Submitted by Peter Garcia-Webb on Tue, 2014-12-30 11:35 The major danger of the Jordan backed Abbas UN resolution is that it might be supported. If so, in one simple move Mahmoud Abbas will have proved…
An informal ‘Public Truth Commission’ set out to find exactly what happened to the Negev Bedouin between 1948 and 1960. While Bedouin witnesses told stories of massacres, rape and expulsions, former Israeli soldiers said they…
The call for BDS is growing louder across the country. Student governments from California to Massachusetts have voted to endorse BDS, the Middle East Studies Association has voted to officially sanction discussion on the topic,…
I wish I could draw. A few years back, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the United Nations General Assembly with a cartoonish drawing of a bomb meant to illustrate Iran’s march toward achieving…
Sweden has officially recognised the state of Palestine, the Swedish foreign minister said, less than a month after Stockholm announced its intention to make the controversial move. “Today the government takes the decision to recognise…
MPs have voted by 274 to 12 in favour of recognising Palestine as a state alongside Israel. The House of Commons backed the move “as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution”. The vote…
In majority of 274-12, Parliament decides to support the motion calling for the recognition of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. The British parliament voted 274 to 12 in a non-binding motion to recognize the state…
MPs are on the verge of backing a historic parliamentary vote that would call on the British government to unilaterally recognise the state of Palestine. Politicians on both sides of the deeply divisive issue believe…
The alternative is further violence, injustice and discrimination. When the UK parliament votes on Monday we must break this impasse. Last week the prime minister of Israel announced yet more illegal settlements in the West…
The UK parliament will be voting on a motion to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel on 13 October. The application proposed by parliamentary backbenchers was originally presented to the Backbench Business…
Palestinian president accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza conflict and declares US-brokered peace process dead. The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has called on the United Nations security council to support a resolution setting a clear…
Fatah and Hamas delegations will meet for mediation before indirect negotiations with Israel commence. Egypt will host talks between rival Palestinian factions within days, followed by indirect negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis on the ceasefire…
A new United Nations assessment published this week lays out the massive scope of the needs facing the nearly 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza following the “unprecedented” destruction wreaked by 51 days of Israeli bombing…
Yehuda Shaul writes of how he and his friends learned to glorify power, and lost their ability to see Palestinians as people whose lives are no less valuable. Now, he and hundreds of others are…
