By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 5 January 2024 (IDN) — South Africa’s case against Israel, that will go before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 11-12, is being backed by Turkey and Malaysia, along with a coalition of non-governmental and human rights organizations. But it is expected to gather wider support before […]
In Pursuit of Eliminating Hamas, Israel Might Bring Forth Something Worse
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA | 3 January 2023 (IDN) — After futile attempts by others to get the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of genocide against the parties in the war in Gaza, South Africa raised the […]
South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide in UN’s Top Court
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 1 January 2024 (IDN) — Acting under the Genocide Convention, South Africa has made the first challenge worldwide against Israel charging genocide. The case was submitted to the UN’s International Court of Justice. In an 84-page application, South Africa claimed that “acts and omissions by Israel […]
President Biden: Learn the Names of Children You’ve Helped Israel to Murder
Following is the letter Norman Solomon* wrote to President Joe Biden on 26 December 2023. SAN FRANCISCO | 29 December 2023 (IDN) — You’ve often spoken of how much you care about children and how terrible it is when they’re murdered. “Too many schools, too many everyday places have become killing fields,” you said at […]
Netanyahu Must Go Before He Causes Further Irreversible Harm to Israel
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 21 December 2023 (IDN) — Prime Minister Netanyahu is accused of betraying his oath of office, and the litany of his mishaps and acts of corruption make him a dangerous liability to Israel. He must leave office now before he inflicts further irreparable harm on top of the […]
One State Out of Israel and Palestine Could be the Solution
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 19 December 2023 (IDN) — It’s almost unbelievable that 106 years have passed since the Balfour Declaration when the British colonial government decided to give the Jews their own homeland- but also promised that “it be done without infringing on the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish […]
The Suicidal Fallout of a Nuclear Attack in the Middle East
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 16 December 2023 (IDN) — When a junior minister proposed dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza as “one way of dealing with the threat of Hamas”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instantly shot down the proposal and took the unusual step of suspending the politically far-right minister. Netanyahu’s swift […]
Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCSCO 15 December 2023 (IDN) — Top American officials in the “national security” establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During […]
The Current Netanyahu-Led Government Was Born in Sin
By Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK 15 December 2023 (IDN) — From the first day the current Netanyahu-led coalition government was formed, it was preoccupied with its corrupt domestic agenda and perilously intensified the conflict with the Palestinians, and prompted Hamas to commit the unfathomable savage butchery of 1,200 Israelis The unspeakable savagery that Hamas […]
Exposed—The Callous Inhumanity of ‘Ertez Yisrael’
By Seevali Abeysekera* LONDON | 14 December 2023 (IDN) — When on 7 October, Hamas fighters broke out of the open-air prison called Gaza and breached the previously impregnable border that Israel had built in order to suffocate the Palestinians, little did the world realise that within a few short weeks, Israel would finally reveal […]