The cracks in Israel’s edifice of apartheid
This week, after the announcement of a ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza, I spoke with Zain Raza of Germany’s AcTVism Munich about the trajectory of Israel’s war on Gaza. [...]
This week, after the announcement of a ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza, I spoke with Zain Raza of Germany’s AcTVism Munich about the trajectory of Israel’s war on Gaza. [...]
Since October 7, 2023, Canadian-Palestinian artist and educator Rehab Nazzal has been in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. On November 22, 2023, Rehab spoke with me about current conditions in [...]
On Dr. David Kattenburg’s Green Planet Monitor, Professor Radhika Desai and I talked about the increasingly aggressive efforts of Western governments to suppress criticisms of their foreign [...]
On November 9, 2023, I delivered a speech to anti-apartheid protesters at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) about the humanitarian catastrophe that Israel has created in Gaza. I argued [...]
(This is the second part of a two-part article on Israel’s looming defeat. Part 1 can be read here.) Israel is vulnerable to military defeat After the devastating attacks of October 7, many [...]
On November 7, 2023 in Montreal, CEO Catherine Tait of Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, gave a speech on the threats to the CBC’s “independent journalism”. During [...]
From its founding in 1948, Israel has gotten away with murder. It has systematically flouted the laws of war. It has violated relentlessly the sovereignty of its neighbours, even going so far as [...]
This past weekend, I spoke with American documentary filmmaker Regis Tremblay about Israel’s latest war on Gaza. I explained to Regis the basis of my view that Israel is essentially a huge [...]
On October 24, 2023, I travelled from Beirut to areas of south Lebanon bordering on Israel. After stopping in Qana (which is the subject of a separate report I published yesterday), I visited the [...]
On October 24, 2023, as Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continued to exchange fire in south Lebanon, I returned to the Lebanon-Israel border. This was my second visit to the border since I [...]
On October 22, 2023, while visiting the border between Israel and Lebanon, I spoke with the Abbas Diab, the President of the Lebanese village of Taybeh. Taybeh lies two kilometres from the border [...]
Today, as the death toll soared in Gaza, clashes intensified on the Lebanon-Israel border. Hezbollah announced the death of five more militants, sparking anger in southern Lebanon. The killing of [...]
On October 21, 2023, shortly after Western governments urged their nationals to leave Lebanon immediately, I reported from Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon. I discussed the [...]
On Cross Talk, I joined former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and political analyst Marwa Osman to discuss the cataclysmic events in the Middle East. I argued that Biden’s panicked visit to Tel Aviv [...]
On October 16, 2023, Consortium News held a roundtable discussion about the Global Greens and their theoretical commitment to peace. I participated in the discussion, along with Australian [...]
On October 17, 2023, an airstrike destroyed Gaza’s Al-Ahli hospital. The strike appears to have been carried out by Israel’s military. It killed many medical personnel and hundreds of [...]
In 2015, Palestinian-Canadian artist Rehab Nazzal was shot by an Israeli sniper in occupied Bethlehem. She was targeted while peacefully photographing an Israeli ‘skunk-truck’ that [...]
In 2006, one year after Israel initiated its cruel blockade of Gaza, Israeli academic Ilan Pappé accused Israel of having launched an “incremental genocide” in Gaza. In so doing, Dr. [...]