Last year I was asked by New York publisher St. Martin’s Press to read and endorse a book, about to now be released, by Amir Ahmad Nasr called My Isl@m. It’s an interesting read about Muslims, rejecting fundamentalism in all ways and being open to a more inclusive religious belief. Here’s the book’s website and…
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Bravo Nathan Blanc, Israeli conscientious objector
More here on this incredible 19-year-old Israeli man. If only there were many more like him.
Easter in occupied, Palestinian Bethlehem
Life in occupied Palestine can be tough for students just trying to live daily life. I regularly publish the writings of… Brother Peter Bray, the Vice Chancellor of Bethlehem University (see here) and the following is his latest missive: Easter Sunday 31 March 2013 I greet you again from this holy city of Jerusalem where we…
CIA criminality rewarded not punished
A classic case of America’s establishment protecting its own (via the Washington Post). It’s why the United State’s constant claims of “spreading democracy” around the world hasn’t even started at home: As John Brennan moved into the CIA director’s office this month, another high-level transition was taking place down the hall. A week earlier, a…
If I ruled the world
I was asked by Osman Faruqi, editor of the University of New South Wales student newspaper Tharunka, to write a column: The role of the US hegemony is over. Washington no longer controls the world by charm and force. It’s a multipolar planet with countless centres of power. Wouldn’t this be something to celebrate? In…
Daily brutality in Syria’s Aleppo
Remarkable footage by German filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen for Britain’s Channel 4:
Noam Chomsky delivers 2013 Edward Said lecture in London
On 18th March, Chomsky spoke on, “Violence and Dignity – Reflections on the Middle East”:
US-trained death squads in Iraq are our legacy
A remarkable documentary, by the Guardian and BBC Arabic, on the role of US-funded death squads in Iraq via torture skills honed in Latin America during the “dirty wars“. Powerful, explicit and brutal (though there are critics), such films are essential to challenge the spurious argument that the war was anything to do with freedom…
Two-state solution in Palestine dead, buried and cremated
Last year I co-edited a book with Ahmed Moor called After Zionism (re-issued this week with an updated introduction). It’s about the one-state solution and the reasons this outcome is the most just for both Israelis and Palestinians. This piece in Salon discusses, after Barack Obama’s visit to Israel and Palestine last week, the illusion…