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…
On “This Week,” PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi on the impact of the Israeli ground offensive and airstrikes on Gaza. Published on 21 Jul 2014 http://youtu.be/aqzCWJEqjjI
Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers, Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, Swee Ang, on behalf of 24 signatories We are doctors and scientists, who spend our lives developing means to care and protect health and lives. We are…
A relative carries the body of four-year-old Qassim Elwan during his funeral in Gaza City on 19 July. Qassim was killed along with his brother by Israeli shelling the previous day. (Ezz al-Zanoun / APA…
In almost three decades of research and writing on Gaza, I have often asked myself, “Is there a language to really express the torment of Gaza and the way in which the world’s unflinching indifference…
Read the list of conditions published in the name of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and judge honestly whether there is one unjust demand among them. After we’ve said everything there is to say about Hamas:…
Hamas is offering Israel a 10-year truce if it accepts 10 conditions. The Jerusalem Post reports, based on an Israeli Channel 2 newscast, that Azmi Bishara announced the proposal on Al Jazeera television today. Bishara,…