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Israel's war on Gaza

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Why does Fifa refuse to sanction Israel?

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Palestinian lives have become background noise for internal Israeli power struggles

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The UK's failure to enforce a ban on trade with Israel's illegal settlements must end

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Columbia crackdown exposes universities as tools of imperial power

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Trump and Netanyahu want Palestinians to capitulate. They never will

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Another night of horror in Gaza, another day of global silence

12 days ago

Israel's Ramadan massacre obliterates any remaining western claims of moral leadership

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Netanyahu is bombing Gaza again to save his political life

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Can Lebanon's new government fix a broken nation?

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Snow White star Rachel Zegler celebrated for refusing to delete 'free Palestine' post

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Verdict holding Greenpeace liable for $660m called an 'attack' on free speech

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Thousands online react to detention of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

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'Utter carnage': Outrage over images of children killed in Israel's Gaza strikes

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Trump widely condemned for deploying 'Palestinian' as racial slur against Jewish senator

18 days ago

Furore in France over ad featuring Eiffel Tower in hijab

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Trump administration sparks outrage over arrest of Palestinian Columbia student

20 days ago

Use of AI to identify and deport pro-Palestinian students slammed online

24 days ago

BBC accused of violating own child protection guidelines in Gaza documentary

25 days ago

Former Israeli PM's speeches at Columbia, Harvard universities trigger backlash

26 days ago

Israelis mock Palestinian children in viral TikTok 'prank call' trend

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'No Other Land': Palestinian-Israeli film's Oscar win sparks outrage in Israel

28 days ago

UAE lobbying Trump administration to reject Arab League Gaza plan, officials say

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Exclusive: Gulf states linked to Israeli businesses on UN settlements blacklist

18 days ago

New Ofsted chair Hamid Patel said 'Trojan Horse' scandal alienated Muslims

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A weekend from hell in coastal Syria

21 days ago

What happens to the Middle East if Russia and the US stop being enemies?

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Displaced families in West Bank camps face Ramadan of 'humiliation and uncertainty'

23 days ago

Tunisian trial of alleged 'plot' against the state decried as travesty of justice

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Muawiya: The Ramadan series about an early Islamic ruler that's causing a stir

28 days ago

The Belgian 'justice machine' pursuing Israeli soldiers worldwide for Gaza war crimes

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Exclusive: Egyptian firm charges commercial trucks entering Gaza $20,000 in 'bribes'

1 month ago

Exclusive: British Muslim Network backed by charity set up by former archbishop Welby

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Is the ceasefire in Gaza on the verge of breakdown?

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Revealed: How the UK continued selling arms after Yemen massacre

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Are Arab dissidents facing a new wave of repression?

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Eyes were wet with tears, children cried. The long walk home to northern Gaza

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What made Benjamin Netanyahu?

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They won the war. Can Syria's new leaders rebuild the country?

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In search of a coherent Labour policy on Gaza

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Is it a fake? The mystery of the last Ottoman caliph's secret plan

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The Message: How Palestine changed Ta-Nehisi Coates's view of justice

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Francesca Albanese: 'International law is on a knife's edge' over Gaza inaction

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Israel's war on Lebanon

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How the Axis of Resistance is shaping the Middle East

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Gaza awakes to a 'bloody suhoor' as Israel stages Ramadan massacre

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How Israel repeatedly violated the Gaza ceasefire before breaking it completely

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Families of Israeli captives furious over resumption of war on Gaza

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'One of the most terrifying nights of the war'

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Israel unleashes bloody Gaza bombardment, killing hundreds and breaking truce

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Palestinians unearth fresh wounds as Gaza's al-Shifa hospital burials are relocated

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Egypt and Jordan welcome Trump U-turn on expelling Gaza's Palestinians

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Turkey blocking Israel-Nato military drills until permanent Gaza truce

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'He was still a child': Grief and fear at Latakia hospital

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Syrian Alawis sheltering in Lebanon say it isn't safe to return home

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Turkey cautiously optimistic about Syria's deal with the Kurds

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Landmark SDF deal hailed as positive step for Syria and Kurds

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Syria reveals new religiously diverse interim government

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US offering conditional partial sanctions relief in Syria: Report

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Israel launches deadly attack on southern Syria amid troop build-up

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'My intestines were outside my body': Israel's deliberate targeting of Lebanese healthcare workers

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Israeli settlers storm purported rabbi's shrine in Lebanon

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Lebanon bids farewell to the Nasrallah era

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US proposes deploying military contractors in bid to make Israel leave Lebanon

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Israeli air strikes target southern Beirut

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Lebanon: Hundreds of thousands attend Hassan Nasrallah's funeral

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Hamas leader killed in Israeli strike on south Lebanon

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Israeli gunfire kills woman in south Lebanon border town

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Key Coca-Cola and Pepsi ingredient 'controlled by RSF paramilitary in Sudan'

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UK enrages Sudanese army government by inviting UAE to London conference

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Sudan's biggest self-described 'jihadi' group says it will disband once RSF defeated

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How Trump's assault on USAID 'will lead to surging mortality' in Sudan

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Sudan launches case against UAE at ICJ over 'complicity in genocide'

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Unicef says children as young as one have been raped during Sudan's war

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'You can't see it. You can't shoot it': Turkey's drones boost Sudanese army against RSF

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How the RSF's parallel government could divide Sudan - and Africa

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'We've come back from hell': Sudanese jubilant after army retakes Khartoum from RSF

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Sudanese army takes control of airport, forcing RSF out of central Khartoum

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Scores killed in Sudanese army attack on Darfur market, war monitor says

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Israel's war on Gaza: What are crimes against humanity?

