Americans: facing the world and facing ourselves
Lawrence Davidson explains why most Americans "neither see themselves as others see them nor look honestly into their own faces", and in consequence, "are led to collectively act in self-destructive...
View ArticleAnti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
Lawrence Davidson doubts that US leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behaviours behind the Muslim anger displayed following the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of...
View ArticleFreedom of speech: insults, incitement and Islam
Graham Peebles argues that the rage against the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” must not distract us from discussing the filmmakers’ intention and the underlying causes of anger among Muslims
View ArticleWhy US media is biased against Arabs and Muslims
Jamal Kanj says lopsided Western media coverage of the Arab and Muslim worlds is rooted not just in cultural biases but in the fact that journalists are sometimes part of Israel’s military.
View ArticleAhmad al-Qabbanji, brave Islamic scholar
If it is hard nowadays to find an ordinary practising Muslim who is able to exercise his critical faculties and willing to embrace the modern world, you would have thought it would be impossible to...
View ArticleBetraying Americans for Israel
US senators – Democrats and Republicans – acting on behalf of Israel are pushing through legislation allowing the Israeli government to engage in racial, ethnic and religious discrimination against...
View ArticleAlan Hart and what it takes to struggle on
Lawrence Davidson argues that far from being lost, the Palestinian cause “has made significant progress over the past three decades and it is well positioned to make more progress in the future”.
View ArticleBloody future awaits the Middle East
Uri Avnery says events in Syria could signal the disintegration of the nation-state and a return to ethnic-religious communities and, with them, “wholesale massacres and ethnic cleansing” .
View ArticleRichard Dawkins’s wake up call to Muslims met with hysteria
It’s pretty sad when anyone, let alone a respected author and scientist, is attacked simply for stating a hard fact. Yet that is precisely what happened when Richard Dawkins tweeted: All the world’s...
View ArticleNo Jewish-Arab dating please, we’re Israeli racists
Just in case you’re thinking the apartheid state of Israel can’t get any more racist, think again. Take a look at this, for example, reported by the Times of Israel. It’s a hotline that has just been...
View ArticleThe 1973 war and the power of deterrence
Gilad Atzmon says 40 years after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, there is still a lesson to be learnt by the Arab states and Iran: the absolute need for a deterrent capability.
View ArticleWatch: Are you on the US “terrorist” list?
One million people worldwide have been swept up by TIDE, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment. It is a list of people suspected of being terrorists that is managed by the US National
View Article“Us” and “Them” and the need for a Jewish-Arab united front in Israel
Uri Avnery laments the growing chasm between Jewish and Arab peace forces in Israel and calls for the creation of a united front comprising young, energetic people who are ready to work together, to...
View Articleالأصل و الأصالة (Origin and authenticity)
بقلم منذر هنداوي ماذا تعني كلمة أصل أو ما يشتق منها مثل “أصيل” و “أصالة”؟ ماذا نعني عندما نقول عن شخص أنه “إبن أصل”؟ ماذا نعني عندما نقول أن هذا الرجل سوداني
View Articleبماذا غرق ميلود؟ (What did Maylud sink to? On empathy, self-examination and...
بقلم منذر هنداوي تعثرت فتاة إنكليزية جميلة على مدخل كافيتيريا تابعة لمركز تعلم اللغة فانتخى شاب عربي و ساعدها و لملم لها أغراضها و أوراقها المتساقطة على الأرض و أجلسها على الكرسي
View ArticleNo Jewish-Arab dating please, we’re Israeli racists
Just in case you’re thinking the apartheid state of Israel can’t get any more racist, think again. Take a look at this, for example, reported by the Times of Israel. It’s a
View ArticleThe 1973 war and the power of deterrence
Gilad Atzmon says 40 years after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, there is still a lesson to be learnt by the Arab states and Iran: the absolute need for a deterrent capability.
View ArticleWatch: Are you on the US “terrorist” list?
One million people worldwide have been swept up by TIDE, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment. It is a list of people suspected of being terrorists that is managed by the US National
View Article“Us” and “Them” and the need for a Jewish-Arab united front in Israel
Uri Avnery laments the growing chasm between Jewish and Arab peace forces in Israel and calls for the creation of a united front comprising young, energetic people who are ready to work together, to...
View Articleالأصل و الأصالة (Origin and authenticity)
بقلم منذر هنداوي ماذا تعني كلمة أصل أو ما يشتق منها مثل “أصيل” و “أصالة”؟ ماذا نعني عندما نقول عن شخص أنه “إبن أصل”؟ ماذا نعني عندما نقول أن هذا الرجل سوداني
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