Muslim Issues

  A pro-Palestinian sign is held high during an “International Day of Action for Palestine”, in New York, USA, on 13 October 2023 [Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images] by Ibrahim Hewitt   I have been re-reading Gaza in Crisis, written in 2010 by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, because what is being played out in Gaza looks and feels all too …

Protesters sit on top of the bus stop on the Whitehall during the march in London, United Kingdom. Palestinians, activists and supporters gathered by the BBC’s Broadcasting House to march together towards Downing Street on 14 October (Reuters) Two polls this week show Great Britain’s public diverging from their government’s stance on the ongoing war in Israel-Palestine   A fresh …

  MICHAEL YOUNG None of the major actors in the Middle East wants to see the conflict spread, but are locked into positions that lead in the contrary direction.   If the war over Gaza spreads to Lebanon, would a regional conflict become inescapable? Virtually all the major parties involved probably don’t want it to escalate into a wider regional …

  As Downing Street endorses Netanyahu’s “mighty vengeance,” David Cronin provides a briefing on Britain’s support for Israel since 1948, which has involved a number of twists. U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with Israel’s Prime Minister in London in March. (Simon Walker, No 10 Downing Street, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By David CroninDeclassified UK Rishi Sunak has given Britain’s full approval to the flattening …

  Palestinian officials have called on the nations of the world to step in and prevent the “deliberate genocide” of their people by Israel after hundreds were killed in the bombing of a hospital in Gaza. Israeli officials blamed the blast on an errant rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad militant group. However, an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/18/23) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the nation, today condemned as “indefensible” a United States veto of a U.N. resolution that would have condemned violence against all civilians in the current Middle East conflict and would have urged humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza.   The Security Council vote on …