Zion or Zohran: Empires have picked their side, have we? It is not about a singular politician — though New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani has come to symbolize its ethos. Gaza: The Graveyard of IllusionsNo place on Earth lays bare the moral fraudulence of our global order more brutally than Gaza. It is a redefinition of global politics itself. [The writer, Prof. Junaid S. Ahmad teaches Law, Religion, and Global Politics and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decolonization (CSID), Islamabad, Pakistan.