Ashraf Nubani

While Israel’s apparent assassination of Hamas’ top leader – and cease-fire negotiator – Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital has heightened tensions in an already tense situation, the most important lesson to be learned from this escalation is that Israel is dangerously desperate. As a result, the US is in danger of being dragged into a … Continue reading “Killing Hamas Leader: An Act of Israeli Desperation”

Twenty-five-year-old Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty member of the United States Air Force, died on Sunday after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC as an act of protest against the slaughter in Gaza. Unfortunately, the act is noteworthy not because of the resulting suicide but for the underlying motivation … Continue reading “Desperate for Peace: From Tunisia to Gaza”

This May 15th, Palestinians commemorated seventy-one years of diaspora due to the founding of the state of Israel. Over 400 villages, towns and urban centers of Mandate Palestine were ethnically cleansed of their inhabitants. In that fateful May of 1948, some 750,000 millennium-old dwellers of the Holy Land, both Muslim and Christian, were expelled from … Continue reading “The Nakba Demands Justice”

This past week the Trump administration has signaled that he intends to officially designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. This is an absurd and damaging decision. For most of this very decentralized organization’s 100-year history, it has eschewed and condemned violence. The few Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups that have not completely disavowed violence … Continue reading “Designating the Brotherhood: Squandering Terrorist Resources”