Remembering Edward Said at a Time of Palestinian Tragedy
Text of Richard Falk’s Edward W Said Memorial Lecture: ‘The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said’, at The American University in Cairo on November 4, 2023.
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Genocide in Gaza – Five Articles
A Textbook Case of Genocide; Impending Genocide; Over 1 Million Displaced in Gaza, Unprecedented Destruction: UNRWA; World Health Organisation Condemns Israel’s Evacuation Orders to Hospitals in Northern Gaza; Dispatches from Gaza.
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Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories
Western media have shown far more interest and have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as unofficial spokespersons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
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Millions March in Global Protests Against Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Over the past two weeks, tens of millions of people around the world have participated in mass demonstrations, protests and marches against the US and NATO-backed Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza.
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The British Roots of the Conflict in Palestine
While the proximate causes of Israeli apartheid, occupation, and genocide clearly lie squarely at the feet of Israel and its chief sponsor the United States, the United Kingdom has a special responsibility to make right its historical sins in Palestine—and everywhere else.
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Uprising in Palestine
Do the Palestinians have a right to resist the non-stop aggression to which they are subjected? Absolutely. There is no moral, political or military equivalence as far as the two sides are concerned.
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Israel Is Mistaken. The Terror Israel Inflicts Is the Terror it will Get. – Three Articles
Israel is convinced greater levels of violence will finally crush Palestinian aspirations; it is mistaken. Also: “The Violence of the Oppressed” – No one should cheer the slaughter in Israel; but to forebear from cheering is not to condemn. Also: “Human Rights Watch Confirms White Phosphorus Used in Gaza”.
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Weapons of Mass Lies
Until the community of onlookers imposes the same standards upon the colonizer as they do the colonized; upon Jews and Christians as they do Muslims; on skin tones of white as they do of color, the history of yesterday and that unfolding before us today remains locked in a dismissal falsified story-line.
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Geopolitics of the War in Gaza – 3 Articles
“US Faces Defeat in Geopolitical War in Gaza”; “Iran Warns Israel Against its Apocalyptic War”; and “The Geopolitics of Al-Aqsa Flood”: Global focus just shifted from Ukraine to Palestine. This new arena of confrontation will ignite further competition between the Atlanticist and Eurasian blocs.
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Five Things to Remember When Israel ‘Defends Itself’
Here are five important facts to remember as the biggest and best-financed military in the Middle East “defends itself” against a blockaded refugee camp of 2.3 million people. Also: “Horrific. Unjustified. Morally Wrong. But ‘Unprovoked’?”.
