Contested calls and rival flags showed how Palestine now shapes debates over power and fairness in sport.


Professor in the Media Studies program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.
Contested calls and rival flags showed how Palestine now shapes debates over power and fairness in sport.

Teams shaped by migration and diaspora are challenging exclusionary ideas of who belongs.

Ben-Gvir’s video of flotilla activists reveals a state so accustomed to impunity that it documents its own cruelty.

Conservative dissent over the war is fracturing the GOP and testing the durability of US support for Israel.

The interview brought the ‘Israel first vs America first’ debate to heart of the American right.

Fifteen years on, repression is deeper, dissent is criminalised, but democracy is still the public demand.
![Riot police force protestors back across the Kasr Al Nile Bridge as they attempt to get into Tahrir Square on January 28, 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Thousands of police are on the streets of the capital and hundreds of arrests have been made in an attempt to quell anti-government demonstrations [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/108473126.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The vote is carefully managed so that only one outcome is possible: a longer lease on power for el-Sisi.

President Donald Trump’s administration is bringing to the fore weaknesses that have long plagued US democracy.

By attacking the UN and the rules-based order, these two rogue states are merely hastening their own decline.

The Biden administration is trying to hide its complicity in genocide and help Harris win the election.
