Politics

Mainstream Western politics and media's approach to the war on Gaza raises three important puzzles. Exploring them suggests that Western and Middle Eastern governments are unwilling to address the root causes of the Palestine/Israel question.

An expert in international law explains the ICJ case and its implications for the future of the international order

The newly elected Argentinian president Milei showed selective solidarity to crimes against humanity in Israel and Gaza. His contradictory claims proves that he's the opposite of a libertarian.

In her project My Fascist Grandpa, the Italian artist and photographer Laura Fiorio focuses on Italy’s fascist and colonial history through the lens of shared family histories.

A relentless campaign of incitement, political persecution, and a severe crackdown on freedom of speech is targeting Palestinians citizens of Israel. 

In the past few months, several feminists collectives have reunited in transnational assemblies, formed by a plurality of voices from different countries, to reflect on the ongoing massacre in Palestine in relation with Global South's common colonial injuries and struggles, and to demand a permanent ceasefire.

Sweida, with its various towns and villages, has been witnessing widespread protests, demonstrations, strikes, and sharp statements opposing the ruling regime for over four months. This article, first published on Syria Untold in October, investigates these protests’ origin, and what has been happening in this province since 2011.

Our selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing attack on Gaza and the West Bank

Our selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing attack on Gaza and the West Bank

Survivors of Genocide in Darfur 20 years later. Their struggle and resistance in Jordan

Untold Stories is documenting and collecting the various solidarity statements and petitions issued on Palestine. This is an on-going post that will be updated regularly. Please share your statements with us by tagging @untoldmag on twitter, or untoldstories.media on instagram, or by contacting us via email on our website. 

Selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing attack on Gaza and the West Bank. 

Selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing attack on Gaza and the West Bank. 

On the morning of April 15th, 2023, when Sudanese people awoke to the sounds of gunfire, they certainly did not imagine that their lives would be changed forever. Six months later, it is still difficult to fathom that the country that recently witnessed an incredible revolution that inspired the entire world is now a battlefield embroiled in a violent power...

Selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing attack on Gaza and the West Bank. 

What is happening to us? What is happening in this world? How can people witness all this in a single lifetime? 

Untold Mag selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza and the West Bank.

Users, activists and journalists have denounced the censorship, particularly by Facebook and Instagram, of posts reporting on what is happening in Gaza and of messages of solidarity with its inhabitants

If you are not outraged, look in the mirror and ask yourself why that is. Why is it that you choose to justify or even accept violence against these people but not against others?

Since 7 August 2023, the Italian philosopher, theorist and activist Franco Berardo “Bifo” has been keeping track of “Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian farmers and the violence of Tsahal's soldiers against young people imprisoned in the occupied territories or in the Gaza concentration camp.

I’ve been a journalist for more than 25 years, and I have never witnessed a time when editors were so careless when it comes to running stories based on unverified accounts. 

Untold Mag selection of some of the best journalistic pieces on Palestine during the ongoing Israeli attack on Gaza and the West Bank.

In the hours following the attack of Palestinian fighters in the south of Israel, Western observers, bewildered, speculated about why Hamas and the young Palestinians of Gaza, born and bred under siege and bombs, have launched an attack of this magnitude, and right now. Others expressed their surprise at the surprise. 

Thousands of people have landed  in the past few weeks in Lampedusa, closer to Tunisian coasts than Italian ones. The so-called emergency is created by the Italian government for electoral purposes and more repression.

How migrants and asylum seekers, victims of Europe’s violations of human rights, are used as test subjects for tech experimentation

After the killing of 17 years old French Algerian Nahel by police, riots erupted again in France. Violence and social exclusion are rooted in the history of the old colonial power's banlieues, and police repression of urban revolts shows a neo-colonial approach, write sociologist Gülçin Erdi. 

A personal account of what it feels to live in contemporary Ecuador, where violence is part of everyday life, a "death world" where governments leave people to die.

From the war of independence to the 2019 popular movement, the intersectional feminist Amal Hadjadj reflects on the history of feminism in her country, Algeria. New and older generations’ different orientations and priorities, in search for a common ground.

Farah Youssef talks to herself, and to the readers, tracing her feminist path through revolution, exile, activism.

An interview with Jiyan Group about the revolutionary uprising in Iran.