Palestine

2025: You Will Burn My House Down – Bosnia, Palestine

Originally written in July 2015 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, this piece by Arzu Merali has been revised by its author for the current context, including updating footnotes, and adding description which now requires addition for those unfamiliar with the essay’s contents.   Listen to the essay here

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Your Silence and Stupidity have been Noted

It’s two days since the Zionist entity launched attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran.  A clear extension of its war on Gaza, yet there has been notable silence from civil society figures and online commentators.  These ethical lapses will be remembered. Its thundering – the silence.  And it makes me wonder. 

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January: A Time for (Cease)Fires – Everything is Connected

Arzu reflects on the month of January thus far, including the current ceasefire in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians, the LA wildfires, and Holocaust Memorial. It is midway through January, -ish. People are celebrating the ceasefire in Gaza.  It is a difficult moment. Of course, any stay in the bloodletting is

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Palestine is the Only Choice

The price of ‘victory’ in Syria has come at the expense of a liberated Palestine, Islamic resistance and the rising new world, argues Arzu. As the shills for the Syrian ‘rebels’ rejoice from London to Tel Aviv, it is clear that any victory in Syria has come at the price of the

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I defy you not to weep

Some notes on these last few weeks from Arzu I was alerted to this short film by Revd Stephen Sizer of Peacemakers.  Based on Zeina Azzam’s poem ‘Write my name’, it crushed me.  I demand you watch it.  I defy you not to weep.   I will put a link and the

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VIDEO: Eid In Palestine

Arzu was invited to speak alongside Batool Subeiti and Syed Muhsin Abbas once more on Perspectives with Faiza Naqvi on Hidayat TV to discuss Eid in Palestine, the UK elections and more.     Starting with the passing of Eid and the genocide in Palestine, the participants moved on to discuss the

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Naomi Klein and the End of Zionism

The leading liberal author Naomi Klein has publicly called for an exodus of Jews from Zionism.  This is momentous, particularly to those who remember her pro-Zionist interventions of yesteryear.  Arzu discusses why, notwithstanding this welcome news, the movement for a better world needs to still hold those who upheld the old world

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