Since Ahmad al-Sharaa came to power in Syria, the Damascus government has been given carte blanche to use maximum force against any threat to its continued rule, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Palestine champions honoured with Solidarity Iftar
Journalists, campaign groups and protest leaders received recognition from the Muslim community for their courage in standing against genocide amid growing police repression and media smears, reports BEN CHACKO
Muslim Association of Britain president Anas Altikriti gives an award to Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos
Keir Starmer’s hiring Tim Allan from Tory-led Strand Partners is another illustration of Labour’s corporate-influence world where party differences matter less than business connections, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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The truth will out: we are here to unveil the full scale of the government’s complicity in genocide and to hold it to account for the monstrous bloodshed in Palestine, writes JEREMY CORBYN
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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PALESTINE solidarity champions were honoured with special awards by the Muslim Association of Britain at a Ramadan iftar on Sunday evening.
The In Faith and Solidarity: Honouring our Movement iftar brought together an audience of multiple faiths and none to hear speeches and prayers for Palestine before breaking the Ramadan fast together.
Among those honoured was Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos, who said his regular presence among the Jewish bloc on Palestine demos was an important way of demonstrating that they are not the “hate marches” depicted in Establishment media and were a welcoming space for Jews.
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