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.
Nasim Ahmed
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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.