Geography Archives: Middle East

You never see the dehumanization of Palestinians in western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.

How an evidence-free smear is being used to suppress those fighting for justice in Palestine.

Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.

Reginald D Hunter is the latest target of pro-Israel provocateurs feigning victimhood. Time to bring down the curtain on this pantomime, says Rivkah Brown.

The Israeli army is planning forced evacuations of West Bank civilians, and the military operation in the territory is expected to last several days.

It’s so unfair how Israel’s neighbors keep attacking it completely unprovoked while Israel is just innocently minding its own business trying to commit a little genocide in peace.

Kevin Potter analyzes the punishing memory culture surrounding Palestine activism at the University of Vienna.

If the Biden administration is truly concerned about the loss of innocent Palestinian life in Gaza, it can stop Israel’s atrocities by denying it the tools it needs to commit them.

“As such, it was necessary to engage authorities in Namibia on issues of concern to ensure our decisions and actions domestically are aligned with our obligations in terms of international law and our policy stance of many years on Palestine.”

University and college students are returning to campus amidst a fall offensive launched against free speech. The ruling class is determined to put students “in their place” after they have bravely opposed the Gaza genocide, despite savage repression, punishments by administrators, and the revoking of job offers to oppose U.S. support for the genocide in […]

Western media companies have made themselves a part of the mechanism of genocide in Palestine, and there are historical precedents for holding them accountable.

For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause.

For the merchants of war, the collective pain and misery of whole nations is dwarfed by the lucrative deals of billions of dollars generated from weapons sales.

Big oil and gas company Chevron is deeply entwined with the Israeli state.

The Israel Defense Forces has decided to downsize the Oketz unit, Unit 7142, ahead of its cancellation. The unit for dogs and their trainers has been suffering from a shortage recently.

Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.

Hamas political bureau member Sami Abu Zuhri on Saturday dismissed optimistic talk by U.S. President Joe Biden that a Gaza truce is nearer after negotiations in the Gulf emirate of Qatar.

Recent student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine prompted considerable media conversation.

There’s a video of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream. The screams of a man who suddenly lost everything a man could possibly lose. Screaming Gaza’s screams.

Earlier reports said the U.S. was going to sanction the unit, Netzah Yehuda, but Israeli officials lobbied against the plan.