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A flag that says ‘Free Palestine’ is raised during a protest against Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir giving a speech to Yale University-based Jewish society Shabtai in New Haven, the US on April 23, 2025 [Michelle McLoughlin/Reuters] By Muhannad Ayyash The US fears a free Palestine because it sees it as the beginning of its own end. Published On 6 May 2025 It has been 19 months now since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza. The International Court of Justice is investigating a “plausible genocide”, while the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli…

Yayha Saree addresses the crowd in Sana’a. (Photo: video grab) By Palestine Chronicle Staff Despite agreeing to halt operations against US vessels, Ansarallah vows to continue its response to Israel’s war on Gaza. A ceasefire agreement between Ansarallah and the United States does not include any provisions related to Israel, the Yemeni group clarified on Wednesday, indicating that its attacks on shipping will not cease entirely, Reuters news agency reported. Ansarallah’s chief negotiator, Mohammed Abdulsalam, told Reuters that the agreement is limited in scope and “does not include Israel in any way, shape or form.” “As long as they announced the…

Issued by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Cape Town (PSC) The Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Cape Town, unequivocally condemns the recent bomb threat made against Al-Azhar Mosque in District Six, accompanied by threats of violence directed at its worshippers. These acts are a direct attack on the sanctity and safety of places of worship and form part of a disturbing trend aimed at intimidating and silencing those who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and speak out against the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We call on the South African Police Services (SAPS)—from its highest structures, including the Provincial Commissioner of Police…

Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and the US president’s son, looks over the proposed plan ahead of the signing ceremony with Qatar’s Diar and Dar Global in Doha on April 30, 2025. [Photo by KARIM JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images] by Ziyad Motala In the annals of modern statecraft, there are few spectacles as garish, or as morally bankrupt, as the partnership between the Gulf monarchies and Donald Trump now serving his second term as President of the United States. These family dynasties, gilded in petro-wealth and at times draped in religious symbolism, have again proven that…

Hamas official Osama Hamdan in Istanbul on September 15, 2024 (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images) It has been 576 days since Israel initiated its genocidal war against the Palestinians of Gaza. The Gaza Strip, a territory roughly the size of Las Vegas, has been reduced to a moonscape of death and destruction with more than 90% of the population displaced multiple times. For more than two months, no food, water, medicine, supplies, fuel or anything has entered Gaza. That’s because Israel has imposed a full spectrum blockade as part of a stated policy to collectively punish the Palestinians…

By Hassen Lorgat We marched and toyi toyi’ d for this dayFor a long, long timeat home and wherever home wasMay Day is Ours We marched, sang and stormed their barricades- Demanding:8 hours to work!8 hours to rest8 hours to do what we want We were realistic and demanded the worldWe wanted bread..and roses too Deep down we believed/ We are ONE//ONE for ALL and ALL for ONE/An injury to ONE, is an injury to ALL t’was/ in  Chicago/ in 1886/When hundreds of thousands ironworkers//at McCormick Harvesting Machine Company if I recall//Steeled in struggle lit a spark that became May…

At 12:23 AM (local time) on 2 May 2025, a ship with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) was targeted with two armed drone strikes while in international waters off the coast of Malta – before even sailing to Gaza. The date of the attack marks two full months of Israel’s brutal total closure and blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has seen no aid enter since 2 March 2025, bringing Gaza into famine. Amidst a backdrop of global inaction, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesperson, stated that “[t]he international community has a choice – to keep scrolling through…

By Iqbal Jassat In his perceptive observation many may consider to be satire, Alon Mizrahi wrote that the fires raging in Israel “can be seen (if you have a soul and an imagination) as an act of resistance and rejection”, by “Palestinian communities who have been gone for decades but never abandoned, or forgotten, their homeland”. He explained that based on his personal experience, the groves and ‘forests’ consumed by fire, “don’t feel real”. Mizrahi wrote that having grown up next to one ‘forest’, and, without knowing anything about the history of Zionism, they always felt strange to him, but…

Ziyad Motala critiques William Gumede’s recent writings in The Sunday Times, arguing they promote Islamophobia and distort historical facts. Image: IOL / Ron AI By Ziyad Motala In the marketplace of ideas, there are merchants who peddle goods of substance, and then there are those who deal in illusions. William Gumede, judging by his recent writings, has committed himself resolutely to the latter vocation. In two recent contributions in the Sunday Times, “Africa played a major role in Christianity” (20 April 2025) and “South Africa must forge rapprochement with Israel” (27 April 2025), Gumede reveals himself not as a serious public intellectual,…

By Iqbal Jassat Has William Gumede adopted to be a “spokesperson” for the apartheid regime of Israel on a voluntary basis or is something more sinister afoot? His recent column “SA must forge rapprochment with Israel” (Sunday Times – April 27), suggests that he has completely missed the wood for the trees – either unwittingly or deliberately pushing an agenda that smacks of Israel’s playbook. The stance he promotes – apart from a narrative that obscures Israel’s colonial and apartheid status – also feeds into the outrageous demands by Helen Zille and her party, to wrest control of South Africa’s…