Jamal Kanj says whoever wins Iran’s presidential election is likely to find himself at loggerheads with the West as long as the latter continues to view the Middle East through Israeli eyes. More »
Stuart Littlewood says the Church of England, which is shamefully silent over the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Christians and Muslims by the Israeli occupiers, has much to learn from its Scottish counterpart. More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
