Iqbal Jassat

  • “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations”
    by Ronen Bergman
    Publisher: Random House; Illustrated edition (January 30, 2018)
    Language: English
    Hardcover: 784 pages
    ISBN-10: […]

  • Following my Facebook posting earlier this month in which I applauded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for his firm stance against “normalization” with Israel, a friend posed an interesting query.

    He asked […]

  • Misreading and deliberately so, the causes for the fury across the Muslim world and remaining defiant in challenging Islam, French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to “fight to the death”.

    In a memorial to […]

  • The haste to silence critiques of the apartheid regime of Israel and resort to scurrilous allegations of “antisemitism” comes ironically during the week when South Africa remembers the 43rd anniversary of Black […]

  • Islamophobia as a world-wide phenomenon has become increasingly menacing in many parts of Europe and in the United States.

    As it grows it’s tentacles with the direct, bold, and active participation of white s […]

  • As Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu stepped up to the podium flanked by the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the UAE to sign what has been hailed as a “historic peace agreement” between Israel and the two Gul […]

  • One of Palestine’s most articulate voices, Diana Buttu, who possesses impeccable credentials as a former adviser to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), has made an urgent call to d […]

  • Despite the concerns raised by Amnesty about wide-scale human rights abuses by Mozambique security forces, including detention/torture of journalists and civil rights activists in Cabo Delgado, it seems not to […]

  • While Lebanon’s preliminary explanation offered by its government is that the devastating explosions in Beirut resulted from explosive material stored at a warehouse near the port, the cause is yet to be […]

  • Is it a case of much ado about nothing or does it pose a significant challenge to undermine key components of Israel’s multi-layered myths?

    From the heated backlash unleashed following an essay authored by […]

  • South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogeong Mogeong has come under intense fire for publically expressing his love for Israel.

    His pro-Israeli comments on an online platform hosted by the Jerusalem Post have come […]

  • Does the current wave of protests across America sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd, present an existential threat to Israel?
    Astounding as it sounds, Israel’s propagandists and defenders have been […]

  • As many parts of the world express solidarity with Palestine’s struggle to liberate themselves and their land from Zionism’s settler-colonial project, we acknowledge the profound wisdom and foresight of Iran’s […]

  • A brutal legacy of Apartheid South Africa’s notorious assault on human rights was the violent enforcement of detention without trial.

    Scores of people targeted as opponents of white minority rule and classified […]

  • As the corona pandemic overwhelms the globe bringing to a halt all social, cultural and economic activities across the world, Turkey is in the firing line.

    Bizarrely it is earning the wrath of Israel for […]

  • Iqbal Jassat wrote a new post 4 years ago

    While the world is on tenterhooks as it confronts the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Iran is among the countries hardest hit.

    Although the epicenter seems to have shifted to Western Europe, Iran’s […]

  • Iqbal Jassat wrote a new post 4 years ago

    Has India under the leadership of Narendra Modi adopted a disastrous route in sharp contrast from a proud tradition of anti-colonialism to neo-nazism?

    Historians familiar with the era of British colonialism in […]

  • Shortly following her visit to South Africa, Angela Merkel’s government made a shocking announcement in defense of Israel’s horrendous record of serious human rights violations.

    Germany took the shameful form […]

  • Undoubtedly masses of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and millions of their compatriots living in squalor as refugees across the Arab world, would be appalled if not livid that the Trump administration […]

  • Despite conflicting official statements by the Trump administration about the reason behind its decision to target Iran’s most celebrated military official, the U.S. is adamant that its assassination of Qasem […]

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