Nasim Ahmed

Outrage over the rise of Jewish Power

Sunday 13-November-2022

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

Friday 11-March-2022

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.

Israel throws millions into new clandestine hasbara initiative

Sunday 30-January-2022

Israel has long relied on its much-vaunted hasbara to conceal the reality of its domination of Palestine and subjugation of its people.

It will be Israel not Iran which destroys any new nuclear deal

Wednesday 8-December-2021

World leaders have been trying desperately to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+ countries: the US Britain China Russia France and Germany.

Rushing to support the ugly face of Israel does not defend free speech

Saturday 13-November-2021

Britain is mired in another row about freedom of speech following Tuesday’s student protest against extreme right-wing Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely.

Why did the United States add Israel to CENTCOM?

Saturday 13-February-2021

Having aligned their security interest with Israel Arab states will now find it extremely difficult to disentangle themselves from the many hostile and belligerent operations of the Zionist state.

The definition of anti-Semitism weaponized for Israel’s benefit

Tuesday 30-June-2020

The Ryerson Centre for Free Expression hosted a virtual forum earlier this month on the definition of anti-Semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

AIPAC is losing battle to preserve Israel’s bipartisan status in US

Thursday 13-February-2020

The latest clash in the American civil war over Israel which pits liberal progressives against right-wing reactionary nationalists ended with an apology at the weekend by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Peace plans have no function except to serve Israel’s colonialism

Thursday 6-February-2020

It will prove to be Israel’s misfortune that the Zionist project to take over Palestine got underway at a period when settler-colonialism was coming to be viewed with moral and legal contempt.

Remembering the Naksa

Monday 5-June-2017

Fifty years ago this month Israel launched a war against its neighbours and took control of the parts of Palestine which it had failed to capture during its 1948 “War of Independence”.

Israel is an apartheid state; let’s not pretend otherwise

Friday 19-May-2017

In an editorial about a recently proposed bill in the Israeli Knesset (parliament) which seeks to impose Israeli law on Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank Haaretz said somewhat peevishly that the measure could officially transform Israel into an apartheid state.