Germany, guilty of the 20th century’s worst genocide, has no moral authority to impose conditions on South Africans in exchange for research grants while arming a 21st-century genocide. By DR QURAYSHA ISMAIL SOOLIMAN The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), a German state-funded foundation with direct ties to Chancellor...

We are watching the institutional Zionisation of Pakistan’s military posture—where policy is crafted to satisfy an Israeli worldview, where dissent is criminalised, and where occupation is mimicked at home. By JUNAID S AHMAD In the imperial puppet theatre of Washington, where strings are pulled by donors and...

Zohran Mamdani’s rise is not just a story of one man’s success. It is the story of what becomes possible when movements — and memories — are nurtured with integrity. From Cape Town’s madrasa halls to New York’s subway stops, the values of mercy, justice, and collective...

After the USA bombed Iran, the immediate future for those who oppose US imperialism and Zionism looks extremely bleak. Things are likely to worsen on all fronts before they improve. Israel will be hegemonic in the Middle East. The Arab states will be subservient. Palestinians are unlikely...

Let’s strip the paint off the façade. Israel is not a democracy under siege. It is an apartheid regime built on the premise of eternal expansion, maintained through brute force, and glorified by Western sycophants too cowardly—or too compromised—to confront its reality. By JUNAID S. AHMAD Diplomacy...

For the human rights discourse to remain relevant, it must be rooted in justice. It must acknowledge that the rights of individuals cannot be conditional, nor selectively applied. Injustice anywhere diminishes the rights of all people, and this is particularly true in Palestine. By FAADIYAH GAFFOOR To...

Reality is often more interesting than fiction. In the fable, the villagers give up on believing the silly boy. In the real world, the villagers continue to believe in the little Netanyahu. MOGAMAT REDERWAAN CRAAYENSTEIN Netanyahu claims that Israel had to bomb Iran because the IAEA, the...

Israel has always been a project promoted by imperialist powers, and this has profound implications for the history of anti-Semitism, argues DAVID COHEN. Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians, with the open support of Britain, the USA and other powers, continues unabated. This genocidal assault on the Palestinian...

The Middle East is being pushed toward an abyss—not by Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but by Israel’s sense of impunity and America’s addiction to double standards. By JUNAID S. AHMAD There are moments in history when diplomacy dies with a whimper, not a bang. But this time, it...

Israel assassinates scientists, engineers and technicians and bombs nuclear facilities because it wants to be the only country with any expertise in this area. Atomic knowledge is power. These Jewish Israelis are the disciples of Thrasymachus, not Abraham or Moses. By MOGAMAT REDERWAAN CRAAYENSTEIN Israel says that...