Jeremy Salt
Jeremy Salt taught modern Middle East history at the University of Melbourne, Bogazici (Bosporus) university in Istanbul and Bilkent University in Ankara. he is the author of ‘The Unmaking of the Middle East. A history of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press, 2008) and ‘The Last Ottoman Wars. The Human Cost 1877-1923’ (University of Utah Press, 2019). He is now an independent researcher.
Recent articles by Jeremy Salt
16 March 2025
Slaughterhouse Syria
The terrorists set loose on Syria more than a decade ago were slaughtering Alawis, and now they are systematically slaughtering them again – in their thousands.
21 February 2025
Gaza: The deafening sound of silence in Western political and media circles
Western governments and media remain silent on Israel’s genocide in Gaza while cracking down on those who speak out.
5 December 2024
The continuing ‘struggle for Syria’
The dramatic ‘rebel’ advance into Aleppo dominates the headlines. In history rather than headlines, however, the importance of current events shrinks into relativity, as the ‘West’ and its regional allies have been tearing apart, or trying to tear apart, Syria for more than a century. This is what the journalist and historian Patrick Seale called “the struggle for Syria” back in the early 1960s.
14 September 2024
A wave of censorship – Israel is the last collapsing rampart of ‘Western civilisation’
Israel was created as a rampart of Western civilisation in the barbarous east, but now the rampart is at risk of being overwhelmed.
28 August 2024
Evil fruit of seeds sown long ago – what makes Gaza genocide different?
These massacres bring us closer to the central questions that the inquiring mind might ask about the Gaza genocide.
5 June 2024
Hypocrisy and deceit Down Under: Australia is a Zionist stronghold
Opportunism, hypocrisy, manipulation, and deceit come quickly to mind when delving into the behaviour of politicians. Against this background, two Australian former prime ministers who have thrust themselves into the headlines over the genocide in Gaza, Julia Gillard and Scott Morrison, come to mind.
12 February 2024
Point of no return: the techno-barbaric state of Israel
With no peaceful options left in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the pendulum swings back to the war already being fought by the axis of resistance and likely to widen into a regional war at any moment.
31 May 2023
After Erdogans greatest triumph, the 'West' watches, and calculates
In Turkiye, deep polarisation and the long struggle between the Atlanticists and the Eurasianists over Turkiyes soul seems to be ending in victory for the latter. The EU has little appeal for Turks now. It lives in vassalage to the US, which itself seems to be thrashing around in the last days of empire. The west watches and calculates. It would have greatly preferred Kilicdaroglu. He would have been more malleable whereas Erdogan is hardly malleable at all. He gravitates between the west and Russia or China, benefitting always from Turkiyes geostrategic position. Internally, no loosening of his grip on...
