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How Trump took an Israeli idea and presented it as his own | Opinions
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How Trump took an Israeli idea and presented it as his own | Opinions

US President Donald Trump’s latest statements that called for cancelling the ceasefire in Gaza have caused outrage across the Middle East and beyond....

The Gazafication of Jenin will not succeed | Opinions
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The Gazafication of Jenin will not succeed | Opinions

Last month, as the Israeli army started pulling out of Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, it announced an “operation” in the occupied West...

How Sudan and Palestine made it to the Super Bowl | Opinions
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How Sudan and Palestine made it to the Super Bowl | Opinions

On Sunday night amid the spectacle of the Super Bowl halftime show, a performer raised the flags of Sudan and Palestine. In an...

Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile | Israel-Palestine conflict
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Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile | Israel-Palestine conflict

For 15 months, I was displaced from my home in northern Gaza. For 15 long months that felt like 15 years, I felt...

Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown | Social Media
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Big Tech is powering Trump’s immigration crackdown | Social Media

“Immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of s***.” This is the kind of statement that Meta will no longer be flagging as hate speech...

On idle talk and genocide in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
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On idle talk and genocide in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Today, writing feels like planting the proverbial tree in the face of the apocalypse. Decades ago, I started writing to make words mean...

Elon Musk is a global problem | Opinions
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Elon Musk is a global problem | Opinions

From his apparent “Nazi salute” at United States President Donald Trump’s inauguration celebration to his labelling of the US Agency for International Development...

Trump’s foul solution to the Palestinian ‘problem’ was aided by Biden, too | Opinions
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Trump’s foul solution to the Palestinian ‘problem’ was aided by Biden, too | Opinions

These are not easy times. To help prepare to write this column, I was obliged to listen repeatedly to the meandering musings of US...

Trump’s fear mongering on South Africa’s land reform exposes his hypocrisy | Opinions
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Trump’s fear mongering on South Africa’s land reform exposes his hypocrisy | Opinions

In an all-too-familiar display of ignorance, United States President Donald Trump recently denounced South Africa’s new Expropriation Act, falsely framing it as a...