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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Syma Mohammed |Joe Gill
Friday, 20 June, marks International Refugee Day, but celebrations across the US have been muted since the Trump administration’s 20 January refugee ban remains firmly in place. Since the ban was implemented, around 12,000 refugees who had security screenings and were booked for travel to the US had their flights cancelled. Another approximately 108,000 remaining refugees who had been “conditionally approved” to come to the US remain stranded in precarious situations overseas.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Reem Aouir |Joe Gill
A series of clips from an interview between prominent US conservative broadcaster Tucker Carlson and US Senator Ted Cruz have gone viral, igniting controversy over the senator’s foreign policy positions and apparent gaps in basic geopolitical knowledge about Iran.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Alex MacDonald |Joe Gill
US air strikes on Yemen have led to an "unprecedented" death toll in the country, according to a new report by a monitoring group. Airwars analysed hundreds of open source civilian harm claims and concluded that US President Donald Trump's bombardment of Yemen has been more deadly than any of his predecessors'. The report suggests Trump's military campaign has killed almost as many civilians in 52 days as in the previous 23 years of US military action against Yemen.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
US Senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders introduced legislation on Monday to prevent the use of federal funds for any "illegal wars” in or against Iran without approval from Congress. Sanders introduced the "No War Against Iran Act", which contains an exception for self-defence as enshrined in the War Powers Act and applicable US law. The move follows Israel launching unprovoked air strikes and drone attacks on Iran on Friday, prompting Tehran to launch retaliatory strikes.
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1 week ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill
The abductions began in the garment sector of Los Angeles outside a Home Depot store. The targets of the raids by US President Donald Trump’s masked immigration agents were the working-class Latino Americans who do the low-paid service and farm jobs in America. Among those seized were a woman who was nine months pregnant. Churchgoers. Tourists. Parents dropping kids at school. Farmworkers chased through the fields.
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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Ghalia Mohamed |Joe Gill
Ahmed Moussa, a prominent pro-government presenter in Egypt, has taken to social media in criticism of a grassroots convoy heading towards Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's siege on the Palestinian enclave, calling the effort a "ploy to embarrass Egypt". The Sumud Convoy - which means steadfastness in Arabic - started in Tunisia this week, with thousands of volunteers from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Algeria.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill |Hassan Abdulrazzak
It’s 2040, and Palestine has been divided into a number of small states. Two IT department employees in the Gaza municipality manage to hack the International Olympic Committee (IOC) system and submit a prank application to host the 2048 Olympics. To their utter surprise, they win and Gaza becomes the host of the world games. That’s the premise of Ahmed Masoud’s satirical futuristic drama, Application 39, which imagines a world beyond the current catastrophe and genocide.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Jonathan Cook |Joe Gill |Soumaya Ghannoushi
A second Nakba is unfolding, not in secret, not whispered through trembling lips, not passed as rumours between fleeing survivors, but in the full, merciless light of day. It is live-streamed. Captioned. Digitised. A genocide unfolding in high definition and real time. This is no echo of 1948. It is its evolution. Its mutation. The same machinery of erasure, now upgraded, modernised, militarised, and globally broadcast. More ruthless. More unapologetic.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Joe Gill |Jonathan Cook
Who could have imagined 19 months ago that it would take more than a year and a half of Israel slaughtering and starving Gaza’s children for the first cracks to appear in what has been a rock-solid wall of support for Israel from western establishments. Finally, something looks like it may be about to give.
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1 month ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin |Joe Gill
Donald Trump’s administration declared a ceasefire in Yemen last week due to burning through expensive munitions while failing to establish air superiority over the Houthis, according to the New York Times. Citing Washington officials, a report on Monday stated that the Yemeni group shot down numerous American MQ Reaper drones and fired at naval ships in the Red Sea right up until the moment a truce was agreed.
