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  When Zohran Mamdani stood before a roaring crowd on election night and declared, “ New York will remain a city of immigrants: a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and, as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” he wasn’t speaking in metaphor. He was naming a truth — one you can measure in numbers, taste in food, hear in accents, and see in every subway car at dawn. A City of Immigrants — Literally According to the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, nearly 3.1 million New Yorkers — about 38% of the city’s total population — were born outside the United States. That means every third person you pass on a crowded sidewalk once began life across an ocean. The phrase is no hyperbole: this is simply who we are . The City Runs Because They Do Immigrants don’t merely live in New York — they keep it running : They make up a large share of the city’s healthcare, food-service, transportation and building-services workforce, keeping hospitals, resta...

  When Zohran Mamdani stood before a roaring crowd and declared, “ No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election,” he wasn’t just celebrating victory — he was delivering a eulogy for a long, poisonous political playbook. Because let’s face it — Islamophobia has never just been about prejudice. It’s been a strategy — polished, funded, and weaponized into one of the most successful vote-getting formulas in modern politics. The Machinery of Fear The arithmetic is simple — and sinister . Take a minority that makes up barely 2% of the U.S. population . Turn them into the symbolic threat for the other 98%. Feed that fear with millions of dollars , wrap it in the flag , and sell it as “security. ” According to a 2021 CAIR report , more than $105 million was funneled to just 26 anti-Muslim organizations between 2017 and 2019 — money laundered through “ mainstream charitable ” institutions. That’s not democracy in action. That’...

  Thirty years ago, Yitzhak Rabin stood before a crowd in Tel Aviv and spoke of peace — weary, pragmatic, unsentimental peace. Minutes later, the man who saw peace as security, not surrender , was shot by one who saw God as a weapon . That was the night the State of Israel shot itself in the heart and called it “defense.” Rabin’s Israel was a nation wrestling with its conscience. He believed in strength, but not sanctified violence ; in separation, not supremacy . His realism was unsparing — he trusted no one, least of Al Arafat — yet he understood that endless occupation would rot Israel from within . “Security,” for Rabin, meant protecting Israel’s soul as much as its borders . Then came Netanyahu — the anti-Rabin in every sense . Where Rabin saw security as a path to coexistence , Netanyahu redefined it as perpetual siege. Where Rabin’s integrity made him resign over a forgotten bank account , Netanyahu’s corruption became a leadership credential . Rabin stood on a pla...

  By Malik Mukhtar There are reports that reveal. And then there are reports that confess. In 2012, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) released — under court order — a document so meticulous, so mathematically obscene, that it deserves to be archived not in a defense ministry, but in a museum of moral collapse. It was called the “Red Lines” report — a bureaucratic manual for managing the metabolism of an entire population. The premise was simple: if you can’t exterminate, calibrate. Control not the mind or the heart — but the stomach. The report calculated the exact number of calories a human in Gaza could consume without dying — but not enough to live with dignity. 2,279 calories per person per day, multiplied by population, divided by blockade, adjusted for punishment. Not a humanitarian plan, but a dietary occupation. “We are not starving them,” officials claimed, “We are putting them on a diet.” History will remember this ...

  “ The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.” — Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics” There are philosophies that dissect history, and there are philosophies that bleed through it. Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics belongs to the latter — it is not an academic exercise, but a diagnosis of the world’s moral decay. In his words, modern sovereignty is no longer about governing life — it is about managing death . It decides who is allowed to breathe, who must suffocate, and who will exist in the space between. Nowhere is this calculus of death more visible, more technologically refined, and more ethically bankrupt than in Palestine . The siege of Gaza has transformed necropolitics from theory into geography — a place where the architecture of control and the arithmetic of survival intersect. The Right to Kill, the Duty to Let Die In Necropolitics , Mbembe extends Foucault’s biopower — the power to “...

  The Art of Saying No While Handing Over the Keys: Trump’s De Facto Annexation Gift to Israel Ah yes — the era of “ principled diplomacy.” The Trump administration, that self-proclaimed guardian of “fairness” in the Middle East, will forever be remembered for its masterclass in political double-speak — a rare performance where the United States verbally opposed Israel’s annexation of the West Bank while physically laying down the red carpet for it. It’s like saying, “ Please, don’t steal the car,” while quietly tossing over the keys, disabling the alarm, and complimenting the thief’s driving skills. The Great Paradox — or Just the Great Performance? Let’s call it what it was: a paradox of diplomacy , or perhaps more accurately , a farce performed for global consumption . In words , the Trump administration urged restraint — telling Netanyahu that annexation should be “coordinated,” “negotiated,” and “timed wisely.” In reality , it was busy dismantling every legal and dip...

So, it turns out — after months of loud , righteous finger-pointing — that Israel has no proof . No proof that UNRWA, the UN’s lifeline for millions of Palestinians, is the “ terrorist front ” it was so theatrically accused of being. The World Court said it plainly: “Israel has not substantiated its allegations that a significant part of UNRWA employees are members of Hamas or other terrorist factions.” — International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion, 22 October 2025 But in Gaza, where truth is buried faster than the dead , who cares about proof? UNRWA : The Lifeline That Became a Target Since 1949, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has done what no “ civilized democracy ” dared to — feed, teach, and shelter those Israel displaced. In Gaza, UNRWA’s food distribution program wasn’t charity; it was oxygen. By late 2024, more than 1.1 million Palestinians relied on UNRWA for their daily rations — sacks of flour, lentils, oil — survival reduced to s...

  So here we are — in a world where the law of nations bends not before truth , but before power . The International Criminal Court did what it was built to do: issue an arrest warrant for a man accused of orchestrating mass death — Benjamin Netanyahu. The warrants were not symbolic. They were meant to say, no one is above the law . And yet, what followed was the same tragic theatre we’ve come to expect from the so-called “civilized” world — a chorus of hesitation, hypocrisy , and diplomatic cowardice dressed in the language of “procedure” and “realpolitik.” A Handful Who Still Remember What Justice Means A few countries — just a handful — dared to speak the words the world needed to hear. Ireland stood firm, saying it would absolutely respect and implement the ICC warrant. The Netherlands , with admirable clarity, said it “ implements the Rome Statute 100%.” Canada , Spain , Norway , and New Zealand — all reaffirmed their commitment to the principles they helped bu...