This is all over the wires, and it might be historic. John Kerry, Secretary of State, blamed the Israelis for the breakdown of peace talks during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday. Israel failed…
This cynical and useless game, whose only purpose is to prove again that the occupied ones are to blame, will end in bloodshed. Occasionally the chutzpah of the Americans, and even of the Israelis, believe…
The decline of Hamas may result in a new wave of chaos ARE the tables turning in Gaza? Whenever Egypt wanted to stop Israel and the Palestinian enclave fighting in the past, they would call…
Member of a trade union? You may be interested in this! The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is organising a conference for delegates from trade unions, sponsored by the TUC, on Saturday 5 April. It will hear…
I am writing today to express grave concern about a wave of legislative measures in the United States aimed at punishing and intimidating those who speak their conscience and challenge…
Q&A: Palestine’s Accession to International Treaties On Tuesday 1st April, following a unanimous decision by the Palestinian leadership, including the PLO Executive Committee President Mahmoud Abbas signed letters of accession to 15 multilateral treaties and…
By squeezing Hamas, Israel may be handing the strip over to Iran’s proxies or, worse still, it may have to confront a territory with no government at all. The decline of Hamas and increasing strength…
Last week, Israel found itself isolated and condemned in Geneva, as the United Nations Human Rights Council passed four damning resolutions, each by 46-1. The resolutions testify to grave violations of international law, including the…
Amid tensions over entry permits, Congressional sources say State Dept. rejecting those it believes violate Palestinian rights, TV report claims. The US State Department is denying visas to senior members of Israeli security forces whose…
Israel and its U.S. allies perpetuate a number of mistruths about Gaza, its role in the conflict and its centrality moving forward. If they are not challenged, violence will continue and the U.S. risks losing…
It is impossible not to be touched by the apocalyptic scenes emerging from the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus, besieged and cut off for months. The images are at once epic and personal.…
Israel famously prides itself on having, in the words of Ehud Barak, “the most moral army in the world“. Some of Israel’s apologists even claim that accusations the country’s soldiers fire on civilians, including children,…
Next week is the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. And if history is any indicator, that means thousands of right-wing activists pushing war with Iran, increased military aid to Israel, and a green…
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,…
Thursday March 6th SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies, First Annual Lecture – 100 Years Since WW1 and Balfour, Walid Khalidi of the Centre for Palestine Studies, Beirut – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh St.,…