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LIVE UPDATES: Netanyahu orders ‘wide-scale’ military offensive in occupied West Bank villages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that they had ordered the army to launch a “wide-scale miltary operation” in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank

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        Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 22 July

        MEMO spoke to Motasem A Dalloul, a survivor of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in the first of a new series of regular updates from the ground. Dalloul describes the daily struggle to survive: hunger, cold, the collapse of healthcare, and ongoing Israeli violations despite the so-called ceasefire. WATCH:  Gaza: On The Ground with Motasem A Dalloul | Week 08 July

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        MEMO in Conversation with Raouf Farrah

        In this conversation with Raouf Farrah, lead Africa analyst at SecDev and co-editor of Rising for Palestine, we discuss his new book and its call for renewed Africa-Palestine solidarity. We also discuss the Sumud convoy, a North African solidarity initiative organised to challenge Israel’s siege on Gaza. Farrah reflects on the political obstacles the convoy faced and what they reveal about the regional response to Palestine. Raouf Farrah is the Lead Africa Analyst at the SecDev Group, a risk analytics firm working at the intersection of technology and human behaviour. In 2025, he was instrumental in organising  The Sumud Convoy, an attempt to break Israel’s siege on Gaza This year, Farrah co-edited a book, Rising for Palestine. MORE >>> MEMO in […]

    • Reviews

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        Violent Interests: Capitalism and Social Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean

        A French-Lebanese couple set out for Beirut where the man wanted to introduce the woman he wanted to marry to his family. However, as their passenger ship docked in Beirut port, the man’s father refused to allow the woman to disembark from the ship. A powerful and wealthy Greek Orthodox businessman, Musa Sursuq was opposed to his son, Jirjis Musa Sursuq, from marrying a French singer. As Kristen Alff describes, ‘He forbade his son from marrying the singer, telling Jirjis that he had already arranged for him to marry his first cousin Emilie.’ The world Musa grew up in, the newly acquired power and wealth acquired by his parents’ generation meant it was imperative for sons and daughters to marry […]

    • Palestine This Week

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        The Anti-Klan Law Comes for Trump’s Israel Lobby | Palestine This Week

        In this episode, we examine Trump’s drastically reduced Gaza recovery plan, growing criticism within Hamas over the consequences of 7 October and Israel’s covert efforts to downplay the scale of death, starvation and destruction in Gaza. We also discuss the failure of a major pro-Israel influence campaign in the US, rising congressional resistance to military aid, Mahmoud Abbas’s proposed Palestinian elections, legal challenges to US sanctions on the International Criminal Court and Mahmoud Khalil’s case against Trump administration officials and pro-Israel groups. The episode also explores Palestinian claims to ownership of land designated for a new US embassy in Jerusalem, reports that Trump urged Israel to withdraw from Syria and Lebanon and FIFA corruption.   WATCH: ‘Israel Loses Europe and America, […]

Islam Race and Rebellion in the Americas: Transatlantic Echoes of the West African Jihads

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