In this text, Mostafa Barghouthi draws up the macabre balance sheet of the last year and clearly announces what awaits the Palestinians if nothing is done: the annexation of the rest of the occupied territories, the continuation of apartheid and the completion of ethnic cleansing. While affirming the continuation of resistance, ‘whatever the cost’.

In this article published on December 16 2022, Bertrand Badie, emeritus professor at Sciences Po Paris, considers the evolution of the Russian-Ukrainian war and attempts to "shed light on this new situation by identifying the characteristics that make it unprecedented".

The risk of seeing the United Nations increasingly disunited is not a simple exercise for Sciences Po students ; nor for anti-globalization activists. This is an issue for all Changemakers, Peacemakers and Troublemakers, i.e. those (readers included) who challenge the status quo and want to make (…)

In a critical and committed book, several researchers, most of them Palestinians, question the desire to create a state, which has been at the heart of Palestinian political strategy for a century. By questioning this state nationalism and the renunciations it has provoked, they open up new (…)

The ‘new imperialism’ debate suffers from the omission of subimperialism. A review of recent analysis of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), focusing on global governance, accumulation, class struggle and resource extractivism.

A group of 122 Palestinian and Arab academics, journalists and intellectuals express their concerns about the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and the way this definition has been applied, interpreted and deployed in several countries of Europe and North America.

The “peace process” which culminated in the Oslo Accords in 1993 has failed to ignore two key issues: the nature of the State of Israel and that of the right of return of the Palestinians expelled in 1948. However, in 2005, a United Nations special rapporteur, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, defined “Principles” on the return of the housing of deportees or displaced. Precise and detailed, they deserve to be re-read in the light of the international community’s continuing passivity on Palestinian rights.

The change of position of the Israeli organisation "B’Tselem", which now refers to the regime in the areas under Israeli control as "apartheid", has triggered many debates on the reasons for this change of position and its reception at the international level. They are in fact explained by the influence of Israeli, American and European political interests on the work and motivations of human rights institutions.