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Israel's war on Gaza

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Palestinians return to north Gaza

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ICJ president accused of plagiarism in dissenting opinion on Israeli occupation

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UK Prevent review: It's time to abolish this failing system

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Gaza ceasefire: Our losses are immeasurable but our joy is an act of resistance

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Martin Luther King Jr would have called it a genocide, too

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Biden and Blinken bow out as embodiments of a genocidal status quo

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Turkey doesn't seek conflict with Israel in Syria. Here's why

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Elon Musk and Peter Thiel: The billionaires fomenting a global race war

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Dr Abu Safiya symbolised humanity in Gaza. Israel and the West are destroying it

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Will Israel achieve in the West Bank what it failed to do in Gaza?

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After promised 'victory' in Gaza, Israel only succeeded in destroying itself

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London police crackdown on Gaza protest evokes 19th-century repression

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Gaza ceasefire: The Palestinian spirit will never be broken

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Gaza ceasefire: Israel created a biblical catastrophe for Palestinians. It still lost the war

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How I survived Israel's genocidal war

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A Gaza genocide sideshow: Watching 'Lolita' in Tel Aviv

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'This is ethnic cleansing': Trump faces backlash over Gaza proposal

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Harvard Medical School cancels 'one-sided' lecture with Gaza patients

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Billionaires and tech moguls: US presidential inauguration sparks online backlash

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Social media erupts over Trump inauguration, TikTok ban and Gaza ceasefire

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'Bye Genocide Joe': Social media reflects on Biden's legacy on Gaza

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Syria: Outrage after group paints over 'history and evidence' in prison

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Mourning and celebrations online after Gaza ceasefire agreement

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'Persecution': Outpouring of anger after 'termination' of pro-Palestine Columbia professor

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As Los Angeles wildfires burn, social media points to Israeli-made fires in Gaza

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Former NBA star Dwight Howard says 'Free Palestine' tweet nearly got him fired

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Fans call for boycott of popular K-drama for 'thinly veiled references' to Israel's war on Gaza

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UK: New British Muslim group announces launch in apparent challenge to MCB

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Sihem Bensedrine led Tunisia's truth hearings. Now she's in prison

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Is Trump adopting a restrained approach with Tehran?

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Who is responsible for the Turkey ski hotel fire?

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Middle East Eye's picks of the year 2024

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Trump's incoming envoy raises hopes of a 'free Imran Khan'

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Revealed: How Israel's plan to carve up Syria was thwarted by Assad's downfall

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Why did online footage of a 'historic' UN panel in Riyadh disappear?

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In shattered Yarmouk, the Palestinians of Syria mourn their 'paradise' lost to war

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Syrians live among bones after years of Tadamon killings

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Syrian commander on Israeli frontline says invasion will go no further

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In search of a coherent Labour policy on Gaza

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Is it a fake? The mystery of the last Ottoman caliph's secret plan

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The Message: How Palestine changed Ta-Nehisi Coates's view of justice

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Francesca Albanese: ICC should seek more arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

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How the Axis of Resistance is shaping the Middle East

3 months ago

Google backed Israel's military. Now its workers are in revolt

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How the war on Gaza exposed Israeli and western fascism

4 months ago

You can't arm a genocidal state into moderation. So why does the West keep trying?

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How Israeli genocide in Gaza exposed the West's liberal delusion

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Revealed: Why there is an abandoned Ottoman tomb in remote India

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Starmer's fingerprints - not just the Tories' - are all over Britain's race riots

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How Netanyahu's Washington visit paved the way for regional war

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Hamas releases four Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners

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Palestinians in northern Gaza return home to rubble and destruction

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Footage shows aftermath of Israel's 'strip-search' of Palestinians in Jabalia

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Senior Hamas commander appears on video despite Israeli claim he was killed

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Sight of Hamas fighters celebrating in Gaza chills Israelis

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Egypt still detains 129 pro-Palestine protesters despite mediating ceasefire

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'I could smell Syria': Trauma lingers among diaspora but returning home means closure

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Turkey and Syria agree on roadmap to revive trade

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Syria's new government lists conditions to end rift with Kurdish-led SDF

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Ahmed al-Mansour: The Egyptian fighter in Syria causing Sisi alarm

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Syria's Sharaa reveals phone call with Turkey's Erdogan

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HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa says Israel's advances in Syria unacceptable

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Israel's war on Lebanon

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Israel says it will continue to occupy Lebanon beyond ceasefire deadline

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Nawaf Salam, the ICJ president who became Lebanon's prime minister

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Who is Joseph Aoun, Lebanon's army chief turned president?