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Israel's war on Gaza: The meaning of genocide

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International law explained: What are genocide and war crimes?

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Betar: Who is the far-right Jewish-American group calling for 'blood in Gaza?'

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Did Israel round up women and children after 7 October as bargaining chips?

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Holding Israel accountable: What is The Hague Group?

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Donald Trump's Gaza plan: Ethnic cleansing or crime against humanity?

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Eid al-Fitr 2025: When is it and everything else you need to know

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Berlinale 2025: 'Khartoum' stands out amidst tepid Middle Eastern offerings

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American fascism: Sue Coe's new book fails to realise Trump is not an aberration

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Who was Ibn Arabi? The medieval Sufi master of Damascus

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Progressive except for Palestine: Berlinale 2025 and the politics of omission

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'No Other Land': Israeli-Palestinian film wins Oscar for best documentary feature

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'No Other Land' captures the Palestinian spirit but falls short on Israeli society

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Ramadan 2025: When does it start and everything else you need to know

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How a murky security crackdown in Egypt snuffed out South Sinai's hiking economy

1 month ago

'I'm not German, I'm not Syrian. I'm in between': Shkoon on uniting Arab and western musical culture

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'Get In': The plot involving a pro-Israel Irishman that helped Keir Starmer to power

1 month ago

Cartoonist Joe Sacco on Gaza: Is this land ground zero for the apocalypse?

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Being Jewish after Gaza: Peter Beinart's 'reckoning' is a bid to rehabilitate Zionism

1 month ago

Remembering Ahmed Adaweyah: The mutinous voice of Egypt's working class

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Netflix's Mo season two: A case of diminishing returns

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Life and death in the West Bank: Dutch-Palestinian photographer Sakir Khader's first solo show

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Omar El Akkad: 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'

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'In a dictatorship, metaphors can save you': The poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun

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The Brutalist: What this Oscar contender really says about the American Dream and Israel

2 months ago

'Banality of evil': Artist turns Gaza settler dream into disturbing installation

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Netanyahu commits 'a bloodbath in Gaza' to save himself

12 days ago

Hamas expects another war with Israel - this time in the West Bank

2 months ago

Netanyahu's total victory narrative has collapsed

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The Muslim senator who took on Australia's government

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Palestinians must audition for 'our own humanity'

3 months ago

The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad's nightmare

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Trump's intrusive demons and Israel's 'enlightened cause'

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Americans 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism

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Jill Stein: 'The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves'

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Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism

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'He was sent by God': Talking to Trump supporters about Israel

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The untold history of the Israeli Defence Forces

5 months ago

White supremacy & complicity: How the West enables Israel's war on Gaza | Pankaj Mishra

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Inside Trump's crackdown on Columbia University | Bruce Robbins

10 days ago

This Jewish academic shared an anti-Zionist post. She was then fired | Maura Finkelstein

22 days ago

How Jewish scholars are attacked in America for calling out Gaza genocide | Raz Segal

28 days ago

Trump, tariffs and Brics: Why the US is in trouble | Richard D Wolff

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'Dictatorial power': How Elon Musk is taking over the MAGA movement | Rick Perlstein

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'A war on children': Doctor tells of harrowing experience in Gaza | Victoria Rose

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'If you're an Arab journalist, you're political': Western media & Gaza | Hind Hassan

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How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

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What exactly happened in Syria's 13-year civil war

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Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

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Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

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Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

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Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

6 months ago

Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

8 months ago

Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

8 months ago

In Trump's new order, anyone can become Palestinian

14 days ago

Why Trump's team is negotiating with Hamas

18 days ago

Israel can ban all the films it wants. The Palestinian voice cannot be silenced

20 days ago

Trump's Gaza takeover plan is dead. Will he let Israel drag him into endless war?

20 days ago

How Netanyahu's alliance with the far right could be Israel's undoing

21 days ago

Cairo summit: US-Israeli rejection of the Arab Gaza plan is a moment of truth

26 days ago

Syria must put an end to Israel's incursions - and fast

1 month ago

Gaza has survived for thousands of years. It cannot be erased by Trump and Israel

1 month ago

Gaza transfer plan: The banality of ethnic cleansing

1 month ago

From South Africa to Palestine: Trump's war to defend apartheid

1 month ago

How Trump and Netanyahu forced Mohammed bin Salman to draw a line on Palestine

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Why Israel cannot tolerate Palestinian expressions of joy, anger and grief

1 month ago

Gaza is a Palestinian homeland, not Trump's luxury resort

12 days ago

Israel's use of AI in Gaza is a terrifying model coming to a country near you

2 months ago

Gaza ceasefire: The Palestinian spirit will never be broken

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Gaza ceasefire: After 15 months of brutality, Israel has failed on every front

2 months ago

Grooming gangs: This vile racist campaign puts Muslims in serious danger

2 months ago

Op-Ed video: Who is the real threat to British democracy?

2 months ago

Op-Ed video: 'It's not complex, it's simple. What's happening in Gaza is morally wrong'

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Op-Ed video: 'Palestinians are eating animal feed, that's why we're airdropping aid'

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