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Under the pretext of ‘self-defence’, Israel has systematically devastated Gaza: nearly 63,000 Palestinians killed, including more than 18,500 children; 2200 entire families erased; and civilian infrastructure reduced to rubble, and starvation. Photo: AP (March 2021)

Zionism’s modern atrocities echo the horrors of Nazism

The Holocaust should serve as a universal warning against genocide. Instead it is invoked to sanitise Israel’s persecution of Palestinians

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Palestinians have been persecuted ever since the formation of Israel.

Nakba 2.0: The catastrophe continues

Seventy-seven years ago hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their homes. Since then they remain under siege in the West Bank and Gaza, where 50,000 have been killed since 2023

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Wildfires in Israel. (X)

Fires ablaze in a stolen land: Israel’s trees planted over Palestinian villages are in flames

The genocidal state asks the West for help to fight the fires while its military burns children and adults alive in Gaza.

  • Eyaaz
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The first two months of the Israel-Gaza war exceeded the individual annual carbon footprints of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations. Photo: Fadi Alwhidi/Anadolu via Getty Images

Trump’s Gaza plan ignores justice, reality and history

This plan, dressed in the language of logistics or development, is unmistakably a manifestation of a hard-line agenda aimed at erasing Palestinian presence from the land

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA – NOVEMBER 6: People search through buildings, destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. The Israeli army has expanded its military assault. The Gaza strip, a besieged Palestinian territory, is under heavy bombing from Israel in response to the large-scale attack carried out on October 7 by Hamas in Israel. The international community is stepping up pressure for a humanitarian truce. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Israel’s ‘settler logic of elimination’

Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’

  • Umamah Bakharia
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António Guterres: European Commission (Christophe Licoppe)

António Guterrers, the man for our time

The secretary general of the United Nations is committed to peace, yet Israel in its war on Gaza and beyond chose to ban him

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People mourn as they collect the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli air raids. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

War on Gaza shows the bias of the ‘international community’

Over the past few weeks we have witnessed a disturbing trend of a collective blind eye being turned to history

  • Umamah Bakharia
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