Palestine

Amanda Shweeta Louis talks about the commercialisation of Malaysia’s education system, solidarity with Palestine and why young Malaysians are looking to socialist ideas.

Samirah Jarrar outlines the need to move beyond a humanitarian framework of Palestinian health to envision a politics of care rooted in justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sushovan Dhar — As Israel’s war continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves with welcoming Trump and signing multimillion-dollar trade agreements.

Frieda Holm and Maria Sommer discuss the shifting dynamics within Die Linke and building durable infrastructure for the class struggle within and beyond the party.

Sbeih Sbeih asks what it means to produce critical scholarship from within institutions that are complicit in the face of the colonial (and genocidal) enterprise.

Gwenael Velge — History shows that paradigmatic slides in governance often start with universities, but they rarely stop there.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, PACBI, explains its position on the film ‘No Other Land’, and responds to the debate that it has generated.

Award-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’ has been criticized for normalizing the Occupation and violating BDS guidelines, writes Anna Lippman.