– Daud Abdullah is Director of Middle East Monitor (MEMO) in London and a former Senior Researcher at the Palestinian Return Centre. He has lectured in history at universities in Nigeria and London. His books include Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign Policy and Islam, Race and Rebellion in the Americas, published in 2025.
By Daud Abdullah Daud Abdullah examines how growing global boycotts and solidarity with Palestine echo the movement that helped dismantle South African apartheid. They were both born in 1948 from the womb of European colonialism. Like conjoined twins, apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel thrived on Western patronage and structures of racism. Three decades after […]