Hamid Dabashi

Jan 18, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Hamid Dabashi

These days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes time from his busy schedule slaughtering Palestinian women, their children, and the rest of their families to send messages of love and solidarity to Iranian women. The beleaguered war criminal kindly assures them how much he and his entire settler colony support their struggles for liberation. The messages sound surreal. But they are real.

Dec 5, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Joseph A. Massad |Hamid Dabashi

I read The New York Times daily as a barometer - as a farmer would heed a bellwether, or an old-fashioned European anthropologist would stare at the behaviour of a faraway tribe - to see which way the liberal Zionist wind is blowing.

Nov 1, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Mohamed Hashem |Imran Mullah |Hamid Dabashi

African-American writer and public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates has said he doesn't "give a fuck" if he is sidelined in the media for calling Israel's war on Gaza a genocide. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with Middle East Eye, the award-winning author discussed his new book, , his evolving views on Israel and Palestine and the 2024 US election, amongst other issues.

Oct 31, 2024 | middleeasteye.net | Hamid Dabashi

These days, as we get closer to D-Day for the US presidential elections, The New York Times is publishing one article after another about Donald Trump and fascism. "John Kelly, the Trump White House's longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that Donald Trump met the definition of a fascist," The Times reports. "Is It Fascism?" asks another piece. Robert Paxton, a leading historian, once thought the label was overused but has now changed his mind in the face of "Trumpism".

Oct 20, 2024 | commondreams.org | Hamid Dabashi

The United States is the single most powerful supporter of the Israeli settler colony. The U.S. government heavily arms and gives political cover to Israel, and considers the people at the mercy of its aggression as America's enemies. And president after president, Republican and Democrat, has enabled Israel to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and even genocide with total impunity.