Zionism

The wonder of imperial feminism

By Susan Abulhawa When I was a little girl, like many women of my generation who grew up watching American television shows (even if they were dubbed in Arabic), I used to twirl and twirl, trying to attain super powers like Wonder Woman. I would twitch my nose to magically[…]

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Never forget the Nakba

OPINION by Ibrahim Vawda As Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (approximately 66% of Palestinian population worldwide) enter the 70th  year of forced displacement from, and within, their ancestral homeland, Israel continues to create intolerable living conditions which further swell the number of displaced Palestinians. This ongoing Nakba (‘catastrophe’) is[…]

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Palestinian Media Forum kicks off

Hundreds of journalists have gathered in Istanbul this week to participate in the second Palestine Media Forum to discuss the media’s role in reporting on the Palestinian issue. The conference is being held over a two day period which marks the 100 year anniversary since the Sykes-Picot agreement also known as[…]

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How the incompetence of BDS-SA has promoted Zionism in SA

OPINION by STEVEN FRIEDMAN The country is ours, where the self-importance of the solidarity movement glosses over the fact that its successes are limited to one successful, never repeated, march two years ago. The movement’s most visible face, BDS SA, seems to have largely given up on the society, focussing[…]

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Zionism is the problem, not Hamas

OPINION by Ebrahim Vawda It is true that Israel has not introduced gas chambers into Palestinian towns and villages. However, Israel has been killing and tormenting Palestinians since 1948 in a multiplicity of ways which, in their brutality and sheer evil, don’t really differ in substance from Nazi behaviour. Moreover,[…]

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De-Zionising the US empire

OPINION by Hamid Dabashi – United States President Barack Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal at American University on August 5 marks a decisive feature in his Obama Doctrine that one might venture to call and consider “de-Zionising the American empire”. Does this speech, and a whole array of[…]

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Time For Urgency To Confront Zionist Racism

OPINION by Iqbal Jassat As much as it may be argued that major global media outlets share a bias in favour of Israel, current trends reveal a gradual shift in this position. Amongst the large corporate media that has a worldwide footprint, it was unthinkable that Israel would ever receive[…]

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The end of the liberal Zionist façade

OPINION by Neve Gordon – Benjamin Netanyahu is truly a magician. Just this past Friday, most polls indicated that his Likud party would likely receive around 21 seats in the Israeli Knesset, four seats less than Yitzhak (Bougie) Herzog’s Zionist Camp (Labor Party’s new name). Revelations of corruption at the[…]

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