In their support for Israel’s brutal bombardment in Gaza, Western powers and media have shown their true colours of hypocrisy and racism. The reverberations will be felt across the Arab and Muslim world, writes Khaled Al Hroub. “I have become ashamed before my students whom I have taught, over decades, …

Analysis: Syria has already witnessed surging violence this year, but Israel’s war on Gaza is threatening to bring further instability to the country. On 31 October, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen warned that the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip had already spilt over to Syria. Pedersen justified …

After a month of Israel’s indiscriminate war on besieged Gaza, Ahmed Saleh asks why Palestinians are stripped of their humanity, reflects on seven decades of colonisation and occupation, and mourns his friends taken too soon. This is a scathing elegy for Gaza. One where there is no room left to …