Palestine

Lessons still to be learned: Guantánamo in our minds

As the US and UK bomb Yemen on the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, Arzu reviews her thoughts from 2012 about the narratives of Islamophobia that facilitate this violence   Yesterday was the anniversary of the opening of Camp X-Ray, the notorious US prison camp and

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VIDEO: Excerpt from The Message by Mak Dizdar

I first came across this poem, when it was put up on the wall of an office I worked at by (I am guessing) Demir Mahmutćehajić , and which followed us and Massoud Shadjareh and our other friends to Islamic Human Rights Commission in 1997. It is a powerful reminder of the resilience of

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VIDEO: Gaza Genocide Day 7

Arzu discusses the death toll from Israeli war on Gaza rises to 2,215, including 724 children on day 7 of the Israeli onslaught against Gaza. If player below does not work visit this page.

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‘The Rising’

Feel free to share, but please credit the author (Arzu Merali) and the photographer Sara Russell. Written during Operation Cast Lead, 2009 Updated July 2023 The oppression continues, but the situation is markedly changed. نَصْرٌ من اللَّهِ وَفَتْحٌ قَرِيبٌ Copyright words (c) Arzu Merali Copyright image (c) Sara Russell. Buy an original

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Revd. Stephen Sizer Tribunal, Day 2

Why are the Board of Deputies maligning an interfaith initiative to achieve peace and justice in Palestine asks Arzu Merali? Around the world on day 2 (see Mick Napier’s video from Day 2 below). In summary, everyone who goes to Iran is suspect; Iranians are anti-Jewish; the background to a photo from

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Solidarity with Revd Stephen Sizer

Arzu Merali reflects on the targeting of Revd. Sizer, and the accusations made. Revd Stephen Sizer’s Church of England hearing upon accusations of anti-semitism began yesterday.  Amongst the accusation levelled at him (all of which are spurious and made, it appears, to malign his anti-racist work and muddy the waters around pro-Palestinian

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