Middle East

Palestinian Youth Movement

What comes next for the Palestinian Youth Movement: Interview with Mohammed Nabulsi

Mohammed Nabulsi — Our strategy of mobilization seeks to create crisis for the US ruling class and raise the political, social, and economic costs for their participation in this genocide.
Kenyatta Ngusilo (C), a member of the Ogiek community, watches as his storehouse burns in Sasimwani Mau Forest, 2023. Hundreds of Ogiek people were left homeless after the Kenyan government evicted alleged encroachers.

Laundering carbon — The Gulf’s ‘new scramble for Africa’

Adam Hanieh — As the world’s largest exporters of crude oil and liquified natural gas, the Gulf states are reconfiguring their relationships with Africa via carbon offset projects, a shift that will have significant consequences for the trajectories of our warming planet.
Child in Gaza

Gilbert Achcar: On the murder of children and the return of genocide to banality

Gilbert Achcar — It is one of the cruel ironies of history that those who claim to speak on behalf of the victims of Nazi genocide are the perpetrators of the most horrific campaign of extermination in the history of contemporary settler colonialism.
destruction in Gaza

An unending genocide in Gaza: Interview with Toufic Haddad

Toufic Haddad speaks about the history and political economy behind the genocide — from Hamas’ October 7 attack to Israel’s strategic objectives in its repeated wars on Gaza, to the failures of the Oslo framework.
Axis of Resistance

The mythology of a Mideast ‘Axis of Resistance’

Michael Karadjis look at the members of the alleged ‘Axis of Resistance’, how resistant they have been in relation to the Gaza genocide and what is behind their rhetoric.
fedain

Abandoned legacy: The left of Iran and Palestinians

Omid Montazeri charts the entwined histories of resistance and collaboration between the Iranian Marxist and muslim groups and Palestinian liberation.
Palestine Kurdistan

Reflections on the Palestinian and Kurdish Resistance: History, challenges and solution perspectives

This brochure is a compilation of four interviews analysing the Kurdish and Palestinian resistance.
Lebanon bombed

Gilbert Achcar: Is the drumbeat of war on the Israel/Lebanon front a prelude to all-out war?

Gilbert Achcar — Recent weeks have witnessed a sharp escalation of the exchange of fire between the Lebanese resistance and Israeli forces in South Lebanon/North of the Zionist state.
Israel Zionism

Ilan Pappé: The collapse of Zionism

Ilan Pappé — We are witnessing a historical process – or, more accurately, the beginnings of one – that is likely to culminate in the downfall of Zionism.
Adam Hanieh cartoon

Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and US power in the Middle East

Adam Hanieh provides an alternative approach to understanding Palestine – one that is framed by the wider region and the Middle East’s central place in our fossil fuel-centred world.
Netanyahu concerned

Gilbert Achcar: Truce in Gaza and the dilemmas faced by Netanyahu and Hamas

Gilbert Achcar — News related to the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip have been overshadowed by the truce project that Biden attributed to “Israel” without specifying which Israeli governing body had approved it.
Standing Together protest

The anti-war left makes inroads in Israel: An interview with Standing Together’s Uri Weltmann

Uri Weltmann discusses the growing peace movement inside Israel and how activists are confronting far-right extremists seeking to disrupt humanitarian aid going to the Gaza Strip.

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