2+ hour, 51+ min ago   (186+ words) Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif has called for a “united military front” against Israel, calling it “a threat to the entire Muslim world”. In an interview with Pakistan’s Geo News, after the country signed a landmark defence agreement with Turkey…...

14+ hour, 3+ min ago   (355+ words) A French court has upheld the six-month closure of a mosque near Paris in a case that has raised fresh concerns over the state’s policing of Islamic belief and worship. The Montreuil Administrative Court on Friday rejected an attempt to…...

21+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1218+ words) Domination, according to philosopher Antonio Gramsci, is the capacity to coerce, to compel obedience through force. Hegemony is leadership secured through consent - an order that feels natural to those who live under it, so minds acquiesce before bodies are made…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (798+ words) Nearly one in five people referred to Britain's controversial Prevent counter-extremism programme had autism recorded as a condition, according to new Home Office figures, raising fresh concerns over the scheme's impact on neurodivergent people. Analysis of the figures show that…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1264+ words) Elon Musk is back in the public eye - this time, to reassure us he’s “not a racist”. Last month, in an interview with the Economist’s editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Musk shared his thoughts on several of his pet projects: artificial…...

2+ day, 26+ min ago   (1133+ words) Gadi Eisenkot last week became the latest Israeli politician to pledge to form a "Zionist majority" government if he became Israel's next prime minister. The phrase is widely understood as ruling out a coalition with Palestinian Arab parties to unseat…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1055+ words) "I wasn't allowed to take anything with me when I left Gaza," Omar tells me. "You were only allowed to go out with your T-shirt and trousers. Otherwise, I wanted to bring you a gift: a home blessing made of…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (872+ words) Decades before the Zionist movement’s inception in the late 19th century, the German Jewish thinker Moses Hess proposed in his contentious manuscript Rome and Jerusalem: The Last National Question (1862) that a Jewish state be established through settlements in Palestine as “socialist…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (189+ words) Middle East Eye Exclusive: Cambridge University backtracks on divesting from arms companies The University of Cambridge has backtracked on a move towards divesting from all weapons companies, Middle East Eye can reveal. According to documents seen by MEE, on 16 April…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1344+ words) This year, few public figures have enjoyed as resounding a send-off as the newspaper columnist Rod Liddle. Mr Liddle, who died this week, is being hailed as a truth-teller for our times whose trenchant columns "upset all the right people…...