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Caption:Remembering journalists killed in Palestine, at a vigil in Cape Town on 28 January 2024. Photo by Leanne Brady By Atiyyah Khan One of the most revealing takeaways from the genocide in Gaza has been the profound threat posed to journalism. Even in this era of artificial intelligence and disinformation, truth remains a powerful force. And the most brutal way to silence truth is to eliminate those who report it. This has been the clear strategy adopted by Israel. A recent study found that more journalists have been killed since 7 October 2023 than in any other conflict in modern…

Pic Courtesy: Friends of Palestine By Hassen Lorgat We all know they killed Shireen, Refaat/ and over 200 of your comrades / This was confirmed by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate/ /Their regular reports have used up all the synonyms … To tell the story of those who have fallen from history’s page/ We all know they kill journalists, don’t we? In your case, Hassan Aslih/ They sent an assassin drone to finish the job/ That was when you lay in your bed at the surgical unit of Al Nasser Medical Complex/ in the town of Khan Younis/ You were recovering…

PRESS RELEASE  The Rohingya have suffered decades of institutionalised apartheid, denial of citizenship rights, freedom of movement, access to education, health services and land rights. They have been subjected to arbitrary arrests, sexual violence, forced labour, extortion, forced conscription and collective punishment. During August 2017, the Myanmar military perpetrated a genocide against the Rohingya forcing a million Rohingya to flee to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, where they now live in the world’s largest refugee camp. Cases related to the genocide are currently before the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court and the Argentine courts. Conflict since the military coup…

By MEE staff Palestinians mourn relatives killed in an Israeli strike at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on 26 May (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP) The op-ed in the newspaper Liberation is signed by 300 distinguished authors and comes as a new poll shows French people overwhelmingly approve sanctions against Israel The French newspaper Liberation published an op-ed on Monday signed by 300 French-speaking authors, which called for “naming the ‘genocide’” committed by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza. The signatories of the text, which included two Nobel Prize winners for literature, Annie Ernaux and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, denounced “the repeated public statements of leading figures such as Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich…

“When you have had privilege for so long, equality looks like oppression” By Hassen Lorgat Rob Hersov has been a regular on your programmes and, it appears, in South African media generally. The discussion was themed SA must win the ideological battle, reject ANC socialism and embrace capitalism [BizNews 19 Mar 2025] and this call he makes everywhere. However, this conversation between Alec Hogg and Hersov on the necessity for capitalist triumph – whilst interesting – does not present a solution that is sustainable nor desirable for us all. At best, it will be short-lived as long as redress around…

By Abed Choudhury Head of IHRC Advocacy, Abed Choudhury, takes the current narratives around the case to deproscribe Hamas, as a starting point to unravel the crisis of law and democracy faced if we give credence to the voices currently holding public sway. The crisis around deproscription is twofold: First, the UK’s proscription regime itself is a blunt instrument—applied with political discretion, minimal accountability, and deeply inconsistent logic. Second, those who dare to challenge this regime, particularly lawyers, are increasingly vilified, undermining the rule of law and democratic debate. The political nature of proscription is best illustrated by the…

By Iqbal Jassat “Lying is not a vice unless it does harm. It is a very great virtue when it does good… One must lie like the devil, not timidly, not just for a time, but boldly and always. Lie, my friends, lie. I will pay you back in kind one day.” – Voltaire  Is there an attempt by Israel to co-opt certain members of South Africa’s political formations for an exercise in salvaging its battered image? It certainly is and appears to have gone into high-gear reflecting frantic efforts to combat growing dismay and disgust within South Africa at…

By Vera Baboun Ambassador of Palestine to Chile Dr. Alaa al-Najjar is not just another name in Gaza’s devastated registers—she is Gaza’s soul, torn apart. A pediatrician, a mother of ten, and a lifeline for countless children wounded by the unrelenting violence in the Strip, Dr. Najjar lived to save lives. On Friday, she left her children at home to serve in the emergency room of Nasser Medical Complex. Hours later, she was forced to identify seven of her own children’s lifeless, burned bodies in the same hospital’s morgue. Yahya, 12, Eve, 9, Rival, 5, Sadeen, 3, Rakan, 10, Ruslan,…

The Suspect Planting Explosives In A Civilian Building In Gaza Lima/Peru In a landmark development for international justice, the Republic of Peru has formally opened a criminal investigation against an Israeli national accused of participating in the genocide in Gaza, following a legal complaint submitted by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF). The complaint was filed by Julio César Arbizu González, a prominent Peruvian human rights lawyer and legal counsel to the Foundation. ​The individual under investigation served as a combat engineering soldier in the Israeli military and is alleged to have played a direct role in the methodical and systematic…

Image by Taylor Brandon. By  Dave Lindorff The World is Sickened by Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (Including Many Israelis and IDF Soldiers) Cambridge, UK — Israel’s leaders, and by extension their zionist supporters, are increasingly being condemned as genocidal criminals in much or the world — even in places like the UK, France and Canada, where they had been given a pass for most of the latest war on Gaza and for decades before that. What this means for the future remains of course to be seen, but from here it looks like Israel and its lobbying/propaganda operation in western nations,…