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  In the city of Sambhal, the future of India is being rehearsed in plain sight. Three-quarters of the city’s 300,000 residents are Muslim. Yet today, many say they live as if under occupation — their public religious life curtailed, their protests criminalized, their grief surveilled. The spark was a legal challenge to the 16th-century Shahi Jama Masjid , a mosque that Hindu nationalists claim was built over a sacred Hindu site. After a court-ordered archaeological survey, tensions exploded. Police fired tear gas and live rounds. Families say at least five people were killed. Hundreds were booked. Thousands were listed as “unnamed accused,” a legal cloud that can expand at will. Internet shut down. City sealed. Dissent crushed. Sambhal is not an anomaly. It is a method. The Ideological Spine: Hindutva and the RSS To understand Sambhal, one must understand the ideological infrastructure behind it. The (RSS), founded in 1925, promotes Hindutva — the idea that India is fun...

In a world where identity is weaponized and religion is drafted into political armies, the sight of an ultra-Orthodox rabbi standing beside Palestinian flags unsettles nearly everyone. Yet there stands — black coat, beard, sidelocks — calmly declaring something that scrambles modern assumptions: “ Judaism is not Zionism.” For him, this is not rebellion . It is obedience . Affiliated with , a small and highly controversial Haredi sect, Rabbi Beck represents a theological current that predates modern nationalism. His argument is not secular. It is not progressive. It is not post-modern. It is ancient . And that is precisely the point. The Interview That Disturbs Categories In one widely circulated long-form interview, the exchange unfolds with almost disarming simplicity. Interviewer: Rabbi Beck, how can you oppose Israel as a Jewish rabbi? Rabbi Beck: Judaism and Zionism are two completely different things. Judaism is a religion. Zionism is a political movement founded little more ...

  ✦ Francesca Albanese.  “The common enemy of humanity is the system that has enabled the genocide in Palestine — including the financial capital that funds it, the algorithms that obscure it, and the weapons that enable it. It is a system that normalizes destruction as security, occupation as defense, starvation as policy, and silence as diplomacy. It is sustained not only by bombs and bullets, but by boardrooms, media narratives, diplomatic shields, and public indifference. The tragedy is not only that Palestinians are being erased — it is that international law is being hollowed out in plain sight. When accountability becomes optional for the powerful, humanity itself becomes collateral damage. The question before us is not merely about Palestine. It is about whether the world still believes in justice, or whether power has finally replaced principle as the highest law.” ✦ The System Is the Crime There is something deeply unsettling about what said. Not because...

Nearly six decades after Israel occupied the West Bank in the aftermath of the , the territory is witnessing its largest civilian displacement since that war. According to reporting by Fatima AbdulKarim and Patrick Kingsley (Feb. 17, 2025), roughly 40,000 Palestinians have fled their homes following a weeks-long Israeli military operation across northern West Bank cities including Jenin, Tulkarem, and areas near Tubas. For Palestinians, this is not just a military episode. It is a historical echo. A Displacement Measured in Generations Many of those now displaced are descendants of refugees uprooted during the 1948 war — the event Palestinians call the Nakba . Entire neighborhoods known as “refugee camps” were originally built to house families expelled or forced to flee during Israel’s creation. Now, history is repeating itself. Residents describe soldiers using loudspeakers to order evacuations. Families left carrying whatever they could hold — bags, blankets, documents, c...

  If you ever wanted to witness how confusion, opportunism, theology, nationalism, and bigotry collide in real time — you didn’t need a medieval church council. You only needed to tune into a meeting of the . There, amid political loyalists and pop-culture appointees, a spectacle unfolded: Zionism was denounced, antisemitic conspiracies were flirted with, and centuries-old theological errors were recycled as if they were fresh revelations. But the deeper issue is not one controversial appointee. The deeper issue is this: What precisely is Zionism? And how does it intersect — or collide — with antisemitism? Because in today’s discourse, the two are either falsely merged or lazily separated without thought. Let us disentangle them carefully. 1. What Is Zionism — Precisely? Zionism , in its original and political form, is a 19th-century nationalist movement. It emerged in Europe not from theology, but from crisis. The father of modern political Zionism, , was not respon...

By Malik Mukhtar February 2026 It took only eight hours of indirect talks in Muscat to trigger alarm bells in Jerusalem. Within days, Israeli Prime Minister announced an emergency trip to Washington to meet U.S. President . Eight hours of diplomacy. An emergency flight across an ocean. This is not about scheduling. It is about fear — fear of exclusion, fear of miscalculation, fear that history might be moving without Israel at the table. The Trauma That Still Echoes Officially, Netanyahu insists that any negotiations with Iran must include limits on ballistic missiles and the dismantling of Tehran’s regional proxy network. That demand is not abstract. Missiles from Iran and its allies have left scars — visible and psychological. Northern Israeli towns remain partially displaced. The memory of rocket sirens is not theoretical; it is nightly lived experience. The strikes last summer during the so-called “12-Day War” were not distant battlefield statistics. They were direct h...

  On 13 February 2026 , the delivered a landmark judgment: the UK government’s decision to designate as a terrorist organisation was unlawful and disproportionate . The ruling strikes at the heart of one of the most powerful tools available to the British state — proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000.  It is a rare judicial rebuke of executive authority in national security matters. What Was the Ban? In July 2025, the Home Office formally proscribed Palestine Action, making: Membership a criminal offence Public support punishable by up to 14 years in prison Displaying symbols potentially illegal The decision was initially taken by Home Secretary , Yvette Cooper who argued the group’s activities — including break-ins at RAF bases, property damage, and direct action targeting — met the statutory definition of terrorism. Proscription is among the most severe restrictions the UK government can impose on a political organisation. It effectively places a group i...

In an interview with the Dutch newspaper NRC,  President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), delivered a stark assessment of the war in Gaza: “ What we have seen in Gaza exceeds all legal, ethical, moral and humanitarian norms. ” For an institution known for restraint, neutrality, and careful language, this was extraordinary. But it was not an isolated remark. Over the past year, Spoljaric has issued a series of deeply troubling statements about Gaza — warnings that go beyond political critique and into the realm of systemic humanitarian collapse. “Humanity Is Failing in Gaza” In multiple interviews and public remarks, Spoljaric has framed the crisis not merely as a military conflict, but as a moral test for the international system: “Humanity is failing in Gaza.” This is not diplomatic phrasing. It is an indictment of collective inaction. When the guardian of the Geneva Conventions says humanity itself is failing , it means the norms meant to...

  War does not only destroy buildings. It destroys those who heal. In February 2025, The Guardian , working with Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), published one of the most disturbing investigations of the Gaza war: the detention and alleged torture of Palestinian doctors taken from hospitals and ambulances and transferred into Israeli prisons. These were not combatants. They were surgeons. Consultants. Hospital directors. And according to their testimonies, their suffering was deliberate. Arrested From Hospitals According to The Guardian , more than 160 healthcare workers from Gaza were believed to be in Israeli detention, including over 20 doctors . Many described being taken directly from hospitals during military operations. One detained doctor told The Guardian : “I was taken from the hospital while still wearing my medical uniform.” Others described being blindfolded, handcuffed, and transported to detention facilities without formal charges....