Zwelivelile ‘Mandla’ Mandela travels a lot. He is an ambassador for the global campaign to return to Palestine, a campaign that lays emphasis on the fact that millions of Palestinians were expelled during the last 75 years from their territories. Mandela recently visited Istanbul, Türkiye, to take part in the Conference of Parliamentarians for Al Quds and expressed his support ...
Last week, in response to the Israeli atrocities in Gaza, Türkiye announced that it decided to completely sever economic ties with Israel. The meeting between the government and the main opposition leader after many years received a large press and public attention. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan also made important statements in his broad interview with Al Arabiya. Decision to fully ...
Reporting from Cairo, Egypt Ending the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has been going on for months, is no longer a bilateral issue that can be ended by settling the concerns of both parties, each vis-à-vis the other. The war has turned into a complex and intertwined issue, with international and regional parties seeking to seize more gains ...
The organization “Muslim Interaktiv” made a demonstration on 29th April in Hamburg and shook Germany. The demonstration was about Gaza. However, not only that: the demonstration praised the “caliphate” and referred to it as a solution to the problems Muslims are suffering from. Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated, “All criminal offenses must be prosecuted”. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser called the demonstration ...
Seeing thousands of students protesting on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, located in the city of Berkeley, California, reminded us of the buildings we studied in forty years ago. California already harbored the most progressive segments of American society. It was a region that always stood up whenever the US created turmoil with imperialist intentions. We ...
Hamas has accepted a ceasefire deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar. But Israel says, it will continue to operate in Gaza despite Hamas’ response to the deal. So, the drama will go on for some times. It is a very sad saga, because an official familiar with Israeli thinking says Israeli officials are examining the cease-fire proposal approved by Hamas. ...
Israel continues to attack Gaza. A critical phase of the offensive remains the Rafah border crossing and the Sinai Peninsula. Parallel to the developments in Rafah and Sinai, there rises some voices in Egypt questioning the Camp David agreement with some openly advocating to discard it. We asked Ramazan Bursa, an expert on Egypt, what Egypt’s attitude towards these developments ...
By Dure Akram, Lahore, Pakistan Going by assumptions, many sitting outside Pakistan conclude it is “divided, disorganized, economically backward, corrupt, violent, unjust, often savagely oppressive towards the poor and women, and home to extremely dangerous forms of extremism and terrorism.” However convincing as it may seem, the international narrative does not consider the resilience of both nation and state to ...
Last week in Türkiye, the top agenda item was a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Hamas leaders. The visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri to Türkiye, in connection with the hot agenda in the Middle East, was another agenda item. The credit agreement reached with the World Bank was also on the economic agenda. Meeting between Erdoğan ...
By Yiğit Saner The Kyiv regime is persecuting, denouncing, and linking Ukrainian Muslim religious scholars, citizens and institutions that criticize the genocide against the Palestinians to “Islamic terrorism”. The documents you are about to read expose the attitude of the Zelensky administration towards Muslims under American pressure and to curry favor with Israel. The internal correspondence of the Ukrainian State, ...