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Turkey’s dual message on the reversion of the Hagia Sophia to a mosque
Following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s reversal last week of a 1934 law converting the Hagia Sophia Mosque into a museum, his personal Twitter account and that of his office emphasized different aspects of...
‘Hebron is the Wuhan of Palestine’
The coronavirus situation in the Palestinian Authority is far worse than is being reported by the Palestinian media, according to Al-Ayyam columnist Abd al-Nasser al-Najjar.
In a July 11 column, Al-Najjar called the P.A. negligent for its...
Former Lebanese minister: Hezbollah needs to be dismantled
Lebanese politician Dr. Ahmed Fatfat, former minister of youth and sports, said in a July 4 interview on MTV (Lebanon) that all the militias in his country—first and foremost Hezbollah—should be dismantled in accordance with the...
Farrakhan: ‘Jews poisoned me to test whether I’m a man of God’
On July 4, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan delivered a three-hour speech that was streamed live on the Nation of Islam’s YouTube channel. In the speech, Farrakhan said that Jews had poisoned him...
Top Palestinian official: Third intifada could ‘absolutely’ be on the way
The Palestinians have a right to confront Israel, and a third intifada may be on the way, said senior Palestinian official Nabil Shaath on Friday.
Shaath, an adviser to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, said...
Former Malaysian premier: Muslims should target Israelis, not Europeans or Americans
Israel was created by world powers to solve the “Jewish problem,” and Muslims should not carry out terrorist attacks against European countries and the United States, but rather against the Israelis directly, Malaysia’s former...
Roger Waters: Zionism an ‘ugly stain’ that must be removed
According to British musician Roger Waters, U.S. businessman Sheldon Adelson is a “right-wing fascist, racist bigot” who controls U.S. President Donald Trump and believes only Jews are fully human.
Waters, co-founder of the band Pink...
‘Floyd killing was the straw that broke the camel’s back’
According to American Shi’ite Islamic scholar Usama Abdul Ghani, the killing of 46-year-old George Floyd was “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” and the time has come from the oppressed to throw off...
Khamenei on Floyd killing: ‘US been doing same thing to world for years’
The ongoing protests in the United States over the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis are an “eruption of truths that have always been hidden,” according to Iran’s...
Iranian TV airs anti-Israel video titled ‘COVID 1948’
Iran’s Channel 2 TV aired a video last month titled “COVID-1948,” comparing Israel to the coronavirus.
In the video, which aired on May 22, the narrator says that the world has been shocked that coronavirus has prevented...