The Permanent Observer for the State of Palestine at the UN, Riyad Mansour, pointed out the unsustainability of donor funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...

While Israel prefers to obliterate the 1948 Nakba from its historical memory despite being the perpetrator of Palestine's ethnic cleansing and colonisation, the same cannot be said for the...

As Israeli colonial violence resulted in the forced displacement of the 200 residents of Ein Samiyah in Area C of the Occupied West Bank, the range of reactions, from...

"Oral histories always beg the question of what lives and cultural forms are isolated, erased and made insignificant by bringing this narrative to the fore," Livia Wick writes in...

The Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, recently made another appeal for funding, this time to the Arab League. "Support...

In 2019, when the Trump administration revealed the so-called "Deal of the Century", a hypothetical capital of Palestine in the town of Abu Dis was revealed as the alternative...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas never fails to blunder in his speeches. Speaking at the UN in New York on the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, Abbas requested...

"The thought that an international organisation could mark the establishment of one of its member states as a catastrophe or disaster is both appalling and repulsive," wrote Israel's UN...

The EU Delegation in Israel only has a problem with Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's Minister of National Security, and not with the existence and continuation of Israel as a colonial...

The humanitarian paradigm for Palestinians is not working, the UN should be informed. On the assumption that the Institution holds a shard of respect towards human rights. For several...

The Palestinian Authority is decades behind in its political approach. Israel is not "continuing" to destroy the two-state paradigm – it has already destroyed it. Ramallah has learnt its...

Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails have suffered unprecedented levels of exploitation. At best, a hunger strike ends when Israel decides it can make a few concessions, and a...

With no reference to the political turbulence that Israel is currently experiencing within its settler-colonial society, let alone the horrors perpetrated by Zionist terror groups during the 1948 Nakba...

To commemorate the 75th anniversary since the establishment of Israel's colonial enterprise, the National Library of Israel has embarked upon a new project themed "Operation Diary: the Founding Generation...

On Palestinian Prisoners' Day, the Palestinian Authority (PA) stayed silent about its detention and torture of Palestinians in its prisons. The PA makes some prisoners more worthy of mention...

When Israel targeted Palestinian non-governmental rights organisations in 2021 and 2022, the Palestinian Authority embarked on its own exploitation campaign. "In a show of solidarity, President Abbas meets with...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has been operating since 1 May 1950 under repeatedly renewed mandates in the absence of a political solution. In...

Israeli media are swift to react to the slightest criticism that lays bare the farce of Israel's security narrative. Recent comments on Twitter by the UN's Special Rapporteur for...

The UN and its affiliated institutions have come up with various futile initiatives purportedly aimed at holding Israel accountable for its human rights violations. Agenda Item 7 is no...

When the Palestinian Authority speaks about the "support" it receives from the international community it would do well to revisit the blatant hypocrisy at the UN Security Council briefing...

Brendan Ciaran Browne's contribution to the literature on Palestine is not only welcomed, but sharply focused. Veering away from the mainstream discourse that protects the two-state compromise at the...

At the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Palestinian human rights organisations, Al Haq and Addameer drew attention to the systematic torture of Palestinians prisoners in...

Last month, Israel's National Security Minister, the far-right extremist Itamar Ben-Gvir, sought to facilitate the process for Israeli civilians to obtain firearms, citing a rise in applications since 2022...

US President Joe Biden placed much emphasis on rhetorically opposing Israel's settlement expansion. Hence the reaction from Washington over the Israeli Knesset passing the second and third readings of the Disengagement Law that...

Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, did not take long to issue another treacherous statement after explicitly calling for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be wiped out. During a...

Last week, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged the current Israeli settler violence against the Palestinian people following a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant. "The United States...

When the Palestinian Authority speaks about Israel's settler-colonialism, it dilutes any possible impact immediately by mentioning the two-state compromise. During a joint press conference with his Italian counterpart Antonio...

While the emerging Palestinian resistance has declared its opposition to Israel, the Palestinian Authority has unleashed its security services on the Palestinian people. On Wednesday, the PA security services...

Azad Essa's book, Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel (Pluto Press, 2023), offers detailed insights into the politics of Zionism and Hindutva. With an introduction by...

For decades, the international community has assumed that it could subjugate Palestinians in the occupied West Bank with financial aid and bogus state-building measures. The Palestinian Authority, which advocates...

"What happened in Huwara was a pogrom carried out by law-breakers," said Major General Yehuda Fuchs, who is in charge of the Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank....

Last week, Palestinian Envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said that he was "happy" about the international response to the UN Security Council Presidential Statement which replaced the draft...