A new bipartisan bill engineered by AIPAC was introduced in Congress yesterday that ties the rejection of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel to future U.S. trade agreements with the European Union. H.R.825,…
Mick Bowman during his arrest A human rights campaigner from Tyneside claims he was beaten and stood on after being arrested during a protest in Palestine. Mick Bowman, 57, from Throckley, also says he was…
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced the eight joint British-Israeli medical research projects to receive over £3m in British funding in 2015 via the BIRAX Regenerative Medicine Initiative. Not only are Israeli universities not held…
http://ymlp.com/zTdcsb MPs’ chance to hold Hammond to account for Security Council vote Situation still dire in Gaza – Minister It may come to be seen as one of the greatest ironies in the history of the…
LDFP deplores the failure of the UK government to stand alongside France and vote in favour of the UN Security Council resolution setting a timetable for withdrawal by Israel to 1967 borders. This flies in…
http://www.btselem.org/map Interactive map – The West Bank and The Gaza Strip This complete, interactive map of the West Bank and Gaza includes information about Palestinian communities and Israeli settlements, checkpoints, the separation barrier, agricultural gates…
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…
Whether or not the proposal becomes law, the vote itself broadcasts to the world that this government opposes a negotiated two-state solution. The Israeli government voted to endorse legislation to extend Israeli law to settlements in…
Israel and Egypt close border crossings as Gaza struggles to rebuild from Israeli onslaught. Despite widespread calls for increased humanitarian aid and economic activity, the approximately 1.8 million people living in the Gaza Strip have…
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 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…