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Israel lobbies reluctant Trump to delay Lebanon withdrawal, Hezbollah grows impatient

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'Children cannot stay depressed': Beirut Christians mark dampened Christmas after Israel war

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Israeli forces begin withdrawal from southern Lebanon

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Qana residents recall Israel's history of massacres in their hometown

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Attack on hospital in Sudan's Darfur region kills dozens, says WHO

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Sudan's RSF attacks el-Fasher as fighting rages on in Khartoum

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Sudanese attacked in South Sudan after Wad Madani violence

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US sanctions on Burhan spark Sudanese condemnation of UAE and Biden

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Sudanese army says it captured key RSF-held capital of al-Jazira state

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Egypt embroiled in Sudan border battles with smugglers

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US says 'genocide' taking place in Sudan as it sanctions RSF chief Hemeti

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Over eight million in Sudan on brink of famine, says UN-backed analysis

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Stashes of Emirati weapons found in Sudan's Wad Madani: Report

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Sudan army air strike kills over 100 in North Darfur market

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Democratic lawmakers threaten to derail UAE arms sales over support for RSF in Sudan: Report

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French weapons used in Sudan in violation of UN embargo, Amnesty says

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What is the UK's Prevent programme and why is it being reviewed?

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What you need to know about the Gaza ceasefire deal

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The Arab Interior Ministers Council: What is it and why are there human rights concerns?

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US sanctions on Syria: How they work and what they mean

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What is Sednaya? Inside Bashar al-Assad's prison of torture and fear

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Did the US fund the Syrian rebels that toppled Assad?

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The Syrian National Army: Rebels, thugs or Turkish proxies?

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What does Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham believe in?

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'Banality of evil': Artist turns Gaza settler dream into disturbing installation

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No Other Land: Film on Israeli occupation of Palestine gets Oscar nomination

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig: Tense Iranian portrayal of a family torn apart by Mahsa Amini protests

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Fabricating Homeland Security: How India was sold the dream to become 'more like Israel'

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How medieval Muslim migrants helped build Europe's castles, churches and monasteries

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Maus author Art Spiegelman to collaborate with Joe Sacco on Gaza comic

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How a 7 October video game highlighted the gaming world's uneasy relationship with Islam

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The Bibi Files: A liberal Zionist effort to blame Netanyahu for Israel's woes

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'If I must die': An anthology of a stubborn, brilliant life in Gaza

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The Bibi Files: The truth Netanyahu doesn't want you to see

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Bristol Palestine Film Festival finds reconciliation after last year's cancellations

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Made in Gaza: From Ground Zero gives voice to filmmakers trapped in war zone

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How Hollywood failed to change Trump's America and what Arab artists must now do

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From cassettes to streaming: Moroccan classics are getting a new life online

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Seven Pavilions of Love: London exhibition celebrates Nizami and the Persian miniature

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Salt Journals: Tunisian women describe their country's legacy of political imprisonment

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The Village Next to Paradise: Mo Harawe on his landmark Somali film and Cannes debut

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Gaza's cultural and religious heritage lies in ruins after a year of attacks by Israel

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Palestinian grief and Lebanon's ghosts of war cast a shadow on Locarno 2024

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Hamas expects another war with Israel - this time in the West Bank

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Netanyahu's total victory narrative has collapsed

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The Muslim senator who took on Australia's government

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Palestinians must audition for 'our own humanity'

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The Syrian dream rises from the ashes of Assad's nightmare

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Trump's intrusive demons and Israel's 'enlightened cause'

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Americans 'socialised' into capitalism, racism and Zionism

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Jill Stein: 'The Democrats have no one to blame but themselves'

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Ilan Pappe on the birth of Israel and the death of Zionism

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'He was sent by God': Talking to Trump supporters about Israel

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The untold history of the Israeli Defence Forces

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Dahiyeh Doctrine: Why Israel lost the 2006 Lebanon War

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'A war on children': Doctor tells of harrowing experience in Gaza | Victoria Rose

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'If you're an Arab journalist, you're political': Western media & Gaza | Hind Hassan

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Syria's disappeared: One woman's fight to find her father | Wafa Mustafa

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Assad dynasty: How one family brutally ruled Syria for 54 years | Joshua Landis

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How AIPAC unseated US congressman Jamaal Bowman over Israel

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Gaza genocide, witnessing Israel's apartheid & the US elections

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Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon: How the pro-Israel lobby influences US policy | Stephen Walt

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Elon Musk, UK far right, and Islamophobia: Why Humza Yousaf is sounding the alarm

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How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes

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What exactly happened in Syria's 13-year civil war

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Azzam Tamimi on Yahya Sinwar's legacy, Israel and the likelihood of a regional war

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Joseph Massad: How Israel functions as an extension of US interests

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Jill Stein: The woman trying to upend the US political system

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Cornel West on his life and what inspired him to run for US president

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Andrew Feinstein: The anti-apartheid activist trying to stop Keir Starmer

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Mads Gilbert: The doctor who's witnessed Israel's wars against Palestinians since 1982

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Gaza ceasefire: After 15 months of brutality, Israel has failed on every front

12 days ago

Grooming gangs: This vile racist campaign puts Muslims in serious danger

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Op-Ed video: Who is the real threat to British democracy?

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Op-Ed video: 'It's not complex, it's simple. What's happening in Gaza is morally wrong'

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