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1 week ago | 
thenationalnews.com | Janine di Giovanni
Relatives over the body of journalist Ahmed Mansur at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 8, 2025. A media outlet affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement on April 8, announced the death of an employee in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip.
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1 month ago | 
thenationalnews.com | Janine di Giovanni
A member of the Syrian security forces stands guard as crowds gather to commemorate the 14th anniversary of the uprising against Syria's former president Bashar Al Assad in Homs on Saturday. With the formation of a new government in Damascus, the country now faces an unprecedented opportunity for real change. AFP
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1 month ago | 
thenationalnews.com | Janine di Giovanni
A poster of Robert Hopkins' photograph of Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin together after negotiations at the Yalta Conference in Moscow in 1945. AFP
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2 months ago | 
thenationalnews.com | Janine di Giovanni
A Palestinian woman holds the hand of her daughter in Gaza City, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Reuters
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thenationalnews.com | Janine di Giovanni
Why are Americans so blind to what’s really happening in Gaza? It is incumbent on all of us who are able to shine a light on the darkest places
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Brendan O’Neill |Douglas Murray |Ian O’Doherty |Janine di Giovanni
Every good reporter knows you never bury the lede. You never smother the key point of a story with fluff and verbiage. And yet that’s exactly what much of the media is doing in its coverage of the Battle of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. They’re burying, if not outright hiding, the most vital, most unsettling part of this tale — namely, that a neo-fascist militia is using a hospital as a base from which to plot the murder of Israel’s soldiers and citizens.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
thespectator.com | Michael Nazir-Ali |Richard Dawkins |Janine di Giovanni |Douglas Murray
When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis, who have toppled Bashar al-Assad) had systematically destroyed and desecrated the town’s churches and monasteries. Orthodox nuns were kidnapped and held to ransom, only freed after the Syrian government agreed to release extremist prisoners.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Janine di Giovanni
On a steamy August morning in 2019, I went to Sunday mass in Gaza City’s Church of the Holy Family. It’s a simple stone building, built in 1974, and shares a compound with a school attended by 500 children, not all of them Catholic. Today, in war time, it is a refuge for hundreds of displaced Gazans whose homes have been destroyed since the Hamas-Israel war began.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
vanityfair.com | Janine di Giovanni
Last Sunday morning, as one family’s half-century of despotic rule came to an end, I kept thinking back to another December Sunday morning, eight years earlier. For decades as a journalist and academic, I’d been documenting the human rights abuses inflicted by the regimes of tyrant Hafez al-Assad (who took power in 1971) and his equally tyrannical son Bashar al-Assad (who had ruled since 2000).
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thenationalnews.com | Janine di Giovanni
The bodies of victims are covered with blankets following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, Gaza last month. AFP
