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Rebranding Genocide

Selma Dabbagh

The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in the West Bank, where armed settlers...

Seventeen Minutes of Rain

Hassan Ayman Herzallah

In the first week of November I was sitting with my mother in the tent in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza. It was 9 a.m. on one of the most beautiful...

Death over a Low Heat

Alexandra Reza

On 30 October, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National introduced a bill to revoke the 1968 accord and put Algerian immigrants on the same footing as...

Fake it till you make it

Erin L. Thompson

Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty “Brown Trews” Tokeley: Smuggler...

Shabana Mahmood’s Triangulations

Jason Okundaye

Shabana Mahmood is in a different situation from previous minority ethnic home secretaries who were accused of catering to far-right racist attitudes...
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