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.,…
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…
Register for the Int. Conference Europe and Palestine: Past Disappointments & Future Hopes The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, is hosting…
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…
On February 9th 2013, in response to the call from Palestinian civil society, the Sainsbury’s campaign was launched calling on Sainsbury’s to cease all trade with companies complicit in the colonisation of Palestinian land. We call on…
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…
Key issues ● 15 Palestinian children were injured by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ● Two Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley were confined to their homes due to military training.…
Palestinian Authority setting up teams to battle Israel in every conceivable international forum, Israeli TV report says. The Palestinian leadership has reportedly decided to reject Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace…
Saturday 18 January 2014 12noon to 2pm Opposite the Israeli Embassy in London, Kensington High Street, W8 5NP London (exit High Street Kensington Underground station – turn right and walk for 3 minutes). End Israeli Attacks…
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…