Wed 8-May-2024

Nasim Ahmed

Dismantle Israel’s ‘Anatomy of Genocide’: Bring back UN Special Committee against Apartheid

In her latest report, “Anatomy of a Genocide,” the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, concluded that the threshold for genocide has been met in Israel’s military assault on Gaza.

What is UNRWA, and why is Israel trying to have it closed down?

At least 10 Western governments, including the US, UK and Germany, suspended their donations to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) last week after twelve of its staff were accused by Israel of involvement in the 7 October Hamas incursion.

There is ‘absolutely no’ chance of a two-state solution because Israel killed it

“Why are you obsessed with a two-state solution?” said Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the UK during a Sky interview this week.

Weaponized definition of anti-Semitism ‘tool’ to undermine free-speech

The highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism has been repeatedly abused to suppress criticism of Israel and stifle pro-Palestinian activism at UK universities a startling new report has found.

Israel’s occupation has long exceeded any temporary military necessity

A new UN study has concluded that Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories is illegal. “The Legality of the Israeli Occupation” looked at Israel’s extended control over the Palestinian Territories to see if it breaches international law.

US is like thought police with pro-Israel resolution denying apartheid

The two major political parties in the US have waded into the debate about whether or not Israel is a racist state by passing a non-binding resolution pledging loyalty and support to it.

Israel state archive: Zionists sought to enlist Nazis against Britain

Efforts by Zionist militias to recruit Nazi Germany in the fight against the British Mandate authorities in Palestine have been revealed in newly-released transcripts in the Israel State Archive.

Europe is shielding Israel under guise of combating anti-Semitism

The chilling repercussions of the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism have been revealed in a recent report by the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC).

Foreign Affairs magazine: Israel apartheid and Jewish supremacy

Unsurprisingly last month’s article in the Foreign Affairs magazine which laid down the facts about Israel’s apartheid system and Jewish supremacy generated strong debate and criticism.

Shielding Israel from criticism is not part of US strategy

Supporters of Israel advocating for the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism have suffered a major blow in their ongoing effort to shield the apartheid state from criticism.

Israel’s ‘right to exist’ challenged in expert testimonies

“Israel’s right to exist” has been challenged in expert testimonies by leading scholars Professor John Dugard and Professor Avi Shlaim. Dugard is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa.

Israel has never had a democracy so how can it lose it?

What should we make of the daily warnings issued about democracy being in peril in Israel? Over the weekend it was US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides who sounded the alarm.

Jewish supremacy is state policy says Netanyahu

American Jewish leaders are right to be worried. As Benjamin Netanyahu peels away at the façade that has maintained support for the occupation state within liberal Jewish constituencies in the US and elsewhere they are discovering that their democratic image of Israel is but a figment of their imagination.

The Israel you knew has not ‘gone’ it never existed

Israel’s war on Palestine is not confined to the battlefield. It is also waged in the media nowhere more prominently than in the New York Times.

Outrage over the rise of Jewish Power

Israel’s far-right ultranationalists have become the new power brokers. For the foreseeable future the government of the Occupation State will include openly fascist parties.

Another nail on the apartheid regime

Rarely does a week pass by where we don’t see Israel tightening its grip on Palestine through its apartheid system of domination and control or new revelations about the detrimental effect this is having on Palestinians.