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Under the pretext of ‘self-defence’, Israel has systematically devastated Gaza: nearly 63,000 Palestinians killed, including more than 18,500 children; 2200 entire families erased; and civilian infrastructure reduced to rubble, and starvation. Photo: AP (March 2021)

Zionism’s modern atrocities echo the horrors of Nazism

The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians

Palestinians have been persecuted ever since the formation of Israel.

Nakba 2.0: The catastrophe continues

Seventy-seven years ago hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes. Since then they remain under siege in the West Bank and Gaza, where 50,000…

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Fires ablaze in a stolen land: Israel’s trees planted over Palestinian villages are in flames

The genocidal state asks the West for help to fight the fires while its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.

The first two months of the Israel-Gaza war exceeded the individual annual carbon footprints of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.
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Trump’s Gaza plan ignores justice, reality and history

This plan, dressed in the language of logistics or development, is unmistakably a manifestation of a hard-line agenda aimed at erasing Palestinian presence from the land

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA – NOVEMBER 6: People search through buildings, destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. The Israeli army has expanded its military assault. The Gaza strip, a besieged Palestinian territory, is under heavy bombing from Israel in response to the large-scale attack carried out on October 7 by Hamas in Israel. The international community is stepping up pressure for a humanitarian truce. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Israel’s ‘settler logic of elimination’

Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’

António Guterres: European Commission (Christophe Licoppe)

António Guterrers, the man for our time

The secretary general of the United Nations is committed to peace, yet Israel in its war on Gaza and beyond chose to ban him

People mourn as they collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

War on Gaza shows the bias of the ‘international community’

Over the past few weeks we have witnessed a disturbing trend of a collective blind eye being turned to history

Palestinian supporters wave flags as they take part in a counter demonstration outside the venue where Israel supporters gather in an event organised by the South Africa Zionist Federation in Johannesburg, on May 23, 2021. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel must not have a place at the African Union until it ends its occupation of Palestine

The AU Commission chairperson’s decision to accept the credentials of Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia undermines the anti-colonial values that underpin the AU

A protester holds a Palestinian flag as smoke rises from a burning tyre.

Call Israel what it is: An apartheid state

The Nakba began with the establishment of Israel in 1948 and has never ended. Palestinian are still removed from their land and their home and are still being killed and…

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Remembering South Africa’s catastrophe: The 1948 poll that heralded apartheid

Apartheid has been removed from the statute books for almost three decades. But a de facto apartheid endures both economically and socially

Israeli troops fire tear gas at Palestinians at a peaceful march for their return to their homeland. May 15 commemorates the mass eviction of Palestinians from their land.

The will to live drives Palestinians

Unarmed people under siege in Gaza face Israeli soldiers and Trump’s threat to Resolution 194

The Giro d’Italia has sparked protests in Rome

Giro d’Italia’s Israel start under fire

Politics is set to overshadow the iconic cycling race, which stands accused of ‘sport-washing’ human rights violations