Vistasp Hodiwala

The collusion of the U.S. intellectual establishment on the Palestine issue is hardly a new phenomenon, with roots stretching back decades. This is a story I stumbled upon from 1984 and it had me shaking my head in disgust all through. It was a huge scandal in its time for a…

France just woke up to realise they were on the wrong side of history. But the heart-rending cries of the people of Gaza have still not been enough to disturb the guiltless slumber of the sociopaths and psychopaths that Trump, Carney, Scholz and Starmer clearly are. The way in…

Take your time, world. Take all the time you need. Be as slow as you can in recognising Israel's war crimes. The last Gazan is still a few months away from being dead. You can then pat yourself on the back for saying the right thing. @realDonaldTrump @Keir_Starmer…

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄. We have run out of words. But they haven't run out of ammunition. We have run out of outrage. But they're still going strong with their cruelty. And finally, we have run out of time. But they pretend as if…

This horror movie has been playing out for over 21 months now. It's only end, we can now safely predict, will be the extermination and / or exodus of all Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank. The only word that may fit, and yet it falls pitifully short, is, unconscionable.…

The ugly reality of the entitled Indian traveller must be faced by everyone out there, simply because there are way too many of us who have come to believe that we have some mythical right to impose our so-called "Indianness" upon an unsuspecting world. To dismiss this trend…

𝐓𝐇𝐄 "𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐁" 𝐈𝐍 𝐍𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐒. Israel has made the numbers wholly irrelevant. What does it matter that 58,573 people have been murdered in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023? Or that 875 Palestinians have been killed and 5,250 more have been wounded at or near aid…

In this engaging and thought-provoking interview with @KaranThapar_TTP for @thewire_in, @DalrympleWill once again reasserts the tragic history of Palestinians, by tracing the gruesome sequence of events over nearly a century and a half that eventually got us here. Following up…

The sanctions imposed upon the UN Special Rapporteur 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 (@FranceskAlbs) by the most powerful nation in the world is an unprecedented, unheard of move that does not augur well for the future of human rights institutions everywhere. In practical…

At long last the @guardian seems to have read the writing on the Zionist wall and has started 'allowing' pieces that make no bones about the collapse of the so-called 'rules-based international order's or the Israeli taste for wholesome butchery. This tide clearly has no option…

Listening to @DalrympleWill on any aspect of history and human civilisation has always been a treat. What he and @tweeter_anita have accomplished with the much-admired @EmpirePodUK on Spotify is one for the ages. In an age when history as a subject is seen as something sharp and…

Thank you for speaking about it. I am sure there are hundreds if not thousands of people with exactly our complaint! Seriously, how on earth have they not thought about something as basic as this? And then we have a bot saying please email your complaint to so and so. The…

𝐀 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄. An astrophysicist who is also an accomplished rock musician or a mathematician who excelled at fantasy novels: much as you admire them, how can you not feel a generous pang of envy for these remarkable specimens of humanity,…

But Iran is the problem, right Mr. President? How much hypocrisy is too much Sir? You made the world and your supporters believe you stood for something else, entirely. That no American should die fighting in foreign lands in wars that don't concern America. And that 5 letter…