Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ignited violence in Amsterdam, but the far-right is victimising them to repress Palestine solidarity, writes Alex de Jong.
Amsterdam's liberal mayor Femke Halsema declared which followed the Maccabi Tel Aviv and AFC Ajax match at the end of last week were the result of ‘a toxic cocktail of antisemitism, hooliganism and anger over the war in Palestine and Israel'. Whilst the description is not wholly false, it is certainly misleading. This was made clear by (…)

Le 21 octobre 2024, le président indonésien Prabowo Subianto, accompagné de son vice-président Gibran Rakabuming Raka, a procédé à l'investiture des ministres et vice-ministres de son nouveau gouvernement, baptisé « Cabinet Rouge et Blanc » pour la période 2024-2029. Parmi les nominations qui ont fait sensation : cinq anciens cadres du Parti démocratique populaire (PRD), une formation de gauche qui s'était opposée au régime autoritaire de Suharto dans les années 1990. Cette décision a (…)

Within the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump's recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have been established since the end of the Second World War. The most tragic manifestation of this crisis (…)