Israeli settlements and a cycle of violence mean time is running out to resolve the issue The recent announcement by the Israeli government that it is expropriating another 1,000 acres of the West Bank has…
President Mahmoud Abbas will ask his French counterpart Francois Hollande for official recognition of Palestine in an upcoming meeting this week, the Palestinian foreign minister said Sunday. Riyad al-Maliki told Ma’an that Abbas is due…
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children returned to school in Gaza on Sunday, Azhar recited a poem eulogizing her father, killed by Israeli shelling in the enclave’s recent conflict. “Daddy, what can I tell…
Human-rights advocate gives `a voice to victims’ and demands accountability, award’s sponsors say. B’Tselem, the prominent Israeli human-rights advocate, was awarded the 2014 Stockholm Human Rights Award, the International Legal Assistance Consortium and two major…
Israel should embrace Palestinian unity for its own security. A further land grab will only inflame tensions Israel has a habit of justifying its actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, however illegal and indecent, in…
Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest publicly listed arms company, and one of the world’s leading exporters of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) – drones. Elbit’s leading product is the Hermes 450 drone, “a mature and combat…
FRINGE MEETING AT THE AUTUMN CONFERENCE SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER, 2014 AT 6.15PM CAMPANILE, PICASSO 2 Racism is a continuing problem in many countries. It is a feature of the Palestine/Israel conflict. Palestinians are being demonised…
Israel says it will expropriate 4 sq km (1.5 sq miles) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The decision to appropriate land south of Bethlehem is believed to be the largest seizure by…
As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the…
Demilitarizing Gaza is being touted as part of a solution to the fighting that has, over the past month, torn apart the small area of blighted territory. Disarmament of the Gaza Strip is too simplistic…
The truce between Israel and Hamas may turn out to be no more than a pause. Let us hope it will not, but at least that pause gives us the opportunity to reflect on the…
The children who survive Operation Protective Edge will emerge to find their previous lives almost unrecognizable, as the families, schools, hospitals and mosques that framed their world are systematically destroyed Israel’s ground invasion of the…
In Gaza City thousands of Palestinians have taken shelter outside of United Nations facilities out of fear of air-strikes targeting the civilian sanctuaries. They live in rented rooms, in the backs of stores, in half-erected…
Israel’s current actions – indeed its actions since 1948 – are based on three core drum-beat principles; it has a right to exist; it has the most moral Armed Forces in the world; and it…
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem march in solidarity with Gaza, in the largest such protest in years. At least two were killed. At least two protesters were killed and more than…