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The EU is to seek compensation after Israeli forces demolished tents and other Palestinian facilities it funded in a village in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank.
Book Club: Jeff Halper argues that the only way to decolonise Palestine is to dismantle Israeli structures of domination and control and replace them with a single democratic state.
At 75, the UN is still failing Palestinians
Comment: Ambiguous UN ideals of hope and peace ignore the political imbalances that have granted Israel impunity at the expense of Palestinian rights and autonomy, writes Ramona Wadi.
The progressive vote and the 2020 election
Comment: The rapid growth of the progressive vote in America over the past four years reveals how voting patterns will continue to change in ...
Palestine: A history punctuated by the intifadas
Comment: To mark 20 years since the Second Intifada, Maher al-Charif takes a look back at the 1940 general strike and armed rebellion, and the ...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Book Club: Rashid Khalidi's masterful book traces a hundred years of colonial war against Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and Israel but backed by Britain and the US.
Four participants withdraw from Israeli documentary festival, citing BDS
Four participants of Docaviv 2020 have withdrawn themselves and their entries after a campaign by BDS.
UK's Trade Union Congress describes Israeli practices as 'apartheid'
The UK's Trade Union Congress has described Israel as participating in 'apartheid practices' and has urged for a just solution.
Israel-UAE 'peace plane' leaves suffering Gazans behind
Comment: As the Israeli-UAE 'peace' agreement takes centre stage, it deflects from a renewed siege on Gaza and the UN's failure to address ...
'Cultivating settlements': Israel's colonial expansion rebranded
Comment: Dropping the term 'annexation' will make it easier for Israel to continue its colonial project without being reprimanded by the ...
MSF has a flaw its white saviours can't solve
Comment: The functioning of MSF and other humanitarian organisations is inherently racist. Whether or not it can shed its colonial attitudes ...
Handpicking historians to discuss France-Algeria's colonial history won't help
Comment: Algeria and France are about to have a long overdue discussion about their colonial past. But will it be anything other than ...
Freedom of speech and the exceptional case of Palestine
Comment: Too many 'progressives' are unwilling to extend their anti-racist and anti-colonial values to support for Palestine, writes Randa ...
Long-Bailey slipped up, but exporting Israeli violence is unacceptable
Comment: Sacking Long-Bailey for making a factual mistake about an otherwise verified practice is a low-down attempt to punish Labour's left, ...
Black Lives Matter UK stands with Palestine against 'colonialism'
Black Lives Matter UK has spoken in solidarity with Palestine as annexation looms.
Palestinian BDS movement backs #BlackLivesMatter anti-police brutality protests
The largest Palestinian boycott coalition released a statement to announce its resolute solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter protesters demonstrating against police brutality in the US and elsewhere.
How Palestine solidarity became a litmus test in Germany
Comment: Germany's attempt to muzzle thinker and philosopher Achille Mbembe on the grounds of anti-semitism amounts to an extension of Israeli ...
The common thread between Palestine's Nakba and Israeli annexation
While Palestinians marked 72 years of the Nakba, Israel saw the birth of a new coalition government poised to annex the West Bank.
Five books on Palestine to read during Covid-19 lockdown
Book Club: From history, culture, to food, fiction and beyond, here are five brilliant books on the theme of Palestine to discover while on ...
Writings on the Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories
Book Club: Thomas Suarez has organised a moving collection of oral histories conveying the hopes and humanity of Palestinians living under ...
Benny Gantz's betrayal has secured Israel's right-wing future
Unity talks effectively split the Blue and White coalition and ended any semblance of real opposition to Likud, ensuring that Netanyahu will ...
India's new Kashmir domicile law mirrors Israel's settler-colonial blueprint
India has passed a new domicile law in Kashmir which residents fear will change the demographic status of the Muslim-majority territory.
Squandering the Palestinian right of return
Comment: The absence of demands that prioritise the Palestinian right of return as a political right will adversely affect the struggle of all ...
Trump-Netanyahu issue a new colonial mandate in Palestine
Comment: Trump and Netanyahu's plan is effectively a 21st century neo-mandate, mirroring the most insidious aims and values of the 1922 British ...
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