Middle East

For The Real News, I speak to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, a leading proponent of the BDS movement, about the movement’s recent major victories. Those victories include the decision [...]

B’nai Brith Canada is apoplectic, but for all the wrong reasons. On August 29, 2018, dozens of supporters of Palestinian human rights gathered across the street from B’nai Brith’s head [...]

Turkey is currently embroiled in a major economic crisis. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asserts that that crisis has resulted from an “economic war” being waged on Turkey by [...]

Last week, after being kidnapped by Israel’s navy in international waters and spending six days in an Israeli prison, Canadian human rights defender John Turnbull was released from [...]

Several days ago, indigenous activist Larry Commodore, who is from British Columbia, returned to Canada after being deported from Israel. Larry was a participant in the Freedom Flotilla, whose [...]

Yesterday, after Israeli forces hijacked Al Awda in international waters and assaulted some of its peaceful activists, I spoke by satellite phone to Canadian human rights activist John Turnbull, [...]

Earlier today, after Al Awda, the lead vessel of the Freedom Flotilla, was hijacked in international waters by the Israeli navy, I managed to speak to Ellen Hansson, a passenger on The Freedom, [...]

The Freedom Flotilla is hours away from being subjected to another act of piracy by Israel’s navy on the high seas. Just before the flotilla left Sicily for the final leg of its voyage to Gaza, I [...]

In Palermo, Sicily, during a break from intensive, non-violence training, I spoke to Freedom Flotilla crew member Mikkel Grüner, a Socialist member of the City Council of Bergen, Norway. Bergen [...]

In the port of Palermo, Sicily, I had the opportunity to speak with two Palestinian passengers of the Freedom Flotilla. Awni Farhat and Youssef Sammour are third-generation Palestinian refugees. [...]