The ship which Iran attacked near Oman a few days ago is operated by the Israeli company, Zodiac Maritime, in which the oligarch Ofer family has a major interest. It owns Zim Lines and associated shipping interests and until 2011, itself traded with Iran, despite international sanctions prohibiting such commerce. Among other products, Ofer ships […]
Israeli Weapons Fuel Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict and Grease Palms of Corrupt Elite
It’s common knowledge that Israel is one of the world’s largest arms exporters. As I reported in Jacobin Magazine, it exports to the most genocidal regimes on the planet, and fuels ethnic conflicts from South Sudan to the Phillipines. Less known is the role Israel is playing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In […]
Russian Oligarch Secretly Funds Jerusalem Settler Ethnic-Cleansing Project
In the 1990s, when Boris Yeltsin began privatizing vast swaths of Russia’s industrial output, he essentially permitted a group of thuggish entrepreneurs to purchase these state assets for a pittance. They in turn, turned their companies into behemoths with a guaranteed monopoly, thus allowing them to become vastly wealthy oligarchs in the process. They […]
World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem: Hijacking the Shoah, Whitewashing Nakba
This week, thirty world leaders are converging on Jerusalem to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I wrote about it in my new piece for Middle East Eye. All appearances to the contrary, this is not an official “Israeli” commemoration. Despite the fact that the country’s president is welcoming the dignitaries and […]
