The 1987 Intifada and the Arab Uprising are remarkably similar: grassroots movements consisting of local networks with the single unifying interest to challenge systematic injustice. Indeed, the Palestians – and many of their Arab brothers in Egypt, Syria and beyond – may have failed to achieve a more just world, but their cause is far from…
First and foremost, the image of the #Syrianboy who survived a bombardment in Aleppo is emblematic for the human catastrophe of the civil war in Syria – akin Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old who drowned in the Mediterranean last year. But the image of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh has also revived the debate how audiences across the…
Jamestown Foundation: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 13 Issue: 19 In December 2014, a video testament emerged in which 19-year-old Sultan Berzel, from the Netherlands’ southern city of Maastricht, called on Muslims to make hijra (a religious migration) to the self-proclaimed Islamic State group. He delivered his message in a quiet voice and with a local Maastricht accent. The…
Door een akkoord te sluiten met Iran jagen we onbewust de soennieten verder in de handen van groeperingen als IS en Al Qaida. Toegegeven, de nucleaire deal met Iran is een historische overeenkomst zoals er de laatste decennia maar weinig zijn gesloten in het Midden-Oosten. Qua symbolische waarde zeker vergelijkbaar met het Camp David-akkoord uit…
ISIS’ rise was seen as the ideal moment for the U.S. to realize its failure of non-intervention and unfold a strategy for Syria.
A Dutch Jabhat al Nusra (JAN) fighter who goes by the nom de guerre “Muhajiri Shaam” or “Abu Mohammed al Hollandi” has recently gained lots of traction in Dutch media. Following the US-coalition air-strikes on al JAN-strongholds on Monday, in which three Dutch Nusra fighters died, he uploaded a video on his Facebook page in…
Breaking news this morning: preacher Abu Qatada has been cleared from terrorism charges in his home country Jordan. The timing cannot be more suspicious with Jordan’s involvement in the bombing of ISIS strongholds in Syria. Abu Qatada has recently come out with heavy criticism of the Islamic State. From his prison cell in Amman, he…
