Analyst News

15/08/2024

In her book “Over the Influence,” Kara Alaimo argues that brands use “femvertising” to sell women’s empowerment — but it actually exploits them and suppresses real progress toward women’s rights. So why are we still falling for it?

Read an excerpt ⤵️

Wescott says he’s never seen another brand try to send this message to men in an ad ever again. Instead, campaigns by brands telling women what to do — or

09/08/2024

While a dangerous far-right movement was festering in the U.K., our media and politicians distracted us with the specter of “Islamist” extremism.

This week, violent racist mobs terrorized British streets from Liverpool to Bristol to Portsmouth, with cars set alight, buildings looted and police attacked. Dozens more are planned across the country.

For too long, Muslims and “Islamism” have been deemed to be major threats to British society, while white supremacy and neo-Nazism have been allowed to fester just beneath the surface of what is largely a tolerant and multicultural society.

In 2021, 19 out of 20 children aged under 18 who were arrested for terrorism were linked to an extreme rightwing ideology, according to London police.

It’s time we take the threat of far-right nationalistic extremism seriously. The threats to this country are not from Muslims or immigrants. As today’s riots show, the call is coming from inside the house.

Read more about how Muslims and immigrants in the U.K. were demonized and scapegoated by politicians and the media while the threat of the far right was ignored.

https://www.analystnews.org/posts/britain-ignored-its-far-right-threat-and-demonized-muslims-now-racist-mobs-have-spiraled-out-of-control

While a dangerous far-right movement was festering in the U.K., our media and politicians distracted us with the threat of “Islamist” extremism.

06/08/2024

As the U.S. presidential election season heats up, Democrats and Republicans alike rolled out the red carpet for Netanyahu.

05/08/2024

The double standards in the International Olympic Committee treatment of Russia and Israel shows that the playing field is far from equal.

When Russia invaded Ukraine two years earlier, the IOC jumped to condemn Russia and supported Ukrainian athletes, saying “war is the antithesis of the Olympic ideal.” The Russian and Belarusian athletes participating in this year’s Olympic Games – after undergoing a strict vetting process – can’t do so under their country’s flag.

But the 88 Olympians competing as Team Israel are doing so with the IOC’s full-throated support – even though Israel blatantly violated the ancient tradition of the Olympic Truce, and although the Palestinian Olympic Committee reports that some 350 Palestinian athletes have been killed by Israeli forces over the past 10 months.

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01/08/2024

Cognitive dissonance has become a defining characteristic of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the PR campaign surrounding it.

We’re told Israel is acting in self-defense, but we hear the pleas of children trapped in wrecked cars and the IDF machine-gun fire that silences it; we’re assured that western leaders are “deeply concerned” about the civilian death toll, but they keep sending Israel the weapons without which those deaths would not be possible.

Caught between these irreconcilable realities, we’re paralyzed. That may, in fact, be the point.

Read the powerful essay from members of Bystanders No More, a new multinational volunteer organization encouraging ordinary people to speak up for human rights in Palestine. ⤵️

Cognitive dissonance and public delusion have been weaponized to drive Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

01/08/2024

All conflicts have their double binds, their catch-22s. But cognitive dissonance has become a defining characteristic of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the PR campaign surrounding it. We’re told Israel is acting in self-defense, but we hear the pleas of children trapped in wrecked cars and the IDF machine-gun fire that silences it; we’re assured that western leaders are “deeply concerned” about the civilian death toll, but they keep sending Israel the weapons without which those deaths would not be possible.

Caught between these irreconcilable realities, we’re paralyzed. That may, in fact, be the point.

Read the full essay from members of Bystanders No More, a new multinational volunteer organization encouraging ordinary people to speak up for human rights in Palestine, at AnalystNews.org.

23/07/2024

The war devastating Sudan began last year, but each month seems to reveal horrific new facets of the shocking humanitarian crisis facing the Sudanese people. A recent Reuters investigation found 14 mass graveyards in Sudan’s debilitated Darfur region, with satellite images showing rapid escalations in the graves’ number and size.

“It’s not so much the question of whether the genocide is happening,” says Hager Ali, a research fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. “It’s more a question of coverage and attention to that.”

While the humanitarian crisis rivals or even eclipses that of other high-profile conflicts, including the genocide in Gaza, Sudan has received less attention and is far less understood. To learn more about more about the war and why it’s become a forgotten genocide, check out our story at AnalystNews.org.

