Israel’s Knesset is set to vote on a bill which would identify Palestinian Christians with Israeli citizenship as non-Arabs, sparking outcry both within and outside of 1948 Palestine. The bill was proposed by Yariv Levin,…
Dear friends, The situation is totally unjust — Hebron is a city with nearly 200,000 Palestinian residents, who are banned from their main street, while 800 Israeli settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, are allowed full…
HEBRON, West Bank — It was not your usual Holy Land tour, but surely one of the most revealing I’ve ever had. A team from Friends of the Earth Middle East took me around to…
The BBC has finally admitted that it breached its own impartiality guidelines when it presented a pro-Israel commentator as if he was neutral. The finding published yesterday by the BBC Trust, the highest level of…
The decision by actress Scarlett Johansson to stop being an ambassador for Oxfam, the social justice charity, and continue as brand ambassador to SodaStream, an Israeli company that makes home-carbonated drink dispensers at a plant…
OXFORD, England — On Jan. 14, the Israeli defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, told the daily Yediot Aharonot, “Secretary of State John Kerry — who arrived here determined, who operates from an incomprehensible obsession and a…
John Kerry may be gradually persuading enough Israeli right-wingers that a Palestinian state is worth striving for. FEW believed that John Kerry, the American secretary of state, would manage to haul the Israelis and Palestinians…
Dear Members, The very brave Rector of St James’ Piccadilly, the Rev Lucy Winkett, is now under attack. For the 12 Days of Christmas her church has run a Palestinian Festival, Bethlehem Unwrapped. But the highlight…
We’ve just received the welcome news from our allies on the ground that the Prawer Plan to forcibly relocate over 40,000 Israeli Bedouin from their ancestral lands is no longer under consideration by the Israeli…
An analysis of how the EU’s settlement guidelines will affect Israel and the settlements after the two sides reached an agreement on their disputed terms, as they have been reported thus far. The European Union…
The UKTI has updated its “Doing business guide in Israel”. Until Friday 15 November 2013, the British government had been promoting investment in the Jordan valley and its illegal Israeli settlements, contradicting its policy position…
Kerry’s effort to re-launch the peace process was based on the illusion that Netanyahu is committed to a two-state solution; its failure means that it’s only a matter of time before the Palestinians fight back.…
When a journalist was invited to a meeting, asked a question, and the distinguished speakers invoked their right to remain silent. I never expected that Dr. Rajiv Shah, the administrator of United States Agency of…
Last week, my colleagues in the Israeli Peace Now movement issued two blockbuster reports. These weren’t the regular “more construction was announced” fare. These reports have huge implications, both negative and positive, for peace and…
As the Israelis and Palestinians are presently negotiating in an effort to end a nearly seven decades-old conflict, Prime Minister Netanyahu has made recognition of the Jewish right to a homeland in Israel “the most…