Ahmed al-Sharaa’s first year in power bodes ill for Syria’s future
Ahmed al-Sharaa in Moscow, 2025. Photo by Sergey Bobylev/TASS/Wikimedia Commons. Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former Islamist commander linked to al-Qaeda factions, toppled Syria’s long-...
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It is Israel that must be deradicalized, not Palestine
Photo by Thierry Ehrmann The recent recognitions of a Palestinian state and the October 10 ceasefire have been followed by a flurry of calls to “deradicalize” Palestinian society. The New…
A graveyard of liberal illusions
An aerial view showing destruction in Rafah, Gaza. Photo by Ashraf Amra/UNWRA. Cometh the hour, cometh the politicians Back in February, Canadian-American novelist and journalist Omar A...
For the Palestinian people, it is one minute to midnight: Canada must radically change its approach
Displaced Palestinians walk through the rubble of Gaza. Photo by Jaber Jehad Badwan/Wikimedia Commons. The people of Gaza had been under bombardment for nearly 20 months, experiencing terror, di...
Chris Hedges: the last days of Gaza
“The Last Piece.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are…
The shame of what we’ve done
Ruins of the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo by Muhammad Sabah. The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redem...
The shame of what we’ve done
Displaced Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025. Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa. The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and ...
Forced disappearances in Kandahar show need for Canadian Afghanistan Papers
Canadian troops arrive at Kandahar airfield on March 8, 2002. Photo by Stephen J. Thorne. Last month, the Globe and Mail published an article about “enforced disappearances” of Afghan pr...
Chris Hedges: Genocide is the new normal
“And So Castles Made of Sand.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality…
Attempt to censor Francesca Albanese part of larger Israeli campaign to hobble UN
Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, briefs reporters at UN headquarters. Photo by Loey Felipe/United Nations. ...
The state of our moral disengagement
Palestinians stand amid the ruins of the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo by Mohammed Hajjar/AP. A US-made precision-guided bomb manufactured by Boeing shreds a little girl and renders her body…
Our dead don’t seem to count the same way
The Great Mosque of Gaza in the late nineteenth century. Photo by Maison Bonfils/Library of Congress. The discrepancy between Western framing of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza has often…
As the JNF continues its rampage in the West Bank, CRA ruling offers Palestinians hope
In June, the Israeli government approved plans for five new settlements in the West Bank, including the Nahal Heletz settlement, flanking the UNESCO heritage site and Palestinian village of Battir,…
States of exception
Stripped, blindfolded, and bound Palestinian civilians are taken prisoner and ordered into a line by Israeli occupation forces in Gaza in December 2023. Photo from a social media post by…
Chris Hedges: the old evil
“Which Genocide Are You On?” Illustration by Mr. Fish. It comes back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like Israeli armoured personnel carriers,…
Lancet: 186,000 Palestinians or more killed in Gaza
Peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet has just published an article “conservatively” estimating that the death toll from Israel’s assault on Gaza could be 186,000 people or more. Photo by Humberto…
One-year-old Ahmad Al-Najjar was beheaded by Israel—with a US bomb
Palestinians observe the destruction caused by the attacks of Israeli army on tents of displaced Palestinians living near the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warehouses…
You can’t turn back the clock on genocide
Black smoke rises in Gaza in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike. Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images. As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital…
Israel’s tent camp massacre in Rafah is a heinous war crime
The camp on fire after the strike. Photo courtesy Reuters TV. On the night of May 26, Israeli forces pounded a tent camp housing displaced people in a designated safe…
Chris Hedges: Israel’s willing executioners
“When You’re Smiling.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. Run, the Israelis demand, run for your lives. Run from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City, the way you ran from…