19/07/2024

Hijab-wearing athletes broke barriers at Olympics past, showing the world that Muslim women belong in sports.

But at this year’s Paris Olympics, France has banned its own athletes from wearing hijabs or other religious symbols.

In a new report, International argues that the ban violates international human rights laws and must be taken seriously by the International Olympic Committee, especially considering that the Paris Olympics boast to be the first Games with full gender parity.

“When the world will be watching its athletes compete for medals and exercising their right to practice sport without discrimination, it should also cast a critical eye on the Olympics host country, which does not apply Olympic values to everyone,” the human rights group said.

Read more at the link in bio.

17/07/2024

Rapper Macklemore has been outspoken in support of Gaza, dropping the protest rap song “Hind’s Hall” and raising funds for the beleaguered UNRWA. But he’s still planning a concert soon in Dubai, despite the UAE’s central role in supporting the brutal genocide in Sudan.

Seeking to advance its own interests in the country, Abu Dhabi has funneled arms and money to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, facilitating large-scale atrocities and massacres.
To pressure the UAE to end its sponsorship of this violence and its cooperation with war criminals, institutions linked with the UAE must start divesting, Sudanese researcher Mohamed Suliman argues.

“The world, which has witnessed several genocides in the Holocaust, Srebrenica and Rwanda, should act boldly this time,” Suliman writes. “We cannot keep standing on the sidelines, arms folded, and let the UAE fund another human tragedy in front of our eyes.”

The war that broke out in Sudan almost 16 months ago between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces has left a devastating impact, leaving some 10 million forcibly displaced and tens of thousands more dead. And while it denies any and all links, all reports indicate that the United Arab Emirates has been investing heavily in the violence, part of a strategic effort to expand its sway in the Horn of Africa.

Read more about the genocide in Sudan, its brutal humanitarian toll and the UAE’s central role in fanning the flames of violence: https://www.analystnews.org/posts/to-end-the-genocide-in-sudan-we-must-divest-from-the-uae

Photos: Reuters and LondonforSudan

17/07/2024

Rapper has been outspoken in support of Gaza, dropping the protest rap song “Hind’s Hall” and raising funds for the beleaguered .

But he’s still planning a concert soon in Dubai, despite the UAE’s central role in supporting the brutal genocide in Sudan.

Seeking to advance its own interests in the country, Abu Dhabi has funneled arms and money to the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, facilitating large-scale atrocities and massacres.

To pressure the UAE to end its sponsorship of this violence and its cooperation with war criminals, institutions linked with the UAE must start divesting, Sudanese researcher Mohamed Suliman argues.

“The world, which has witnessed several genocides in the Holocaust, Srebrenica and Rwanda, should act boldly this time,” Suliman writes. “We cannot keep standing on the sidelines, arms folded, and let the UAE fund another human tragedy in front of our eyes.”

The war that broke out in Sudan almost 16 months ago between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces has left a devastating impact, leaving some 10 million forcibly displaced and tens of thousands more dead.

And while it denies any and all links, all reports indicate that the United Arab Emirates has been investing heavily in the violence, part of a strategic effort to expand its sway in the Horn of Africa.

Read more about the genocide in Sudan, its brutal humanitarian toll and the UAE’s central role in fanning the flames of violence at the links in our bio.

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25/06/2024

Princeton economist Atif Mian says the way we’re living is not normal — and the global economy’s addiction to debt is to blame. In fact, what he calls the ‘debt supercycle’ is responsible for widening inequality and an increasingly dysfunctional political system. 

Ten years ago, Mian and his research partner, University of Chicago economist Amir Sufi, published “House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again.” The book argued that severe recessions — including the 2008 Great Recession — are caused by a huge buildup of consumer debt, followed by a drop in household spending that exacerbates job losses and economic slowdowns. 

Now, he argues that our “dependence on credit to boost demand imperils the world economy.” As both consumers and governments around the world continue excessive borrowing, income inequality widens. That leads to more borrowing, and the vicious cycle continues. 

Read our extensive interview with Mian at the link in our bio.

25/06/2024

“People think there is a crisis in the future. What they are not realizing is that they are living in a crisis.”

Princeton economist Atif Mian says the way we’re living is not normal — and the global economy’s addiction to debt is to blame. In fact, what he calls the ‘debt supercycle’ is responsible for widening inequality and an increasingly dysfunctional political system.

