Category: 6. Opinion

Every person on this earth has a special mission. The journey begins with searching for an answer to the question of knowing the secret of their existence. Some succeed in discovering this early, others late, and many never at all. 

I believe I have recently found mine. I didn’t know it would weigh so heavily on my heart and mind, but for over a year now, I have carried it out—because it is worth it.

Most of my neighbors, friends, and family with whom I share memories and…

Siargao seems like the most unlikely place where the ongoing genocide in Gaza might enter public discourse. A small island in the Philippines’ Mindanao region, it is best known as a top international surfing destination. It has a reputation for being laid-back, slow-paced, and largely tolerant of the influx of outsiders despite the rapid changes they have brought to island life. In the past several months, things have changed.  

In mid-2024, as the genocide in Gaza intensified,…

The battle for the legacy of Charlie Kirk continued this week with the publication of a long letter from the late evangelical activist to Benjamin Netanyahu last May. Kirk professes love for Israel and the Jewish people, then warns Netanyahu that Israel is getting “CRUSHED” on social media in the United States over charges of “apartheid” and “genocide” but suggests how an active p.r. campaign can undo those losses. 

Israel advocates, including the financier Bill…

As recent reports have shown, the Global Sumud Flotilla was illegally intercepted by Israeli occupation forces in international waters, sparking outrage across the world. In response, dockworkers’ unions have called for a national strike on Friday, October 3. Against this backdrop, the slogan “Globalize the Intifada” has echoed across protests and demonstrations worldwide, becoming a rallying cry for those who see in the Palestinian struggle a universal fight against…

There is an infamous story about AIPAC that has been illustrative for decades. In late 1992, during the lame duck period as George H.W. Bush was readying to cede the Oval Office to President-elect Bill Clinton, AIPAC’s President David Steiner resigned after being caught on tape boasting about having pressured Bush into giving more aid to Israel and that AIPAC had many people “inside” the incoming Clinton administration.

In those days, AIPAC was much more committed to…

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the United Nations Charter being adopted, which has become the foundation of the United Nations itself and our international law framework.

The Charter emphasizes the universal nature of human rights, the exercise of self-determination, and global peace.

Following the defeat of fascism in 1945, the UN Charter fueled the emergence of a new international moral order which established the primacy of multilateralism, diplomacy and peaceful…

In a few weeks’ time, Australia’s Federal Court will hold the first sessions of what promises to be a protracted hate speech trial against my colleague John Keane and me. John and I are academics at the University of Sydney and long-term supporters of Palestine. Our opponents allege that our advocacy against the genocide and for justice for Palestinians is motivated by antisemitism and so constitutes hate speech under Australia’s Racial Discrimination Act. The case is important…

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” – Toni Morrison

The recognition of the State of Palestine is not a gesture of solidarity—it is my enemy. Most Palestinians disagree with a two-state solution, which is what all the recent moves to recognize a Palestinian state are contingent on. It is only the Palestinian Authority (PA) elite, who continue to subcontract the Israeli colonial regime, who embrace this recognition in order to fulfill their role in a…

“This is my most important meeting,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

He was not referring to his long, rambling, and incoherent address to the United Nations, but to the meeting he later held with Arab and Muslim leaders from around the world at which he presented what he is calling his “21-Point Plan” for ending the Israeli onslaught on Gaza.

Leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Türkiye, Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan…

Editor’s Note: The following is the seventh in a series of articles co-published by Mondoweiss and the Transnational Institute that places Palestine in the long trajectory of anti-colonial struggles, from Haiti to Vietnam to Algeria and South Africa.

This article is based on a chapter in the upcoming collective book “Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation”, edited by Raouf Farah and Suraya Dadoo, and to be published by Pluto Press in early…