Gaza

The Cairo West power plant near the Nile river, Cairo, Egypt, 2025.

Hardwiring normalization — Infrastructures, extraction and Gaza’s future

Rafeef Ziadah — Trump’s vision seeks to fold Gaza into Israeli, Egyptian and Gulf networks under US trusteeship, merging Gulf capital and Israeli technology while reducing Palestinians to obstacles to be displaced or bypassed.
Palestinian statehood

There are no ceasefires on stolen land: Liberation, not liberal Zionism

Tithi Bhattacharya — Nothing is more urgent than an assessment of the ceasefire and a collective discussion of future strategies for the international Palestine movement.
Forced displacement Gaza

Trump’s ‘peace’ in the Middle East: A retrocolonialism built on sand

Kevin B. Anderson provides a preliminary assessment of the consequences of the Gaza war and the future.
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.
Palestine rally in US

Ultra-leftism won't help free Palestine

Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh and Hoda Mitwally on how activists can more effectively support Palestinians.
Global Sumud Flotilla

Touch one, touch all: Brazil must protect its citizens on the Global Sumud Flotilla

Israel Dutra — The world’s eyes are on Gaza. And the eyes of Brazil are on the flotilla. Brazil must take responsibility for its citizens, ensuring their safety, repatriation and physical integrity.
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.
Marc Botenga

Challenging the EU’s deadly partnership with Israel

Marc Botenga on how Europe’s inaction on Gaza amounts to legal and moral complicity.
BRICS Brazil summit

Why are the BRICS countries not condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza?

Eric Toussaint analyses the practical policies of the BRICS countries and the institutions they have established towards Israel and its genocide in Gaza.
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.
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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