- The propagandists are having an increasingly hard time explaining Israel's vaccine apartheid. Broadly speaking, there are about six million Israeli Jews and 6.5 million Palestinian Arabs (mostly Muslims and...
- It has been a long time coming. Earlier this month, a panel of judges ruled that the International Criminal Court (ICC) could investigate Israel for war crimes in the...
- Rabbi Meir Kahane is considered something of a prophet by the Israeli right-wing. He openly advocated expelling all Palestinians from historic Palestine between the river and the sea –...
- Just after Christmas, Jonathan and Esther Pollard were flown on a private jet from New Jersey to Tel Aviv. After touching down, Jonathan kissed the tarmac and was greeted...
- Last week when I broke the story of Assaf Kaplan, a recent Labour Party hire, the main feedback – often objection – I received on social media went along...
- When I first began my journey into the Palestine solidarity movement two decades ago, there was much debate about whether or not Israel is truly an apartheid state. These...
- Israeli human rights group B'Tselem made the headlines this week when it released a new paper in which – for the first time – it described Israel as an...
- On the evening of 18 November, 1985, Jay, an innocent-looking analyst, left his office at the US Naval Intelligence. Jay was in his early thirties, looked slightly overweight, sported...
- Earlier this month, Israeli and British military officials signed a joint agreement to formalise and increase their "defence relationship". The full terms of the pact are secret, but it...
- Anyone visiting the West Bank, as I have done on many occasions, will discover something rather common, especially in rural communities: signs, billboards and plaques advertising the European Union...
- In 2018, veteran Palestine solidarity campaigner and Jewish anti-Zionist Tony Greenstein was expelled from the Labour Party after being smeared as an anti-Semite. As has been seen so often...
- A new report on the Gaza Strip by a United Nations (UN) agency makes for sobering reading. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reports that the economic...
- There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that's exactly what Western governments...
- Although it is only one of Israel's many injustices, the case of Mohammed El-Halabi is a particularly egregious example of the colonial-settler state's criminality. El-Halabi was a leading Palestinian...
- At the start of this year, in this column, I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming, one way or another. The West Bank and the...
- Although the final full results of the US presidential election have yet to be officially announced, all the indications are there that Joe Biden has won the electoral college...
- This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was...
- Believe it or not, the Jewish Chronicle hasn't always looked increasingly like a racist, anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim rag. Under the ownership of Asher Myers and Israel Davis between 1878 and...
- We are now only ten days away from the US presidential election. Like it or not, the election affects us in the UK almost as much as those in...
- Palestinian political prisoner Maher Al-Akhras has been on hunger strike for 83 days now. A father of six children, Al-Akhras was arrested by Israel in July and has been...
- On Saturday, Palestine solidarity activists will be protesting once again outside the UK headquarters of the Israeli arms firm Elbit. The new group, Palestine Action, has called for supporters...
- A message left on the answerphone of a 71-year-old Jewish woman said: "You f***ing Nazi b**ch… You should burn in the gas oven. You dirty f***ing b**ch…. Stinking, stinking...
- Recently, I conducted a long interview with former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone for an upcoming project. He told me a number of interesting things. Right-wing commentator Charles Moore...
- The signing of the so-called "Abraham Accords" last week was an empty sham. A "peace deal" between three countries – Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain –...
- The Trades Union Congress (TUC) this week agreed a motion proposed by the general union Unite, opposing Israel's plan to annex much of the West Bank, and calling for...
- Last week, US President Donald Trump's administration announced that it was imposing economic sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The decree was announced by...
- The release of leading Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activist Mahmoud Nawajaa last month was a welcome reminder that people power can work. When Nawajaa was kidnapped by...
- "The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies" – thus spoke the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl. Herzl was far from the only Zionist...
- The massive explosion which devastated Beirut earlier this month was nothing short of a catastrophe. Some 220 people lost their lives and, according to the BBC, as many as...
- One year ago I predicted in this column that a Saudi embassy to Israel in Jerusalem was coming soon. With last week's news about the United Arab Emirates, it looks as if we...
- It is a common platitude amongst some of the weaker parts of the Palestine solidarity movement that "Israelis want peace" and do not support their government's policies of oppression...
- A nine-year-old boy shouts: "Leave dad alone. Get out. Your dog doesn't scare me!" The boy's home has just been invaded in the middle of the night by a...