Muslim Issues

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the entrance to Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, on 25 June 2021 (AFP)   Palestine’s landed class could have organised to fight Zionist land grabs. Its negligence and collaboration with the occupation has left ordinary Palestinians to resist alone.   The main trigger to the uprising and resistance that engulfed Palestine last May was no different …

Jahangir Mohammed of the Ayaan Institute argues that War on Terror did not start 20 years ago, rather it has been ongoing for 42 years. He demonstrates how during that period the United States has devastated and broken the Muslim world, as part of a calculated military strategy, causing millions of deaths and casualties along the way. It is the …

In September 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon and bombed by air, sea and land to finish off the Palestine Liberation Organization there. In the process slaughtered   thousands of Palestinian civilians   in refugee camps. The anniversary of the genocide does not attract any attention in the Western media, which remains integral part of Western war machines. According to the Red Cross Israeli …

Israeli security forces take a Palestinian inmate into custody, one of the 6 escapees from Gilboa prison, after being arrested in Umm al-Ghanam town on September 11, 2021 [Israeli Police / Anadolu Agency]   Member of Hamas Political Bureau Khalil Al-Hayya announced on Friday that the six Palestinians who escaped from Gilboa Prison would be the priority in any potential prisoner swap. …

A Palestinian child is seen near a car wreck as Palestinians living in makeshift homes in El-Zohor neighbourhood in the city of Khan Yunis on the Gaza Strip are facing difficult conditions under the cold weather on December 14, 2016 [Mustafa Hassona / Anadolu Agency] Fifteen years ago, the Israeli authorities imposed a severe blockade on the Gaza Strip’s population …

Palestinian youths carry a poster by militant group Islamic Jihad reading in Arabic: “the second great escape from the prisons of the Zionist enemy [JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images] An escape from Gilboa Prison in Bisan, northern Palestine, yesterday is reminiscent of the great escape in 1968 and an attempt to escape 20 years ago from the same prison. The escape operation …