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By Daniel Friedman Daniel Friedman responds to Angie Segal’s criticism of Ronnie Kasrils As a boy growing up in South Africa one thing I vividly remember is the blue Jewish National Fund (JNF) charity boxes that seemed ever-present at shops in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. By that time, this initiative must have been going for decades, because despite belonging to an earlier generation, Ronnie Kasrils remembers the same thing from his childhood. In his recent column on the wildfires that have spread across Israel in The Mail & Guardian: Fires ablaze in a stolen land: Israel’s trees planted over Palestinian villages…
Abdulla Moaswes in conversation with Ramzy Baroud in the FloodGate podcast interview. (Design: Palestine Chronicle) By Romana Rubeo The Floodgate Podcast hosts Abdulla Moaswes to reveal the ideological and strategic ties between India and Israel, unraveling how they shape repression and resistance in Kashmir and Palestine. In the latest episode of The Floodgate Podcast, Ramzy Baroud engaged with renowned scholar Abdullah Moaswes in a comprehensive analysis of the Kashmir conflict. The conversation highlighted that resolving Kashmir’s complex situation requires appreciating its multifaceted colonial history, the evolving regional dynamics, and the intricate connections to parallel struggles like that of Palestine. The interview…
By Alon Mizrahi How it beautifully aligns with the one you do remember, and what kind of unrelated and coincidental calamity it can caution us against Colonizers love to colonize. It is what they do and what they live for. And one of the things colonizers love to colonize most is the calendar. In collectible memory, the year 2023, for instance, consists of just one day. The Z state colonized the rest of that year, so we don’t have it anymore. We don’t know what happened on April 6 or August 25, 2023. Similarly, we can’t collectively recall what happened…
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Netanyahu departs the White House in Washington, DC, on 7 April, 2025 (AFP) By Sami Al-Arian From Gaza to Riyadh, the US president is making deals that undercut Israeli priorities. But these tactical shifts should not be misread as a break from America’s imperial strategy US President Donald Trump’s tour of the Middle East last week – which included stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE – marked a notable departure from his previously unflinching alignment with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In the days leading up to the visit, Trump negotiated a ceasefire with the Houthis…
By Iqbal Suleman U.S president Donald Trump boasted that he would net one trillion dollars prior to his first foreign trip to the Gulf countries of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The Arabs doubled it and America netted 2 trillion dollars. Whilst Trump and the Arab ruling class were schmoozing and smiling for the camera’s , Benjamin and his band of barbarians from the Israeli Defence Forces were ratcheting up the slaughter, bombing and burning Palestinians under tents, blowing up hospitals and killing around a hundred Palestinians a day. Babies have been starving to death. Grandmas and…
By Iqbal Jassat In sharp contrast to the humiliating subservience of unelected Arab despots who raced with each other to shamefully bow down to American imperialism, Iran and Yemen stood out as firm, committed allies of Palestine’s freedom struggle. The spectacle that unfolded in Riyadh, Doha and Abu Dhabi where each one of these reactionary autocrats shamefully opened the vaults of their loot to hand over trillions of dollars to the world’s most unpredictable leader Donald Trump, while down the road in Gaza millions lack food, water and medicine due directly to America’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, has been shocking…
By Hassen Lorgat The article The global right turn: How the left has fragmented – Chuck Stephens supposedly sets out to talk of the rise of the right and the fragmentation of the global left. His concluding chant is under the banner of the crusades as he hankers after “Reconquista Crista”. In his analysis, Stephens chucks in a host of electoral victories and defeats to argue that the Left has been decimated. I agree that the Left has been in decline but not on the facts posited and definitely not based on electoral political trends in Germany, Romania, South Africa and the…
By Iqbal Jassat On the days leading to the 77th year of the Nakba which has not ended yet, South Africans were shocked to discover that a peaceful protest at a football event in Pretoria was violently and forcefully disrupted by police officers. Video footage and eye-witness accounts reveal disgusting and horrifying behaviour by members of the SA Police targeting solidarity activists who included elders, women and children. What could be mistaken for the brutality of the era of apartheid that was despised, opposed and overcome, regrettably the overwhelmingly violent police conduct occurred in full public view three decades later…
By Dr Firoz Osman As Nakba Day is commemorated annually on May 15, it is extremely important to provide both a historical as well as contemporary account of the tragic events that marked the catastrophe that befell Palestine in 1948, and continues to this day. In order to gain an understand of the Nakba, MRN’s Dr Firoz Osman provides detailed responses to a series of questions usually posed by media. It is hoped that the background and context provided by him, will not only assist in gaining knowledge of the Nakba, but also ensure that the Palestinian narrative is kept alive. Question…
By Sõzarn Barday Thursday, May 15 marks Nakba Day—a solemn commemoration of the 1948 catastrophe, when more than 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes following the creation of the colonial-settler “State” of Israel. Seventy-seven years later, the Nakba is not a closed chapter in history—it remains a brutal and ongoing reality. In both Gaza and the West Bank, Israel’s military onslaught has revived the original trauma of displacement. In Gaza, relentless bombardment has decimated entire neighbourhoods, forcing over 2.4 million people into repeated, desperate flight. Families cling to survival in makeshift shelters, often bombed again, starved of food…