In this issue
The Big Story
From accord to Apartheid
As extremists run rampant in Israel’s halls of power, Zoe Holman traces the origins of apartheid and its effects for Palestinians pushing back on the ground.
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Harvesting oppression
Issam Adwan speaks to Palestinian farmers about how Israel is attacking their agriculture – while profiting from their lands.
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Sanctions Mark II
Andrew Feinstein calls for international mobilization of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions strategy that helped end South African apartheid.
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Gaza’s fragile ‘peace’
The Strip is under renewed assault by Israel. Aziz Hamdi Al-Masry writes from Gaza about the costs of siege and the prospects of intensified conflict.
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Q&A: Equal citizens, one state?
Cherine Hussein talks the failures of Oslo, the mirage of the ‘two-state solution’ and why Palestinians are increasingly looking to a one state model for justice.
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The art of resistance
As Israel seeks to airbrush Palestinian history from Jerusalem, Frances Leach reports on how culture is both a tool of and weapon against occupation.
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Currents
Boost for Right in Chile
Plus: Borderlines
Introducing: Elly Schlein
Plus: Seriously?
Attacks on trans rights in the US
Journalist imprisoned in Vietnam
Plus: Inequality Watch
Embargoes limit earthquake aid in Syria
Children taken from their parents in Ukraine
Workers take on Meta in Kenya
Reasons to be cheerful
Regulars
Letter from Shapajilla
Stephanie Boyd experiences new life and loss on a night voyage in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Cartoon History: Algeria Conquered
ILYA examines the events and legacy of its colonization by France in the nineteenth century.
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The Interview
Leila Khaled speaks to Marta Vidal about the Palestinian struggle and why she hi-jacked a plane.
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Hall of Infamy – Itamar Ben-Gvir
Spouting hate is a lark when you’re in power – just ask Israel’s National Security Minister
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Temperature Check
Should we believe the hype about electric cars? Danny Chivers assesses the state of play
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Agony Uncle
Should I stay or should I go? NI’s new Agony Uncle advises a support worker who’s sick of their boss.
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What if… the West stopped exporting second-hand clothing?
Alice McCool calls time on fashion waste.
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Country profile: Egypt
Opinion
Features
‘I’ve painted the hallway red’
Richard Matoušek reports from São Paulo, Brazil on the movement providing long-term housing through mass-occupations.
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From the archive: No room at the inn
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes, in 2002, on the racism behind Fortress Europe’s deadly policies in the Mediterranean.
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The Long Read – Now for implementation!
The Ogiek of the Mau Forest, Kenya, have been displaced from their ancestral land since British colonization, but could a landmark reparations ruling change things for them and Indigenous people across the region? Amy Hall reports
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Mixed Media
Mixed media: music
Cowboy Junkies, Such Ferocious Beauty; Faizal Mostrixx, Mutations.
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Mixed media: film
Name Me Lawand directed and written by Edward Lovelace; The Damned Don’t Cry directed and written by Fyzal Boulifa
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Mixed media: books
The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto; Macunaíma by Mario de Andrade; Out of Sri Lanka, ed. Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Travett; Black Oot Here by Francesca Sobande and laylaroxanne hill
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Mixed media: Spotlight
Subi Shah discusses courage, grief and cultural struggle with British author Michael Rosen.
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Mixed Media: Hot Docs
Richard Swift and Heather Macdonald review the highlights of Canada’s premier documentaries festival.
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