Category: 1. Palestine

By Jeremy Salt

‘Too little too late’ is true but ‘never too late’ is also true. Governments and individual politicians still have time to show some spine by standing up to Israel.

“If this new attitude taken by western leaders is designed to fend off a reckoning, then it’s too little, too late.” So wrote Nesrine Malik in the Guardian recently, speaking of the announcement by the UK, France,…

A United States trade court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s global reciprocal tariffs are illegal, finding that the president overstepped his authority by imposing the import levies last month. Wednesday’s ruling could throw Trump’s sweeping trade policies into disarray, experts say.

The Court of International Trade in New York ruled that an emergency law invoked by Trump during his “Liberation Day” announcement in April does not give him unilateral authority to impose…

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s administration will “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students studying in the country.

The move comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to crack down on international students attending universities in the US, and at a time when Washington and Beijing are trying to negotiate a trade deal to end a spiralling tariff war between the world’s two largest…

Cholera outbreak is centred around the capital city, Khartoum, which has been devastated by more than two years of war.

A cholera outbreak in Sudan’s Khartoum has killed at least 70 people in two days, local health authorities said.

The health ministry in Khartoum state reported on Thursday 942 new infections and 25 deaths the previous day, following 1,177 cases and 45 deaths the day before.

The outbreak is centred around the capital city, Khartoum, which has been devastated by more than…

By Iqbal Jassat

Will Trump live up to his “transactional” reputation to leverage military aid and halt the atrocities? That is the question we need to pose.

While there appears to be tension between US President Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu over differences in the Zionist regime’s war goals against the Islamic Republic of Iran, does it absolve the American empire of the horrendous genocide in Gaza?

Despite official claims of leniency, the Israeli army continues to imprison soldiers unwilling to participate in operations in Gaza.

Two Israeli soldiers from the Nahal Brigade have been sentenced to 15 and 20 days in military prison for refusing to redeploy to the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media. 

Despite previous statements by the Israeli army claiming it would not jail soldiers over such refusals, the…