By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 1 August 2025 (IDN) — The war crimes perpetrated by the Netanyahu government against Palestinians have seriously harmed Jews around the world, as many Jewish leaders not only remained silent in the wake of these crimes, but also actively tried to silence critics of Israel’s war crimes. Although a […]
‘Moral Injury’: Murdered in Gaza, Disappeared in America
By Abba Solomon* SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA | 30 July 2025 (IDN) — Moral injury is the social, psychological, and spiritual harm that arises from a betrayal of one’s core values, such as justice, fairness, and loyalty “Moral Injury” — Psychology Today, emphasis added. I became interested in the term “moral injury” when I read of […]
French-Saudi UN Initiative: Awakening the International Community
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 27 July 2025 (IDN) — Hamas’ savage October 2023 attack and Israel’s horrific war of retaliation have reignited the call for a two-state solution. I applaud the joint French-Saudi UN initiative in support of a two-state solution in the hope that it will awaken the international community and end […]
From Ceylon to Palestine: Ethnic Conflict and Its Role in Cold War Proxy Dynamics – Part Two
This is the second of a two-part series. Click here to read part one By Darini Rajasingham Senanayake* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 24 July 2025 (IDN) — There are remarkable patterns of history, organised violence, and Disinformation between events leading to the pogrom and forced population displacements in Sri Lanka in 1983, and British occupied […]
Sri Lanka’s 1983 Nakba: Did ‘Ethnic Conflict’ Research Conceal the Role of Cold War Proxy Wars in the Global South? — Part One
This is the first of a two-part series. By Darini Rajasingham Senanayake* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 23 July 2025 (IDN) — Was the same Playbook to unmake Multiculturalism and stage the Palestine Nakba (catastrophe) for the violent birth of Israel in May 1948 used years later in the July 1983 pogrom and staged riots in […]
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By Charles Glass* FLORENCE, Italy | 23 July 2025 (IDN) — Omar El Akkad, an Egyptian-born journalist, had studied in the United States and worked as a journalist for 10 years when, in the summer of 2021, he became an American citizen. Covering the War on Terror in Afghanistan and at the U.S. detention centre […]
An Open Letter to the Israelis: Rise and Save the Soul of Your Country
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 18 July 2025 (IDN) — I appeal to every Israeli—you have become the victims of deceptive and morally repugnant leaders who have systematically betrayed you by pursuing their treacherous messianic agenda while committing in your name heinous crimes against humanity, shocking the conscience of every human being. I beg […]
I Refuse to Defend the Indefensible
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 25 June 2025 (IDN) — Israel’s refusal to acknowledge Palestinian rights and humanity perpetuated a zero-sum narrative where Jewish safety is predicated on Palestinian dehumanisation and death Israel’s and the US’s attack against Iran’s nuclear installations and the still-unfolding repercussions of these attacks, following the ceasefire brokered by Trump, […]
How the US and Israel Used Rafael Grossi to Hijack the IAEA and Start a War on Iran
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 23 June 2025 (IDN) — Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), allowed the IAEA to be used by the United States and Israel—an undeclared nuclear weapons state in long-term violation of IAEA rules—to manufacture a pretext for war on […]
“Success Leads Many Astray to Their Ruin”
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 22 June 2025 (IDN) — The ancient quote from the Greek philosopher Phaedrus, to not let success go to one’s head and inflating one’s ego, which can lead to terrible failure, is a timeless warning to Trump and Netanyahu. Having tested the sweetness of Israel’s impressive success in destroying […]
