“To be, or not to be, that is the question.” The famous line from Hamlet appears to have returned to haunt Islamabad after US President Donald Trump’s high-level conference call with Pakistan and several Arab nations over the weekend. According to Axios, Trump pushed for more Muslim-majority countries to join the Abraham Accords after the … Read more
Q Manivannan, an Indian-origin Scottish Green MSP elected to the Scottish Parliament last week, has drawn criticism after endorsing calls for reparations to Palestinians funded by Scottish taxpayers.Manivannan, who represents the Edinburgh & Lothians East regional list, supported a manifesto issued by the group Art Workers for Palestine Scotland ahead of the Holyrood election.The document … Read more
Palestinians in the West Bank and central Gaza voted on Saturday in municipal elections, the first since the Gaza war erupted, marked by low turnout and a narrow slate of contenders.Nearly 1.5 million people were registered to vote in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as 70,000 people in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah area, according to … Read more
Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved further measures to tighten Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to buy land, a move Palestinians called a “de-facto annexation”. The West Bank is among the territories that Palestinians seek for a future independent state. Much of it is under Israeli military control, … Read more
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has again designated Stanford University a “hostile campus” in its 2025 Hostile Campus Ratings Report, marking the second consecutive year the university has received the label.The report, released on Feb. 11 and shared with The Stanford Daily under embargo, evaluated 51 universities on administrative policies, leadership decisions, disciplinary actions and … Read more