Michael Holmes

An Interview With Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University’s Historian of the Middle East

by Michael Holmes | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured Articles

This interview took place on November 3, 2023. Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East at Columbia University in New York City and worked as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s in Madrid and Washington. He has written many books on the Middle East, including the Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, which offers a fact-filled history of the Israel-Palestine conflict from 1917 to 2017. The gripping book is a hard-hitting critique of Israel’s many wars against the Palestinian people and the ongoing colonization of Palestine. It nevertheless offers a...

Ukraine’s Pro-Peace Minority Feels Intimidated: An On the Ground Report

by Michael Holmes | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Kiev. Sirens wail. I jump up in bed and try to shake my friend Alex awake. “Wake up! Air alert. Let’s get to the shelter! Hurry up!" He turns away. "Let me be! This shit alarm is constant." I dress hastily. He sighs, wearily grabs his cell phone and checks a warning app. "Nothing serious! No bombs! At least not yet,” he says calmly, rolls over and goes back to sleep. Now I'm calming down a bit. I feel a bit ridiculous—an outsider who doesn't know anything about war. I'm staying for a few days with my Ukrainian friend Alex, who I've been friends with for a number of years, although we often...

Michael Holmes is a freelance journalist and founder of Global Apartheid, based in Potsdam, Germany.

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by Gary Vogler

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