Sunday 14-April-2024
Prostitution is said to be the oldest profession in the world. Sumerian records dating back nearly 5,000 years describe a temple brothel operated by Sumerian priests in the city of Uruk, in modern-day Iraq on the border with what is now Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
Tuesday 27-February-2024
“Free Palestine” is an enduring phrase that will come to define the street chants of millions of angry citizens who’ve marched and protested in capital cities around the world against Israel’s brutal, genocidal onslaught in Gaza.
Tuesday 19-September-2023
The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has placed the ancient Palestinian city of Jericho on the World Heritage List.
Tuesday 4-July-2023
Most war criminals are caught because of a failure to cover up their crimes. The Holocaust probably provides the grimmest example of this because Nazi Germany exterminated millions of European Jews Poles Roma and others but failed to hide the evidence.
Saturday 24-June-2023
Expressing a negative opinion about Israel on social media can land you in prison if you happen to be a Palestinian in occupied Palestine which is not a good image to project when you claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East.
Monday 8-May-2023
Politicians are generally good at lying. Some of them like former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson simply can’t help themselves and are widely regarded as serial offenders while others are guilty of nothing more than ignorance.
Saturday 22-April-2023
Scotland is one of the smallest countries in the world but you would have to be deaf dumb and blind not to know that last month Humza Yousaf became the first Muslim to be elected as a leader in Western Europe.
Monday 3-April-2023
The deliberate targeting and persecution of academics who are put through the “Zionist wringer” shows no sign of abating even though the latest victim Lara Sheehi has been cleared of spurious claims of inciting hatred of Jews.
Monday 27-March-2023
Israel has gone to war yet again but this time it’s on home turf: Israelis are fighting with Israelis.
Saturday 3-December-2022
Readers of my columns will know that I’ve never been a big fan of the United Nations because of its sheer inability to hold too many of the world’s most prolific human rights offenders to account. At times its silence on such matters has been deafening.
Friday 3-June-2022
Israel has become a law unto itself and unless the international community stands up to the rogue state it will continue to use the world as its own backyard in order to plot against and kill its enemies.
Monday 14-February-2022
Europe’s largest sportswear manufacturer Adidas has ended its lucrative boot deal with French footballer Kurt Zouma after the English Premier League player was shown to kick and slap his pet cat in a video clip uploaded by his brother onto social media.
Thursday 23-December-2021
Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews but say anything negative about the political ideology of Zionism or speak in favor of Palestine and the chances are regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them you will end up being accused of anti-Semitism.
Thursday 9-September-2021
The site of Scotland’s most historic battle is at the center of a war of words after a schoolgirl’s essay highlighted the injustices faced by Palestinians in the 21st century.
Monday 2-August-2021
The plans to sneak Israel quietly into the African Union as an observer state appear to have backfired spectacularly.
Wednesday 16-June-2021
Around the same time that international footballer Christian Eriksen collapsed on a football pitch on Saturday during Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 match against Finland Ibtisam Kaabneh collapsed and lay dying at an Israeli military checkpoint in Qalandiya north of occupied Jerusalem.