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Freelance journalist and political commentator with a B.A. in Asian and African Studies.
Portugal's failure to confront its colonial and fascist past has helped fuel the meteoric rise of far-right Chega.
Germany’s morally bankrupt political and media class, with their scandalous lack of historical self-awareness, continue to manufacture consent for a genocidal war that has German entanglement written all over it.
What makes expressions of Canadian patriotism problematic is that they blur the thin line between “harmless” patriotism and nationalism.
Timo Al-Farooq explores Germany’s unshakable support for "Israel" amid its war on Gaza, revealing how this stance echoes past militarism and a failure to reckon with history. The word Beratungsresistenz, resistance to advice, captures Berlin’s dangerous obstinacy.
Timo Al-Farooq comments on how German universities, under Zionist and state pressure, are silencing Palestinian voices and dismantling academic freedom under the guise of security and anti-Semitism.
How alarming the situation is can be gauged by the fact that no US government has invited so many comparisons with the policies and behaviours of Nazi Germany in its formative years as Trump 2.0.
Timo al-Farooq warns that Trump’s second term is mirroring Nazi Germany’s Gleichschaltung, as US institutions fall in line under an authoritarian, pro-Zionist regime targeting migrants, dissenters, and Palestine advocates.
Timo Al-Farooq exposes how Germany and the US are weaponizing immigration and international law to suppress Palestine solidarity, revealing the West's deepening hypocrisy and erosion of legal norms.
The bitter irony of violence against women being perpetrated by an agency tasked with upholding public safety and headed by a woman on a global day dedicated to celebrating women’s rights should not be lost.
2025 is the AU’s official Year of Reparations, and Africans are pushing forward unperturbed by Western inaction and far-right populism’s growing influence on political discourse...