Middle East

Left and progressive Middle Eastern and Australian organisations have released a statement supporting the right of the Palestinian people to resist ongoing dispossession, occupation and oppression by the settler colonial state of Israel.

In response to the genocidal war being waged on the people of Palestine, La Via Campesina reiterates its steadfast solidarity with the peasants, fisherfolk and working families of Palestine.

Leftists in Ukraine are insisting on the urgent need to build solidarity without exception among oppressed peoples.

Rohini Hensman — On October 7, Hamas committed a war crime when in its attack on Israel, hundreds of civilians were killed, but since 1948 the scale of the crimes against the Palestinians repeatedly committed by Israel are many times larger. What can ensure peace in Palestine?

Simon Pirani — Israel’s murderous onslaught on civilians is something that Israel’s war on the Palestinians and Russia’s war on Ukraine have in common. This is what empires do in the 21st century: the western empire that supports Israel and the weaker Russian empire.

Rashid Khalidi discusses the response — in the US, in the Middle East, and elsewhere — to recent events, the history of the Zionist project and past peace processes.

An interview with Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council member Duran Kalkan.

Oliver Eagleton — Since the Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October and the ensuing assault on Gaza, the Biden administration has performed what is euphemistically described as a ‘balancing act’.

We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid.

Don Fitz argues that there is a strong connection between the criminal occupation of Palestine and the LandBack movement.

Gilbert Achcar — A ground invasion appears imminent, but what is the political endgame?

Sarah Glynn — Turkey’s attacks on North and East Syria have not matched the immediate intensity and scale of the lethal violence that Israel has rained down on Gaza, but their intended result and many of their methods are the same.