By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, Georgia | 12 August 2024 (IDN) — At a carnival or county fair the chances are you’ll be accosted by a huckster with a shell game—“Step right up—try your luck!” It’s a game of distraction, and you’re a sucker if you think you can beat the quick fingers of the […]
Netanyahu Is Dragging Israel Down on His Catastrophic Journey to Hell
By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK | 6 August 2024 (IDN) — Israel has never faced the kind of horrific state in which it currently finds itself since its establishment in 1948. It is hard to fathom how an Israeli prime minister would risk the very existence of the millennia-old dream of Jewish statehood only to […]
Gaza War: The Smearing of Cori Bush for Being Truthful
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 1 August 2024 (IDN) — Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Congresswoman Cori Bush under a headline declaring that “anti-Israel comments make her unfit for reelection.” The piece appeared in the newspaper with the second-largest readership in Missouri, the Kansas City […]
Free Speech on Campuses Needs to be Protected, not Attacked, say UN Human Rights Experts
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 29 July 2024 (IDN) — When the Israeli-Hamas conflict kept escalating in Gaza, so did the largely non-violent protests and demonstrations in American campuses—both with pro-Israeli but mostly pro-Palestinian protestors. But one of the biggest and long-drawn-out demonstrations was at Columbia University in New York—a prestigious Ivy League University—which […]
A Certified Genocidaire Visits Washington
By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, Georgia | 23 July 2024 (IDN) — Tomorrow, 24 July, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under indictment for crimes of fraud in his own country and a certified genocidaire in the eyes of much of the world, will be enthusiastically welcomed to speak to the US Congress and meet President […]
Netanyahu is Expected to Spew Lies and Distortions in His Address to Congress
By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK | 22 July 2024 (IDN) — On July 24, Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress thoroughly prepared to spew a litany of lies and distortion regarding the truth of what precipitated Hamas’ attack, why he is so vehemently against the establishment of a Palestinian state, and why Iran […]
Biden’s Inadvertent Contribution to the Unfolding Horror in Gaza
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 20 July 2024 (IDN) — With the best of intentions, President Biden allowed his unwavering commitment to Israel’s security to not only prolong the tragically horrific war in Gaza and severely taint America’s international moral standing, but also potentially miss a historic opportunity to help bring the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
A New Battle Front in Gaza: Israel vs UNRWA
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 18 July 2024 (IDN) — The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is the only agency of the world body which focuses solely on humanitarian assistance to millions of Palestinian refugees—and more so, during the current military conflict between Israel and Hamas. But as the […]
Gaza’s War and US Arms Call for Investigation of Complicity in Genocide
By P I Gomes The writer is former Ambassador of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the European Union and ACP Group of States, Brussels. PORT OF SPAIN | 10 July 2024 (IDN) —The relentless bombardment of Gaza, the slaughter of Palestinian civilians, mainly women and children, in Rafah continued at an intensified level by […]
Cooperating With Iran’s President-elect Pezeshkian Will Far Outweigh the Risks
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 9 July 2024 (IDN) — The election of the reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as Iran’s president augurs well for the Iranian people and for relations between the West and Iran. With the best intentions, Pezeshkian may not be able to deliver on all his foreign and domestic agenda; nevertheless, it […]