Iqbal Jassat

The targeted assassination of Abu Mahdi al Muhandis and Qasim Soleimani by America’s imperial forces under the command of Donald Trump, has been met with shock and disbelief by most of the world.

Here was an […]

Whoever has any suspicion that the ICC’s reluctance to prosecute Israel for war crimes is due to pro-Israel bias by its prosecutor, have been spot on.

In a timely intervention, South Africa’s highly respected […]

India today is in frantic haste to solidify its position as a champion of Hindutva, which loosely translated means upholding rightwing religious bigotry at any cost.

It’s on an upward trajectory following the […]

The entirely predictable expectation from US President Donald Trump to cuddle up to Israel’s rightwing lobby at a time he is faced with one of the severest challenges to his presidency: impeachment.

Having […]

Has Netanyahu’s criminal conduct grown in leaps and bounds? It certainly has even though his coterie of fellow thugs and band of diehard white supremacists deny it.

The folly and contempt whereby he continues […]

The latest UN report on Egypt’s imprisonment and death in detention of the country’s first democratically elected president is a damning indictment of the military dictatorship in power.

Though the stinging […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan’s mission in Syria has bounced from the White House to the Kremlin.

Though skepticism abounds about whether his goal to flesh out a safety corridor inside Syria will be […]

Has US President Donald Trump handed Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan a poisoned chalice?

This is the view of a well-known and highly respected analyst, Abdel Bari Atwan. His comments published before […]

Much to the disappointment of South Africa’s trade unions and human rights organizations, the Competition Tribunal (CT) has ignored their objections by handing over a dairy company to an entity from apartheid […]

Why is it that war criminals in their capacity as heads of states who despite being consistently in breach of global conventions governing human rights, are treated like royalty?

What sets them apart from […]

The irony of Narendra Modi’s utterly reckless move on Kashmir is that it has thrust the plight of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir from oblivion to the full glare of global media.

That the United Nations […]

All it took was a blink of an eye to realizing that India’s rightwing government outmaneuvered old-style colonialism by repackaging it as “democracy in action”.

Whether described as a double takeover or […]

Is South Africa among the countries standing aside as the world is confronted with illegal moves by the Trump Administration to facilitate the complete annihilation of Palestine by Israel?

Notwithstanding the […]

Isn’t it bizarre if not downright scandalous for the African continent which since the defeat of apartheid and its replacement with a democratic order in South Africa, had disavowed military coups, yet is led by a […]

Is America preparing to go to war with Iran?

It is a question dominating discussions around dinner tables as well as boardrooms. Confined not only to the Middle East, where heightened concerns about the fall […]

The annual Quds Day commemoration for 2019, which is held on the last Friday of Ramadan in many parts of the world, will be distinguished from previous years as new challenges confronting Palestinians come to the […]

If America’s standing in the globe as the “leader of the free world” has been on shaky grounds following its disastrous wars post-9/11, US president Donald Trump has ensured that whatever little credibility it may […]

With the approach of Ramadan, Muslims around the world are expected to be engaged in heightened consciousness to inculcate values of justice, empathy for masses of downtrodden and to embody Islam’s principles of […]

Cynics may call it politicking to garner Muslim votes for the ruling African National Congress (ANC) on the eve of South Africa’s crucial May 2019 national elections.

Others, especially from Israel’s local […]

It ought not to surprise anyone that autocratic Arab regimes, rightwing groups in Europe, Israeli propagandists and a host of right-leaning think tanks, all have a common interest to fuel Islamophobia.

And not […]