Ten years ago, Mian and his research partner, University of Chicago economist Amir Sufi, published “House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again.” The book argued that severe recessions — including the 2008 Great Recession — are caused by a huge buildup of consumer debt, followed by a drop in household spending that exacerbates job losses and economic slowdowns.

Now, he argues that our “dependence on credit to boost demand imperils the world economy.” As both consumers and governments around the world continue excessive borrowing, income inequality widens. That leads to more borrowing, and the vicious cycle continues.

Read our extensive interview below.

We’re living in dysfunctional times. Princeton economist Atif Mian says the ‘debt supercycle’ is at the root of it all — and it’s only going to get worse.

21/06/2024

With the U.K. general election looming, the Conservative Party manifesto includes a dangerous “free speech” policy which would allow teachers to hurt religious sentiments.

As usual, it’s actually targeted at the Muslim community.

24/05/2024

After the ICC announced applications for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Benjamin Netanyahu labeled ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan as "one of the great antisemites in modern times."

The allegation of antisemitism has been used countless times since Oct. 7 to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel, with U.N. officials, human rights groups, peaceful protestors and international institutions being smeared with the label.

Earlier this year, we spoke to Avi Shlaim, a leading British-Israeli historian about the weaponization of antisemitism.

"Antisemitism has been weaponized to whitewash Israeli apartheid, Israeli occupation and Israeli war crimes," he told us.

Most criticism of Israel is legitimate and evidence-based, he explains – nothing to do with hatred of Jews. Instead, Shlaim says, Israel has succeeded in creating a climate of fear to make people who are not remotely antisemitic, fearful of criticising Israel.

20/05/2024

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that he is officially requesting arrest warrants against:

-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant
-Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh.

03/05/2024

Israel suspects the International Criminal Court will soon indict Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, for its alleged war crimes in Gaza.

What do these possible impending warrants mean? Does the ICC have jurisdiction?

We break it down in our explainer ⬇️

Israel suspects the international court will soon indict Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, for its alleged crimes in Gaza. Will they have any real effect?

02/05/2024

Activists say the arms industry has ‘infiltrated’ campuses through multimillion dollar contracts. Now, they’re calling for an end to military links to higher education.

Activists say the arms industry has ‘infiltrated’ campuses. Now, they’re calling for an end to military links to higher education.

02/05/2024

Is higher education enabling war in Gaza and around the world?

Tent cities have sprouted up at university campuses from New York to Berlin to Vancouver to Sydney — calling for an end to university ties with armed groups and financial divestment from companies linked to Israel’s war in Gaza.

As broader movements to cut military ties from higher education gain momentum, the fact remains that across the globe, arms groups fund postsecondary research and pay universities to recruit students and promote jobs on campus. These institutions also invest in companies that have shares in the defense sector.

In the U.K., the known value of these relationships is in the range of almost 2 billion pounds (about $2.5 billion), while American universities are bringing in millions of dollars each year through defense contracts and grants directly linked to the U.S. Department of Defense.

“We’re saying peace isn’t possible while at the same time selling weapons to the people who are killing people,” says Jinsella Kennaway, who leads .

Instead of building ties between educational campuses and military industry groups, Kennaway says universities should promote thinking about ways to address the root causes for conflict, such as the competition for resources.

“Anyone whose heart is aching looking at the devastation of the conflicts around the world will agree that it is time that we use our educational capacity … to find solutions beyond military violence,” she adds.

Read the full story: https://www.analystnews.org/posts/a-massive-student-movement-is-demanding-that-universities-stop-fueling-the-global-war-machine

30/04/2024

While mainstream media fixates on college protests and rumors of an ICC arrest warrant, the horrors in Gaza continue unabated.

We spoke with Dr. Dhiaa Daoud, an American doctor who spent two weeks volunteering in the emergency room at the European Hospital in Rafah. What he saw there haunts him.

“These kids with these amputations, losing their arms and feet and legs — this is not how they imagined their lives. And they never imagined that nobody would ask about them or help them or stop this massacre,” he says.

Read our full harrowing interview with Dr. Daoud ⤵️

He spent two weeks in an emergency room at Rafah’s main hospital. What he saw should shock the world into action.

09/04/2024

Crippled by a veto system and the inability to hold its members to account, the U.N. is failing in its mission to preserve world peace, writes our editor-in-chief, Atif Rashid.

