The US must choose who to support: the Arab people or Al-Qaeda, says Shahid Alam
On 24 December 2004, I wrote an essay, "America and Islam: Seeking Parallels", for which I received much heat from Zionist and right-wing bloggers in the United (...)
While lamenting the killing of a provincial governor, the Western media fails to speak of the abyss into which Pakistan's pseudo-colonial elites have dragged the country, writes M Shahid Alam*
Pakistan's English print media -- faux liberal and (...)
In an excerpt from his latest book, Shahid Alam* sees turbulence ahead for the United States as Zionist apartheid continues to destabilse the Middle East region
My God! Is this the end? Is this the goal for which our fathers have striven and for (...)
Despite its initial military and political successes, it appears unlikely that Israel can endure for long as a colonial project, predicts Shahid Alam*
In order to firmly secure its existence a settler state has to overcome three challenges. It has (...)
Zionists are eager beavers, but all the chewing in the world won't help if the forest rots, notes Shahid Alam*
Certainly Zionists have worked hard and cleverly for their successes, but their cause has been greatly advanced at each stage by the logic (...)
M Shahid Alam* holds his breath as the US pursues its latest bright idea in Afghanistan
More than eight years after dismantling the Taliban, the United States is still mired in Afghanistan. Indeed, last October it launched a much-hyped surge to (...)
Just as the US sent the USSR into oblivion, Al-Qaeda has accelerated the economic decline of the US to the benefit of its nearest global rival, China, writes M Shahid Alam*
During the Cold War, the US and USSR were archrivals, each the antipodes of (...)
News dictated by colonial expediency is neither honest nor fit to print, writes M Shahid Alam*
An Arab-American of Lebanese roots and fluent in Arabic, Anthony Shadid, was one of a handful of un- embedded Western journalists reporting from Iraq (...)
Assertions without substance, prejudice without apology, violence without regret; these are the foundations of the Zionist dream of Israel, writes Shahid Alam*
On 12 January, The New York Times carried an article by David Brooks on Jews and Israel. (...)
"The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of the ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its rule. " M Shahid Alam* discovers more than a grain of truth in the words of Marx in today's Pakistan
A few days back, I (...)
For all our sweeping ideas about Western greatness, so many familiar parts of our days find their origin in Oriental innovation, writes M Shahid Alam*
At the outset of the classes I teach I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. (...)
An exclusive Jewish state in Palestine: Israel's raison d'être is also its tragedy, writes Shahid Alam*
The ultimate goal... is, in time, to take over the Land of Israel and to restore to the Jews the political independence they have been deprived (...)
Exponents of a pure form of settler-colonialism, the Zionists in 1948 smashed Palestinian society and dramatically altered an important part of the Islamic heartlands in what was an affront to the whole Islamic world, writes Shahid Alam*
"The (...)
The normal rules governing state conduct do not apply to Israel, it appears, writes Shahid Alam*
Critics of Zionism and Israel -- including a few Israelis -- have charted an inverse exceptionality, which describes an Israel that is aberrant, (...)
While some on the left deny the power of the Jewish lobby, preferring to focus on US strategic interests, a review of Middle East history reveals that US strategic interests are not being served by supporting Israel, writes Shahid Alam*
In the slow (...)
Shahid Alam* examines the implications of Benazir Bhutto's assassination
On 27 December, a little more than two months after her return to Pakistan from years of exile, Benazir Bhutto was killed while leaving the grounds of Liaquat Bagh after (...)
A war front that stretches from Lebanon to Pakistan and beyond is near to completion. Its protagonists -- the US and Israel -- would regret it, writes Shahid Alam*
In January 2002, when President George Bush named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the (...)
Pakistan is a paragon of the complexities facing post-colonial states in an imperialist age, writes Shahid Alam*
In Pakistan today we encounter a paradox crying for an explanation. It is a paradox, moreover, the exploration of which can bring some (...)
M Shahid Alam* examines the roots of Jewish suprematism
No idea has played a more seminal role in the recent history of Jewish and Christian Zionism than the Jewish doctrine of divine election or chosenness. Since this doctrine is the cornerstone of (...)
It remains to be seen if Washington's armchair strategists are men enough or reckless enough to take on Iran, writes M Shahid Alam*
The United States and Israel have been itching to go to Tehran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. That revolution (...)
It is the US that is creating terrorists faster than Muslim governments can handle, yet Thomas Friedman sees fit to threaten the Islamic world not Washington, writes Shahid Alam*
It appears that Thomas Friedman has a Muslim problem. He has a great (...)
1775 and 2001: M Shahid Alam* traces links across the years
History is made by people who seize the moments that circumstances offer and bend them to their purposes. When conditions are adverse, they nurse their purposes, their dreams of freedom, (...)
The war on terror might be bogus, but modern great powers are adept at creating the conditions under which the patently false becomes horribly real, writes M Shahid Alam*
They hate us because we don't know why they hate us. -- Bill Maher
Instantly, (...)
Israel has managed to get away with yet another crime by refusing to demolish its "security barrier" in the face of international pressure,writes M Shahid Alam*
Before I built a wall I'd like to know
What I was walling in or walling out.
-- Robert (...)
Unprecedented, unexpected, but also uncanny; there is something amiss in Washington's contrition, writes M Shahid Alam*
"There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and (...)