The big policy change is that the motion calls for the British government to immediately recognise the state of Palestine, with no conditions, but with the expectation that free and fair elections will be held…
Jonathan Coulter, Bromley, UK, February 2016 Introduction I visited the South Hebron Hills in the first week of February, 2016. The acute conflict in this area developed after 1967, and more specifically after…
The comments of the far-right candidate for the Republican Party Presidential nomination, Donald Trump, claiming he would ban all Muslims from entering the United States has been met with widespread condemnation, even from surprising sources…
Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador to the US, is a man in denial. This is typical of so many of those who devote themselves to spreading Israel’s propaganda. He made a speech yesterday (17th October)…
The British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Conservative MP, Tobias Ellwood, has told parliament that the Israeli military have attacked the Gaza Strip on “at least 696 occasions”…
Much of the world was shocked by the reports of the arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma in July, which saw 18-month old Ali Dawabsheh burn to death, his mother Reham and…
The British public may be forgiven for assuming that all of the approx. 4 million refugees fleeing violence in Syria were Syrian, however there is also a sizeable Palestinian element to the refugee crisis. We,…
Sunday’s European Championship qualifier between Wales and Israel saw protests prior to the match from people who were there to protest against Israel’s involvement in the game, mainly due to Israeli government policy towards Palestine.…
Riyad Al-Maliki, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, warned on Thursday (3rd August) that Israel’s plans to subject the Al-Aqsa mosque to temporal and spatial divisions will spark a religious war in the region. Al-Aqsa mosque is…
The UN Conference On Trade And Development released a report yesterday (Tuesday 1st September) stating that Gaza could become “uninhabitable” by 2020 at the current rate. The report points to eight years of economic blockade,…
Miri Regev, Israel’s minister for Culture and Sports, took to social media today (30th August) to condemn the women and children who tried to prevent an IDF soldier from arresting a 12-year-old boy who had…
The director of Conservative Friends Of Israel, Stuart Polak, has been elevated to the House Of Lords by Prime Minister David Cameron this week. Mr Polak is, as reported by The Sunday Times, also a…
Footage has emerged online appearing to show a group of Palestinian women and children fighting with an IDF soldier. Gill Cohen of Haaretz reports that the events took place in the West Bank village of…
Hannah Weisfeld, Executive Director of Jewish organisation Yachad, and Sir Vincent Fean, former UK Consul General in Jerusalem and Ramallah, will discuss the prospects for Peace and how international pressure might help to bring that…
Volunteers for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) operations in Gaza have testified to witnessing the summary execution of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers during Operation Protective Edge. Esteemed journalist Max Blumenthal was given…