The national priority of testing weapons on Palestinians

The national priority of testing weapons on Palestinians

My book, The Palestine Laboratory, was recently released in Italy. Here’s a wonderful review in MicroMega, a publication that describes itself as “the most important Italian magazine of cultural and political deepening for many years.” It’s written by the journalist Christian Elia, the editor of the recent book by Francesca Albanese, J’accuse. “Laboratorio Palestina”: l’esportazione…

The sordid connection between Israel and South Sudan

The National publishes my following investigative feature (PDFs of the cover story:… cover.sudan… and… spread.sudan): The squalid guest house sits alongside a main road in South Sudan. Every night migrants arrive but few of them stay very long. They’re mostly men from Eritrea or Ethiopia who have fled racism and imprisonment in Israel looking for a better future.…

Punishing migrants is a sure way towards greater unrest

My weekly Guardian column: Surely bombing yet another Muslim country is a mistake. But that’s exactly what Italian foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni has called for – attacks on Islamic State (Isis) positions in Libya to stem the flow of refugees streaming into Europe. Calls for tough action, like Gentiloni’s, are growing in response to refugees…

Destroying Euro ghettos and pushing the problem elsewhere

Europe’s growing anti-immigration racism reminds us of dark periods in the continent’s history: “These are dark-skinned people [Roma], not Europeans like you and me,” said Riccardo De Corato, who is Milan’s vice mayor from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling party and who is in charge of handling the camps. He later added: “Our final goal…

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