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A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
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A protective force must be deployed to occupied Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict

In the past few weeks, demands for the deployment of a protective force in Gaza and the West Bank have resurfaced. They have...

In Yemen, we comfort ourselves, thinking: It is not as bad as Gaza | Opinions
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In Yemen, we comfort ourselves, thinking: It is not as bad as Gaza | Opinions

In the first week of April, the United States carried out air raids across Yemen. One strike hit just a street away from...

USAID and the pacification industry in Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict
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USAID and the pacification industry in Palestine | Israel-Palestine conflict

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) opened its office in Palestine back in 1994. Its website, which is no longer available,...

India’s Waqf Amendment Act: Who needs bulldozers when you have bureaucrats? | Opinions
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India’s Waqf Amendment Act: Who needs bulldozers when you have bureaucrats? | Opinions

Imagine this:  a 100-year-old bungalow, built by your great-grandfather – a quiet, serene place dedicated for decades to a single, noble purpose: Charitable...

The great collapse of US higher education has begun | Education
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The great collapse of US higher education has begun | Education

There is no other way to say it. The American university as the United States has known it since the 1960s is at...

In Canada, genocide is on the ballot | Gaza
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In Canada, genocide is on the ballot | Gaza

If you doubted the old chestnut that politics can be a “fickle business,” the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, would like...

Gaza is burning. UK NGOs must abandon failed diplomacy and fight back | Israel-Palestine conflict
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Gaza is burning. UK NGOs must abandon failed diplomacy and fight back | Israel-Palestine conflict

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz declared last week that “no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza”, effectively announcing his government’s intention to continue the...

Trump’s campaign to turn dissent into a deportable offence harms democracy | Opinions
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Trump’s campaign to turn dissent into a deportable offence harms democracy | Opinions

On April 11, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student and lawful United States permanent...

Away from the global spotlight, Eritreans are trapped in a garrison state | Conflict
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Away from the global spotlight, Eritreans are trapped in a garrison state | Conflict

American writer and security analyst Paul B Henze, who served in the Carter administration as a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski,...