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The Syrian revolution made simple

Nureddin Sabir unpicks the various components of the Syrian armed conflict, and argues that the Syrian people have been badly let down by the incoherent and fractious groups claiming to represent them. More »

Church of Scotland unmoved by Zionist bullies

Stuart Littlewood says a Church of Scotland report rebuffing Jewish claims to exclusive rights to Palestine remains largely unchanged in the face of Zionist bullying and will go before the Church’s Assembly. More »

Alan Hart and what it takes to struggle on

Lawrence Davidson argues that far from being lost, the Palestinian cause “has made significant progress over the past three decades and it is well positioned to make more progress in the future”. More »

Israel’s racist and ethnocentric roots

Jamal Kanj highlights the racism of Israel, “the only nation where religious ethnicity is an automatic qualifier for citizenship and where the rights of indigenous people are denied for ‘deficient’ maternal genetics”. More »

Will Church of Scotland cave in to Zionist bullies?

Stuart Littlewood sees worrying signs that the Church of Scotland may be about to surrender to Zionist bullying over a report in which it rebuffed false claims to exclusive rights to Palestine. More »

It’s all about appeasing Israeli racism

Jamal Kanj says the latest US “peace proposal” – swapping lands seized by Israel in 1948 with ones it occupied in 1967 – is immoral and illegal and appeases racism. More »

Israel again rebuffs peace with the Arab world

Jonathan Cook argues that Israel’s lack of interest in the latest Arab territorial concession exposes its longstanding lie that the Arabs "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" to make peace. More »

Religious persecution and Israeli exceptionalism

Stuart Littlewood examines a prime example of double standards from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, which exempts Israeli persecution of non-Jewish faiths from its list of religious persecutors. More »

Solidarity with the Syrian revolution

Nureddin Sabir calls on freedom-loving people worldwide to declare publicly their support for the Syrian people and to participate in the Global Day of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution on 31 May. More »

In praise of UN rights rapporteur Richard Falk

Lawrence Davidson says UN rights rapporteur Richard Falk is guilty only of telling Americans the truth: that much of the terrorism they fear is a product of their own government’s continuing barbarism. More »

Category: Lebanon

April 24, 2013

Lebanon: even coffee is political

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Jamal Kanj says 23 years after its civil war, Lebanon is neither wiser nor less divided, and with a political system perpetuating the national divide and failing to fix the country’s ills.

Posted in: Highlights, Lebanon Tags: Corruption, Justice, Syria, War

January 09, 2013

Lebanon: beauty, resistance and shame

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Gilad Atzmon relates his experience of Lebanon, from “natural beauty, rebellious spirit, pious clarity, tolerance, wild night life, unbelievable hummus” and resistance against Israeli aggression to shameful discrimination against Palestinian refugees.

Posted in: Highlights, Lebanon Tags: Human Rights, Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians