Omar Hassan is in Syria to report on the situation after the fall of Bahar Al-Assad’s dictatorship. These are his first impressions after entering the country from Lebanon.
The presence of far-right and ultra-Zionist figures in the Trump administration could lead to dramatic new developments for Palestinians and allow Israel even more scope for aggression.
The battlelines on campuses have been drawn. On one side is the enormous institutional support for the military-industrial complex and the highly militarised state of Israel. On the other side is a movement of students and staff desperate to show solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Iran’s rhetorical support for Palestinian liberation is one of the ways that its brutal dictatorship tries to win popular legitimacy at home and abroad. But its thin pretence of being an axis of resistance is window dressing for a counter-revolutionary domestic and international agenda.
