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Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng  (Pic Courtesy – UN)  *F**U – A poem* By Hassen Lorgat  Pardon my choice words for the Genocider-in-Chief who recalls Amalek as his war cry, whose war cabinet “democratically votes” to starve a caged people, Whilst his president tells his troops: “There are no innocents in Gaza.” Pardon my choice of words while the fugitive unconfronted, flees from international law, his foot soldiers, here and there, are affronted by my jaw-jaw. But this I know: the serial killer is loose and hides in plain sight. …while my heart appears weak, my soul scarred by betrayal, my mouth…

By Husam Mahjoub Counterrevolution, Gold, and Global Impunity Sudan today is not only a battlefield between two militarized factions. It is a graveyard of regional and international hypocrisy and a case study in subimperialism—a subimperialist country being one that is not a major imperial power, yet acts in ways that align with the interests of imperial powers and behaves as an imperialist within its own region. The war that has devastated Sudan since April 2023 is not only a Sudanese tragedy; it is a manifestation of a broader global order in which financial interests, military influence, and strategic alignments matter more…

UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese The United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories has briefed members of the world body’s General Assembly on how more than sixty governments, most importantly Western powers and several Arab states, have been enabling the Israeli regime’s “genocidal machinery” in Gaza. On Tuesday, Francesca Albanese delivered her presentation of her latest report, whose advance version had been released less than a week ago, to the General Assembly remotely, at the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, in Cape Town, South Africa. According to her, the 24-page report, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, showed…

Summary of the UN Special Rapporteur’s Report on Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime Third State Complicity in Enabling and Sustaining the Gaza Genocide Prepared by: Yaman Midani, Polona Florijancic, and Henriette Willberg Overview On 20 October 2025, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, published her latest report entitled “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime”. The report finds that the ongoing genocide in Gaza constitutes a collective crime, enabled and sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have long supported and protected Israel’s systemic violations of international law. Underpinned by colonial…

In a powerful collective action, more than 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have vowed to boycott the New York Times’ Opinion section, citing its persistent anti-Palestinian bias amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. More than 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to refrain from contributing to the Opinion section of the New York Times until three specific demands are met in a significant stand against media bias against Palestinians.   The writers have decided to withhold their labor until the Opinion pages take “accountability for its biased coverage and commit to truthfully and ethically reporting on the US-Israeli war…

“And will there be consequences for local actors, especially the legal team who conspired in the hoax to sabotage Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Annual event featuring Albanese?”   By Iqbal Jassat  In his report on the annual event hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) which featured UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, Sunday Times journalist Hendrik Hanke provided a short but succinct account of her powerful speech. (Sunday Times, October 26,2025) Though readers have expected wider coverage of Albanese’s whirlwind tour of South Africa, including the crucial forays she made…

People walk past a projection depicting Israeli and US flags on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on October 22, 2025, during the visit of the US Vice President to Israel. [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images] by Jamal Kanj  jamalkk The nature of the United States’ relationship with Israel defies logic and reason. It is a parasitic one-sided benefit, entangled in the tentacles of organised influence, manipulation, financial power, and media control. Israel contributes next to nothing of tangible benefit to America’s security, strategic value, or economy, yet Washington continues to design its foreign policy and moral compass around Israel. It…

By Hasina Kathrada UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occuopied Territories, Francesca Albanese addressed a packed Groote Kerk in Cape Town om SUnday afternoon, 26 October 2025. Photo: David Harrison The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, will present her report “Gaza Genocide: Collective Crime” to the UN General Assembly from The Desmond and Leah Foundation in Cape Town on Tuesday. The report examines the complicity of third states in “the ongoing genocide in Gaza”, arguing that military, economic, diplomatic and even “humanitarian”, support for Israel has enabled its prolonged and systematic violations of international law. Albanese is in South Africa at…

By Ramona Wadi Palestinians walk among the rubble of destroyed buildings on the streets of Sheikh Radwan district, devastated by Israeli bombings in Gaza City, Gaza on October 20, 2025. [Mahmoud Abu Hamda – Anadolu Agency] Even in the context of Israel’s genocide in Palestine, calls for compromise have not abated. One recent call for compromise comes from Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed. In an interview at the Reuters NEXT Gulf Summit, Gargash reiterated the UAE’s support for the two-state paradigm which “provides Israel with security and Palestinians with a viable state.”…