Gilbert Achcar

Morocco Gen Z

Morocco’s Gen Z and the regional volcano

Gilbert Achcar — The movement of the Moroccan youth is but the latest manifestation of the regional crisis revealed by the 2011 Arab Spring.
Trump in Egypt

Trump at the Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh: A festival of obsequiousness

Gilbert Achcar — If the scenes of Trump’s celebration at the Israeli Knesset and in Sharm el-Sheikh were staged for cinematic exploitation, they would undoubtedly rank among the worst productions in history.
Gaza destruction

Gaza after October 7: A bitter account two years into the catastrophe

Gilbert Achcar provides an account of two years of genocidal war and its potential outcome.
Netanyahu and Trump

Trump’s new Israel-Palestine peace plan: The ‘Deal of the Millennium’ after the ‘Deal of the Century’

Gilbert Achcar — Trump’s new plan is even less realistic than the one he unveiled five years ago.
far right and israel

Gaza and global neofascism

Gilbert Achcar — Western governments’ support for the Zionist genocidal war in Gaza has been part of a gradual banalization of the far right by the “centrists”.
Israeli airstrikes on Iran

Neofascism, imperialism, war and revolution in the Middle East

Gilbert Achcar — US imperialism is far from dead. Instead, what we have is a mutation of US imperialism, which began not with Trump, but with Biden and the war in Gaza.
Palestine flag

The mirage of a Palestinian state

Gilbert Achcar — Countries recognizing a hypothetical “State of Palestine” is symbolically positive. But under present conditions, it can't be more than a renewed version of the vast prison the Zionist state confines Palestinian people in.
Gaza catastrophe

‘Atlanticist liberalism can never recover from its present agony’

Gilbert Achcar discusses his new book ‘The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective’ and the political events that gave rise to it.
Suwayda

Syria and the dangers of playing with fire

Gilbert Achcar on the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Druze-majority Suwayda Governorate and the prospects of post-Assad Syria.
Trump Netanyahu

Trump, Netanyahu and the reordering of the Middle East

Gilbert Achcar — Despite all the evidence to the contrary, too many commentators continue to portray Trump as eager for a peaceful settlement to the war in Gaza.
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Neofascism and climate change

Gilbert Achcar — What is driving neofascist movements to question, to varying degrees, the reality of climate change?
war or peace?

In support of ‘synchronized global disarmament’

Gilbert Achcar discusses ways of supporting Ukraine while rejecting a generalized war.

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