Trump’s new declaration that he intends to complete the process of ethnic cleansing is merely the latest and most brazen declaration of the murderous impulses of American imperialism. He and his cronies will meet the same fate of the Presidents… Read More Nation-states as national homes; and Sir Edwin Montagu’s views on Zionism (1917)