by Iqbal Jassat | Dec 13, 2018 | Local News, MRN articles, MRN Views, Palestine
Recent events in South Africa have had a profoundly positive impact on Palestine. It may not be music for this country’s pro-Israel lobby but certainly welcomed by the broad spectrum of solidarity movements active in pursuit of freedom and justice for the...
by Iqbal Jassat | Nov 26, 2018 | MRN articles, MRN Views, Uighur, World News
No matter how often officials of China deny or refute reports of state-sponsored targeting of Uighur Muslims, the evidence for it is overwhelming. The latest damning research emanates from Asia Society’s Center on US-China Relations. Anthropologist Darren Byler...
by Iqbal Jassat | Nov 19, 2018 | Local News, MRN articles, MRN Views, Rohingya, World News
South Africa’s shameful decision to “sit on the fence” during the United Nation’s recent vote on Myanmar, has come under attack, and rightly so. Since the Rohingya crisis caught the attention of the world during August 2017, not much has been...
by Iqbal Jassat | Nov 11, 2018 | MRN Views
President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to address South Africa’s Jewish Board of Deputies, in what has become a ritual for leaders of the country. Unsurprisingly, the Jewish Board has hailed the upcoming event in anticipation of obtaining presidential assurances which...
by Iqbal Jassat | Oct 29, 2018 | MRN Views
Finally the devastation in Yemen caused by Saudi Arabia’s unrelenting war, seems to have caught the attention of America’s mainstream media. This dramatic turnaround from being an uncritical endorser of the House of Saud, to having found a voice able to...