With global conflicts raging from Haiti to Ukraine, the U.N.’s bureaucracy, undemocratic veto system, and unwillingness to restrain its members have paralyzed the world body, rendering it impotent in the face of brazen violations of international law.

The unchecked power vested in a few nations within the Security Council has led to obstructed resolutions, hampered humanitarian efforts, and ultimately, heightened death and destruction. It undermines the United Nations’ core mission, leaving vulnerable populations at the mercy of geopolitical interests rather than justice and peace.

The United States has vetoed U.N. resolutions against Israel at least 53 times over the past 50 years, and the Security Council’s five permanent members have exercised their veto powers nearly 320 times. Most have been by Russia, the United States and China, in that order.

The veto system continues to perpetuate injustice, enabling a powerful few to dictate global affairs at the expense of the rest of the world – its abolition is essential.

Read more - link in bio.

09/04/2024

Crippled by a veto system and the inability to hold its members to account, the U.N. is failing in its mission to preserve world peace, writes our editor-in-chief, Atif Rashid.

But how can it restore its relevance?

Analysis: Crippled by a veto system and the inability to hold its members to account, the U.N. is failing in its mission to preserve world peace. Here’s how it can restore its relevance.

28/03/2024

The engineered famine starving millions of Palestinians in Gaza is cruel, illegal — and has a grim historical precedent, writes food systems expert Tammara Soma.

As one expert quoted in her piece put it, “Before Oct. 7, 65% of Gaza’s population was food insecure. Now the entire population is at risk of starvation. So Israel’s strategy here? They aim to ensure that those who do survive the bombs are condemned to a future without sustenance.”

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The engineered famine starving millions of Palestinians is cruel, illegal — and has a grim historical precedent.

22/03/2024

Is international law merely a political ploy in the hands of power?

We spoke with former U.N. Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk about Israeli impunity, the International Criminal Court, and the difficult path to accountability in Gaza.

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Law professor and U.N. expert Michael Lynk speaks about Israeli impunity, the role of the International Criminal Court, and the difficult path to accountability in Gaza.

18/03/2024

"What would you do if you were the prime minister of Israel when Oct. 7 happened?"

"I would resign... I botched security and propped up Hamas," journalist Mehdi Hasan tells Piers Morgan.

14/03/2024

The rise of flexible work arrangements has enabled more women to juggle their careers with motherhood, experts say, fostering stronger families.

Read more on how remote work can change families —and society—for the better. ⤵️

The rise of flexible work arrangements has enabled women to juggle their careers with motherhood, experts say, fostering stronger families.

08/03/2024

For Palestinian women, the difficulties of menstruation, breastfeeding, pregnancy and childbirth have reached new heights under Israel’s siege of Gaza.

On , activist Hala Hanina calls on feminists to end their silence.

Palestinian women have always suffered under occupation. Since Oct. 7, their reproductive health has been under siege.

04/03/2024

The author of the Alabama IVF decision is a problematic judge. But he’s a worse theologian, writes Boston University professor Joshua Pederson.

Read his op-ed below.

Separation of church and state aside, the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that deems embryos as people is based on a fundamentally flawed understanding of scripture.

02/03/2024

Educators have a responsibility to help guide ethical leadership. That’s why more than 4,000 of us are calling on Biden to demand a ceasefire, say Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, professors at Arizona State University.

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Educators have a responsibility to help guide ethical leadership. That’s why more than 4,000 of us are calling on Biden to demand a ceasefire.

02/03/2024

Educators have a responsibility to help guide ethical leadership. That’s why more than 4,000 of us are calling on Biden to demand a ceasefire, say Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines, professors at Arizona State University.

“It is not enough for educators simply to teach peace in the classroom. We must strive to apply these principles in our lives and inspire others to do the same,” they write in this viewpoint.

Saikia and Haines are among 4,000 academics and scholars around the country who have signed an open letter to President Biden pleading for a ceasefire.

Read their full op-ed at the link in our bio.

28/02/2024

Why is it that international law can be wielded in favor of what so many legal experts deem to be illegal?

By its very nature, international law can be interpreted flexibly and is slow to be enforced. We’re seeing the results in Gaza and Ukraine now, writes Sulaiman Manto.

Read his full analysis below.

By its very nature, international law can be interpreted flexibly and is slow to be enforced. We’re seeing the results in Gaza and Ukraine now.