Frantz Fanon would have been 100 years old this year, a cause for sombre commemorations at a time when his words feel prophetic and empowering, yet devastating at the same time.
The Age of Fanon, 1
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Hamas
How Israel is engineering Gaza’s social collapse
With both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority substantially weakened, and civil society in ruins, Palestinian self-governance seems more distant than ever.
PODCAST: Ceasefire only temporary relief for Gaza
Is the Gaza ceasefire a victory for Hamas, as they claim or is it a temporary band-aid over a terrible defeat?
The children of Gaza: STARVATION AS A WEAPON OF WAR
Hunger in the Gaza Strip is not something new. Hunger has long been an instrument of ethnic cleansing and a weapon of war for Israel.
ISRAELI STRATEGY IN PALESTINE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
Interview with Gilbert Achcar Amandla!: The scale of Israel’s attack on Gaza is unprecedented. Do you see this largely as an act of vengeance or does it have a strategic purpose? Gilbert Achcar: Of course, one dimension of it resembles an act of vengeance. But it is...
OP-ED: Like the Phoenix, Gaza will Rise from the Fire
The Palestinian spirit is unbreakable. Like the mythical phoenix, defiant and heroic Gaza will rise from the fire. The aerial bombardment of Gaza’s most crowded Jabalia refugee camp piles on one massacre after another. It signifies Israeli barbarism and a fascist...
News Briefs
NUMSA Dirty Tricks Document ARE STATE SECURITY AGENCIES involved in the closing of democratic space? Evidence of people being approached to spy on social justice activists, phone taps, phony intelligence reports, and sinister thefts of electronic equipment indicate...
Words Not Weapons | South African Jewish Voices for a Just Peace (JVJP)
Many people within South Africa and the global Jewish community are determined in their attempts to portray the Jewish community as homogeneous and unified in their consensus in support of the Israeli government's actions. We wish to add our voices to the growing...
Interview with Gilbert Achcar by Brian Ashley, August 2014
Amandla!: What in your view are the factors that gave rise to the latest assault on Gaza and why did it happen at this time? Why has it taken such an exceptionally brutal form? Gilbert Achcar: The real qualitative escalation in brutality goes along with the drift of...