Israel’s Gaza war, West Bank raids stole Bethlehem’s Christmas
Dec 20,2023 – Michael Jansen Israel’s Gaza war and West Bank raids have stolen Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations this year. The little hill town where Jesus was born in a stable […]
Saudi Arabia unveils unified national visa-application platform
A man walks around ancient Nabataean carved tombs at the archaeological site of Al-Hijr, near the northwestern Saudi city of AlUla. (File/AFP) ARAB NEWS December 19, 2023 RIYADH: The Saudi […]
How Palestinians are countering Israel’s politics of humiliation
RAMZY BAROUD December 19, 2023 When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians. Knowing how the […]
Holocaust Survivor Dr Gabor Maté, On Israel And Its Ongoing Atrocities
A screenshot from footage of the aftermath of Israel’s bombing of northern Gaza in November 2023. By New Matilda on December 7, 2023 International Affairs The death toll in the latest escalation of […]
Swiss court grants asylum rights to Afghan women
read aloudX The Federal Administrative Court has upheld an appeal by two Afghan women against their deportation from Switzerland. Consequently, they must be granted asylum in the Alpine country. This […]
Israel’s allies lose control of narrative as death toll soars
BARIA ALAMUDDIN December 18, 2023 At London’s Royal College of Arts last week, remarkable developments unfolded. Staff discovered that the Israeli ambassador was due to speak at an event at […]
An opening in the fight to educate Afghan girls
Dec 17,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Gordon Brown and Yasmine Sherif EDINBURGH/NEW YORK — It has now been over two years since the United States military ended its decades-long war […]
What google says about Israelis and a ‘two state solution’
82% of Israeli Jews and 75% of Palestinians believed that the other side would never accept the existence of their independent state. At the end of October 2023, the two-state […]
How Britain’s taste for tea may have been a life saver
Share using EmailShare on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on Linkedin (Image credit: Getty Images) By Veronique Greenwood16th December 2023 Tea quickly became one of the British Empire’s most prized resources in the […]
Israel Gaza: Hostages were carrying white cloth when shot, IDF says
Related Topics By Hugo Bachega BBC Middle East Correspondent, Tel Aviv Three Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza were shot dead while holding a white cloth, an […]
Book review: Shlomo Sand’s “The Invention of the Jewish People”
Raymond Deane The Electronic Intifada 22 October 2009 In 1967 the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish published his poem “A Soldier Dreaming of White Lilies,” only to be accused of “collaboration with the […]
Fantasized homeland: Review of Shlomo Sand’s new book
By Yossi Gurvitz May 16, 2012 A review of Shlomo Sand’s “The Invention of the Land of Israel” and other musings on religious Zionism. “After the people was exiled from its land […]
Ahmadiyya in the Perspective of Religious Freedom and Tolerance
The Ahmadiyya movement, which has its roots in Islamic tradition, has been the center of attention and controversy in the context of religious freedom and tolerance. This article will explore how views towards Ahmadiyya reflect the complexities and challenges of embracing religious freedom in society. Freedom of religion is a […]
Let Afghan Girls Learn
Dr. Fayeza F.Dr. Fayeza F. • #813 days passed since the hashtag#school banned for Afghan girls beyond sixth grade in hashtag#Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female hashtag#education. Its a gender inequality, male and female has the right of education equally. #letafghangirlslearn source linkedin… […]
If There Was a Path to Peace, Would You Take It?
Sarmad NaveedCONTEMPORARY AND SOCIAL ISSUES 12th December 2023 ©Wikimedia Commons Sarmad Naveed, Canada For those sitting thousands of miles away, seeing images of the brutal cruelties being faced by the […]
Israel ‘absolutely’ rejects prospect of a 2-state solution after Gaza war ends, says envoy
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, said on Wednesday that her country will “absolutely” reject any possibility of a two-state solution after the war in Gaza ends. (X: @TzipiHotovely)Next […]
King of Jordan delivers keynote address at Global Refugee Forum in Geneva
By JT – Dec 14,2023 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah participates in the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva and delivers the keynote address (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) GENEVA — […]
Overwhelming majority of 153 UN member states call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Children walk along a street in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Dec. 12, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and Hamas. (AFP) Updated 1 min 6 sec ago […]
The US needs to say ‘no’ to Israel and ‘yes’ to Palestine
Dec 12,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby The Biden administration has recently attempted to pivot from its initial unconditional support for Israeli actions in Gaza by combining caution […]
Israel kills Gaza’s storytellers but cannot kill the story
RAMZY BAROUD December 11, 2023 What is taking place in Gaza is meant for the history books: an epic tale of a small nation under a long, brutal siege for […]