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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 10, 2026, 1:38 AM

Zionism = Racism: The West’s Useful Idiots

Slogans of destruction do not generate their own light; they survive entirely on the patronage of tyrannical regimes. The United Nations General Assembly proved this axiom on November 10, 1975, when 72 states—mobilized by Soviet Cold War machinations and...

Prakash Bishunke

Oct 8, 2026, 3:50 PM

Nepal may have forgotten October 7. I cannot

Mourners and security personnel walk behind a truck carrying the coffin of Bipin Joshi, the slain Nepali hostage, during a funeral ceremony at his hometown in Kanchanpur on October 21, 2025. (Prakash Chandra Timilsena / AFP)

We young Nepalis came to Israel to learn how to farm. Three years later, our own country doesn't care about the losses we suffered there

Oct 5, 2026, 12:01 PM

Time to Undo the UN?

It’s happened again. For the second time since moving the Philippines, I feel ashamed of this country I’ve come to love. The first disappointment occurred when the government deported former president Rodrigo Duterte to the Netherlands for trial on alleged...

Sep 30, 2026, 11:36 PM

A Coalition Against Antisemitism at World’s Top Rights Body

Headlines in major media outlets would have you believe that good news is hard to come by. Indeed, positive developments rarely get wide coverage. So, when one does arrive, it’s important that we take notice. For the sixth consecutive year,...

Paul James Kearns

Sep 30, 2026, 12:12 AM

“Genocide” “Ignorance, Hypocrisy, Stupidity” Yup, it’s those football matches.

Young Arab Israelis Playing football in Jaffa-Tel Aviv.

We are now in a bizarre state of purgatory between those two matches. In case anybody has completely missed this increasingly sorry and bitter saga, the controversy surrounding UEFA Nations League matches between Ireland and Israel has occupied an extraordinary...

Sep 29, 2026, 4:52 PM

Are British MPs’ social-media activities helping fuel antisemitism in Britain?

UK Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband. Image created by the author

At what point does legitimate political campaigning become something more consequential? That is a question Britain urgently needs to ask about the extraordinary social-media output of some Members of the UK Parliament whose public campaigning appears to be overwhelmingly concentrated...

Sep 29, 2026, 12:44 PM

At the UN, Iran Won the Image. Israel Must Fight for the Truth

UN assembly - courtesy of Shutterstock

The most revealing moment at this year’s United Nations General Assembly did not come from the podium. It came from the delegates who rose from their seats and walked out as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to speak. The...

Sep 29, 2026, 12:32 PM

India Would Not Join the Netanyahu Walkout

As diplomats streamed out of the UN General Assembly during Benjamin Netanyahu’s address, India remained in its seat. New Delhi’s decision was less a vote for Israel than a declaration that Indian foreign policy will not be dictated by...

Kostis Konstantinou

Sep 29, 2026, 11:14 AM

The Walkout, the Empty Seats, and the Story Sold

Hiram Johnson, the American senator — not Aeschylus, as often claimed — is credited with saying that truth is the first casualty of war. Nowhere has that seemed more apt than in Gaza. We have had the absurdities about genocide; fairy...

Sep 29, 2026, 11:10 AM

When the Message Comes Attached to a Rock

I am reading Hopes and Fears, by Robert Evans and Michael Thompson, a book meant to enlighten school leaders and teachers about some of the challenges we face in education. One concept really stayed with me. The authors talk about...

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