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The English saying goes, "once bitten, twice shy". A more damning Arabic saying roughly translates to "the mind of someone trying something (that has failed again) is surely ruined"....
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The new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, delivered a speech to the UN that continued to expose her hypocrisy when talking about freedom, democracy, sovereignty and British values, to...
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Israeli forces today assassinated a Palestinian icon. She was not the leader of a political faction or a member of a resistance group. Shireen Abu Akleh was a Christian...
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The situation in Palestine gets worse by the day. However, this is not only from Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, including Sheikh Jarrah, but from the behaviour of the...
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The Palestinian people rightly saluted Hisham Abu Hawash as a brave man who was prepared to die in pursuit of his freedom. On 4 January, the occupation state of...
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Any hopes that the removal of Benjamin Netanyahu from power would bring us closer to a revitalised peace process or less oppression of the Palestinian people have been dashed....
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Ask any Palestinian about their connection with Palestine, wherever they live, and the olive tree would figure prominently in what Palestine means to them. This would be alongside the...
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The past few weeks have seen us waking up to news of more Palestinian deaths in Gaza or another attack on the peaceful residents of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem....
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As Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain, I was proud to work with our partners to organise the estimated 150,000-strong march from London's Marble Arch to the...
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Over the past few days, our TV screens have been filled with wall-to-wall coverage of the Israeli attacks on Palestinians across historic Palestine in which they have not distinguished...
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On 5 February, Palestinians saw a long tunnel open and a light flicker in the distance for justice. The International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber I "decided, by majority,...
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As I was reading an article headlined "Israel says 600 children given Covid jab had no serious side effects", my twitter feed was filled with messages expressing outrage about...
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No one should throw accusations of racism around lightly because, if proven, then swift action must follow. The trade union movement in Britain, which represents over six million British...
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While I was watching the red carpet being rolled out at Abu Dhabi airport to welcome the passengers on board flight LY971 from Tel Aviv, a tweet appeared on...
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The Israeli Ministry for Strategic Affairs is shifting its focus from fighting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), to fighting deligitimisation. It was initially established in 2006 for...
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As US President Donald Trump's term nears its end, his deal of the century to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has stuttered, and is possibly defunct. To Palestinians, it is...
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It is ten years since a live broadcast from the Mediterranean on Aljazeera TV came to an abrupt end. On 31 May 2010 I was watching human rights activists...
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When it comes to Israel, the international community has once again been exposed for the double standards and hypocrisy it reserves to support the rogue state. Many so-called western...
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The US and Israel, as well as its supporters, seek to deny the Palestinians their rights to freedom, justice and equality by claiming that the people are not ready...
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If any country which claims to be a democracy, its potential prime minister declares that the votes of a significant minority are not part of the democratic 'equation', they...
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Those interested in human rights should remember the name of Omar Haitham Al-Badawi, from Al-Arroub refugee camp near Hebron. He was hit by Israeli gunfire outside his house. An...
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Not a day goes by without another Israeli attack on various aspects of Palestinian life, be it through home demolitions, land confiscations, the abduction of youngsters in the night...
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John Bercow, the speaker of the UK's House of Commons, will be standing down soon. He has been an animated figure, whose gesticulations and dressing downs of MPs have...
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Israel's greatest weapon against peace is its endlessly fluid security needs. It really is a case of "how long is its security piece of string"? The piece of string...
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US Representatives, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, a thorn in the side of the American establishment and the pro-Israel lobby have been banned from entering Israel and Palestine. There...
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For decades now, the Palestinians have been looking for an 'honest peace broker' to bring an end to their suffering through a negotiated peace agreement with Israel. However, the...
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Donald Trump's senior advisor on the Middle East peace process, Jared Kushner has achieved something many have failed to achieve. He has managed to unite Palestinians at all levels...
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It is not 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 years since the Nakba, the Palestinian people's Catastrophe. This year the Palestinians will be marking the 71st year...
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The European Union is at a crossroads when it comes to the Palestine-Israel conflict. It can continue to provide cover for Israeli breaches of international law and oppression of...
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There is nothing left of the rotten fig leaves which have been used to cover Israeli Apartheid. On 19 July last year, Israel's parliament and main democratic institution, the...
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I had not heard of New Zealand's 38-year-old prime minster Jacinda Ardern until the recent mosque massacres in Christchurch in which over 50 Muslims attending Friday prayers were attacked...
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I wrote recently about an EU report on the growth of illegal Israeli settlements and argued that the EU was diligent in documenting Israel's-breaches of international law but that...