Middle East

( Middle East Monitor ) – The discussion on institutional Israeli racism against its own Palestinian Arab population has all but ceased following the final approval of the discriminatory Nation-State Law in July 2018. Indeed, the latest addition to Israel’s Basic Law is a mere start of a new government-espoused agenda that is designed to […]

Democratic Party

How will the US election Change the Mideast?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Joe Biden wins the presidency and the Democrats sweep to power in both houses of Congress, it will have a huge impact on domestic policies, on everything from health care to workers’ rights to green energy. But the impact on foreign policy would be equally significant. The biggest foreign […]

Displaced and Refugees

In Turkey, life for Syrian refugees and Kurds is becoming increasingly violent

The Conversation

By Yasin Duman | – A spate of attacks in Turkey on Syrian refugees and Kurdish internal migrants and displaced people in recent months have put both communities on edge. In July, a Syrian teenager working as a market seller in Bursa, northwestern Turkey, died after he was attacked by a group of men. Another […]

Israel/ Palestine

Hunger strikes highlight Israel’s unjust detention of political prisoners

Ramona Wadi

( Middle East Monitor ) – Calling for the freedom of one Palestinian political prisoner is what Israel expects from the international community. The latest detainee to go on hunger strike protesting against the administrative detention order that keeps him in prison indefinitely with neither formal charges nor trial is Maher Al-Akhras. His protest has […]

Israel/ Palestine

Can Palestinians win over Israelis disillusioned with Right Wing Zionism?

Middle East Monitor

By Hamada Fara’na ( Middle East Monitor) – Amira Hass is a courageous Israeli journalist who defends the Palestinian people relentlessly and without hesitation. She writes about the rights of Palestinians and exposes the actions and racism of Israel’s occupation. In Haaretz recently, she wrote about a 19-year-old Israeli woman, Hallel Rabin, who refused to […]

Bahrain

Are Trump’s Arab-Israeli “Peace Deals” fuelling a New Mideast Arms Race?

Middle East Monitor

By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Giving up its decades-old position against Israel’s occupation of Palestine, Sudan has agreed to normalise relations with the Zionist state. Tellingly, this was announced by US President Donald Trump on Friday at the White House. He is, of course, seeking a second term […]

Health Care

‘There Is No Insulin’: Desperate Iranians Tweet Calls For Life-Saving Drug

Golnaz Esfandiari

(RFE/RL) – Tens of thousands of diabetics in Iran are said to be facing shortages of insulin, with many such patients and their loved ones complaining that the problem could have life-threatening consequences. Some Iranians have taken to social media to protest the scarcity of insulin pens and highlight their plight or that of loved […]

Donald Trump

Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of geopolitics, incites warfare between Egypt and Ethiopia

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of geopolitics, has shot his big mouth off again and incited warfare between Egypt and Ethiopia. Trump said, according to the BBC, that Egypt cannot accept the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that is being built on the Blue Nile, which the government of Abdel Fattah […]

Israel/ Palestine

The ‘Left-Wing anti-Semitism’ Hoax comes for Human Rights Watch and Amnesty Int’l

Asa Winstanley

By Asa Winstanley | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – We are now only ten days away from the US presidential election. Like it or not, the election affects us in the UK almost as much as those in the US. Such is the influence that the US has had on British policy for […]