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Palestine and the Middle East

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

  • Liberation by the masses

    Revolutionary pan-Africanist Walter Rodney understood Palestinian liberation would be driven by the people writes Chinedu Chukwudinma

  • A group of politicians, diplomats and military officials standing in a row for a photograph for US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel's Department of Defence

    The Iron Dome is global – and so is the resistance

    In her powerful speech at ‘Still We Rise’, Naomi Klein argues that global political classes are united behind a shared supremacist vision in their defence of Israel’s crimes

  • An illustration of a red anemone coronaria on a black background. The centre of the anemone coronaria is filled with Arabic writing, a poem.

    For Palestine, bring the Hague home!

    The genocide in Gaza demands we fight for Palestine, by targeting circuits of power elsewhere. Toufic Haddad writes from Jerusalem

  • The front pages of three national newspapers. Each shows images of people covered in blood. One headline says: 'bloodbath at Kabul airport'.

    Islamophobia and spectacles of Muslim death

    Bad-faith policing of anti-semitism has led to rampant Islamophobia. In the global north, we have become conditioned to watching Muslims die, argues Maura Finkelstein

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New Delhi

    Hostile Homelands – review

    Muhammad Nadeem reviews Hostile Homelands by Azad Essa on the deepening ties between India and Israel

  • On a black background, there are three poppies. Each poppy has a centre of Arabic writing.

    Palestine in poetry and prose

    Palestinian literature has long provided space for resistance, healing, and growth, write Margarita Isabel Asensio Pastor and Eman Mhanna

  • Rubble and destroyed buildings in Gaza city following an Israeli airstrike

    Targeting infrastructure is an assault on Palestinian futures

    Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s infrastructure are a deliberate effort to make the conditions for life impossible for Palestinians, writes Dominic Davies