Author: Abdullah Khan

Palestinian medics reported at least 14 people were wounded, including five who were shot protesting a blockade “that has devastated Gaza’s economy and fueled an unemployment rate that hovers at approximately 50 percent”: Palestinians in Gaza Resume Protests Against Israeli Blockade (Al-Jazeera) Unclear guidelines and fear of sanctions are stopping tech companies from selling products…

Pro-Palestine activists staged a protest outside an Israeli arms manufacturer’s plant in the borough of Oldham, UK, as part of their nationwide campaign against one of Israel’s “largest arms manufacturers”: Production of Israeli Arms Halted – Elbit’s Oldham Factory Shut Down By Palestine Action (Palestine Action) Mohammed El Halabi was accused of “stealing relief money…

“Groups of armed Afghans attacked the Taliban on Friday, driving Afghanistan’s new rulers out of three northern districts, the first assault against the Islamist militants since they swept into Kabul last week and seized control of the government”: Anti-Taliban Fighters Claim Victories as First Stirrings of Armed Resistance Emerge (Washington Post) Israeli troops fired on…

U.S. intervention created the corruption in Afghanistan that made the Taliban takeover so easy in the end … Sanction Pakistan? Try Blaming America for Afghanistan (TRT World) Dispatches from Afghanistan: The Bombshell Interview (Hollie McKay) … but will the Taliban do any better than they did last time? Defining Change: Who Are the Taliban that…

Pakistan serves as a scapegoat for the United States as they exit Afghanistan, ending a 20 year war that “created a political order that prioritized its counterterrorism agenda over the Afghan people”: Sanction Pakistan? Try Blaming America for Afghanistan (TRT World) In the past 13 days, the Israeli apartheid regime has illegally “demolished, seized or forced…

“[P]rominent civil rights, Jewish, and faith-based organizations and leaders today strongly denounced flagrant anti-Muslim animus targeting Dilawar Syed and his historic nomination for deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)”: Flagrant Anti-Muslim Bias Weaponized Against SBA Nominee (Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights) After decades of lying through omission,  a more honest…

Palestinian poet Darren Tatour exposes the horrors she faced after being imprisoned for her poems in 2015 … Decolonizing the Mind: An Interview with Palestinian Poet Dareen Tatour (Core Middle East) … while the winner of the UN’s 2012 Humanitarian Hero Award languished in an Israeli jail though Israel, having “no proof to back their charges”…

Moayed Al-Alami, father of the 12 year old boy murdered by the IDF, “has no confidence in this investigation” until the guilty soldiers “are before me in court”: Palestinian Dad Expects No Justice for Son Killed by Israel (Associated Press) Amidst international pressure, Israel has begun to seemingly “investigate and reprimand the NSO” despite clearly…

The Israeli high court insulted the homeowners by proposing they “could stay in their homes for now” if they began paying rent to the Jewish settler group pretending to ownership of their homes: Palestinians Reject Israeli Court’s Deal That Would Put Them at “Mercy of Settlers” in Sheikh Jarrah (Democracy Now) In the midst of…

Even as he strips immunity from members of parliament and arrest a judge Tunisia’s strongman is blind to his dictatorial proclivities: Tunisia’s Saied Says Will Not ‘Turn into a Dictator’ amid Arrests (Aljazeera) A Palestinian man was shot and murdered during the funeral of a 12 year old boy who was shot in the chest…