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Striking for Palestine: The Future of Resistance in Labor Struggles in America Aminah Sheikh (Revised, and initially published in Spring Magazine) In 1973, the United Auto Workers (UAW) purchased over $300,000 in Israeli bonds, enabling the ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people. But in response,
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Sham Murad I first read Paulo Freire’s ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ long before I ever consciously entered the Islamic intellectual tradition, at a time when I was still trying to make sense of the world as an Iraqi asylum seeker growing up in the UK, navigating classrooms, languages, and the quiet d
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Salma Amrou The United Nations has long been an instrument of Western hegemony: when it called for the partition of Palestinian land in 1947 through the UN General Assembly’s Resolution 181, when the United States used its disproportionate UN veto power multiple times throughout the past two years o
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Shambhavi Siddhi In Kashmir’s protracted conflict with Indian occupation, Asiya Andrabi emerges as a figure both feared and respected, a devout Muslim woman who chose to make faith the foundation of her resistance. Born in Srinagar in the early 1960s, she possesses a BSc degree in Biochemistry and a
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Fadiah Nadwa Fikri In July this year, members of Parliament in the United Kingdom voted overwhelmingly to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. To enable this proscription, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tabled a draft order to amend the Terrorism Act 2000 in the House of Commons, wh
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Rasul Miller Muslims across the U.S. are mourning the loss of an immense spiritual, ethical, and political luminary – Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rasheed (1951-2025). Imam Talib served as the Imam of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (MIB) in the village of Harlem, New York for over 35 years – a positi
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Cover Photo from Yuki Iwamura / AP Azeem Khan Since the heyday of European colonialism, Muslim reformists have argued for integration into the modern world and acceptance of the hegemonic order. In a similar vein, Muslims in the West are told to celebrate their successes and milestones: the first Mu
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Marwa Yousuf K. In the shadow of genocide, while Gaza burns and its skies bear witness to one of the most one-sided assaults in modern history, a Muslim man ran for mayor in the heart of empire and won. People celebrated, calling it a win for progress, diversity, and even justice, as if a scheduled
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Julia Kassem Trump’s November 6 summit with Central Asian leaders included several deals. The US President announced a $35 billion investment by Uzbekistan into ‘key American industries’ – though this wasn’t confirmed by either government, but did include investments in “geological surveying for cri
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Shabbir Rizvi Al Aqsa Flood exposed the mechanics of a system that had sustained Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine for seventy-five years while extracting surplus from the entire Global South. Imperialism, led by and centered within the United States, enabled by European junior partners, and
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In this exclusive interview, the Vox Ummah team discussed ongoing labor developments with the Iranian Federation of Gas Refinery Workers’ Associations (Bushehr Province) President Alireza Mirghaffari. The interview focuses on the gas workers’ strike, the workers’ orientation to imperialism, their su
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Sara Ather Scores of homes and properties belonging to Indian Muslims were demolished recently in the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, India. The controversy that led to these demolitions began in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where Muslim residents displayed a banner reading “I Love Muhammad” duri