Iran elections

Iran’s presidential election, the West and Israel

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 »

Christian Zionism

Is this the best that Christianity can do?

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 »

Logo of Syrian 15 March Revolution

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 »

Bullying stops here

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 »

No Walls Can Silence Our Voices

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 »

Israeli apartheid

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 »

Church of Scotland logo

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 »

John Kerry

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 »

Israeli tank

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 »

US-Israel religious hypocrisy

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 »

Tag: USA

America’s Muslim Zionists

The name sounds benign enough: the American Islamic Congress (AIC). The mission appears equally harmless, if somewhat vague: We believe American Muslims must take the lead in building tolerance and fostering a

It’s all about appeasing Israeli racism

John Kerry

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.

Israel again rebuffs peace with the Arab world

Israeli tank

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.

Religious persecution and Israeli exceptionalism

US-Israel religious hypocrisy

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.

In praise of UN rights rapporteur Richard Falk

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.

Israel’s ethnocentric experiment

Jewish settler racist graffiti

Jamal Kanj views Israel's escalating preconditions for talks with the Palestinians, all of which have yielded absolutely nothing and are intended to turn peace negotiations into a process to end all peace.

Freedom and high anxiety in the USA

Anxiety

Lawrence Davidson says US-type freedom has encouraged the heartless disregard of poverty, allowed the evolution of interest groups that work against national interests and produced a media environment that breeds exaggeration.

The Arab Islamists’ bargain with the West

Optimistic observers of the Arab world might like to believe that the Islamist wave sweeping across the region is but a temporary phase that must be traversed before the people regain control

The proxy war destroying Syria

Pain of Syria

Jamal Kanj argues that between them, an arrogant tyrant, Bashar Assad, a fractious, visionless, bankrupt opposition, and Russia, the USA and Turkey are breaking up Syria into mini Israel-type ethnocentric states.

The Holy Land gets skunked

Israelis skunk Palestinians

Lawrence Davidson says President Obama and most of Congress can’t tell the difference between fair and foul in Israel because their world has been defined by a Zionist lobby with Orwellian powers.