Author: Gilbert Achcar
Gilbert Achcar grew up in Lebanon and has lived and taught in Paris, Berlin, and London. He is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London. His many books include The Clash of Barbarisms (2002, 2006); Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky (2007); The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (2010); Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism (2013); The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising (2013); Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (2016); The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine (2023); and Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective (2025).
Gilbert Achcar argues that the Gaza genocide is a watershed in world history, representing the demise of the liberal illusion of a rules-based international order.
While the situation in Sudan does not get even a tenth of the global media attention as the ongoing Zionist genocidal war in Gaza, the scale of the human catastrophe there is equally horrific.
In an interview, Gilbert Achcar analyzes geopolitical transformations across the Middle East over the past year, and prospects for emergence of a progressive movement.
The party fell into the trap set for it by Israel, through its insistence on continuing to exchange fire with it “until a ceasefire in Gaza”, while it became clear that the weight of the battle was shifting from the wracked Strip to Lebanon.
While this mutation is a tribute to the importance of the protest movement against the war in the United States, we cannot ignore its opportunistic and hypocritical nature.
There is little doubt that Israel will respond to Iran’s launch of three hundred and twenty drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles on its territory with a major attack on Iran, and this for several reasons.
Achcar clarifies and expands his argument on the position the left should take on peace in Ukraine
A response to Jean Vogel’s critique of Achcar’s “For a democratic antiwar position on the invasion of Ukraine.”
Some basic principles for avoiding the twin dangers of favoring the aggressor and extreme nationalism.
