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Following the signing of last year's Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, the international community woke up to the normalisation of Israel's colonisation of Palestine; nobody seemed to...

When European diplomats visit the occupied Palestinian territories to observe the damage wrought by Israel's home demolitions and forced displacement, the only response is generally to "urge the Israeli...

US President Joe Biden has transferred $135.8 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), following the signing of the 2021-2022 Framework for Cooperation and with additional...

Jerusalem is once again in the diplomatic crosshairs over US President Joe Biden's intention to reopen the American Consulate in Jerusalem, which was closed by the Trump Administration in...

So many stories of Palestine and Palestinians remain untold. The brevity associated with news reports barely scratches the surface of the ramifications of Israeli settler-colonialism, let alone allow non-Palestinians...

Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid stressed the importance of a "new start" in relations with the EU, during a meeting of the European Foreign Affairs Council yesterday. The EU's...

The Palestinian Authority has two ways of dealing with detainees and demonstrators. When the occasion arises, particularly if coordinated hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails make international...

Whenever Israel bombs Gaza, donor countries are expected to raid their treasuries and manage the resultant humanitarian crisis. The aftermath of the latest colonial aggression against the enclave is...

The Palestinian Authority might not have envisaged that the killing of Nizar Banat by its security services would have unleashed such a response from the Palestinian people. Ongoing demonstrations...

In the international community's narrative of illusory state-building in Palestine, the Palestinian Authority's security services are dissociated from violence. Whether such violence is meted out according to PA Leader...

At a time when Palestine is becoming increasingly isolated, and the Palestinian struggle for liberation is being smothered under the normalisation agreements, the importance of internationalist solidarity cannot be...

The international community speaks of mechanisms, while Israel is preoccupied with exploiting the need for Gaza to be reconstructed to free the Israelis held by Hamas in the enclave....

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has been sworn in for a second term – another extension in which Palestinians will acquaint themselves with "There is no Plan B," now bolstered...

When Palestinians face the prospect of the colonisation of the last remaining shards of their land by Israel, the answer is surely not collaboration with the right-wing apartheid state....

In July last year, the EU's High Representative Josep Borrell penned a brief blog warning against Israel's annexation of the occupied West Bank. "As someone with a personal connection...

A single, perceived omission, according to Israel's colonial agenda, was enough to turn down requests for the EU's Middle East Peace Envoy Sven Koopmans to visit Israel. This was,...

The US will not get involved in the current government turbulence in Israel, but remains committed to the security of the settler-colonial state, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki...

Two weeks ago, while the international community was busying itself with statements condemning Hamas rockets in an attempt to steer the narrative away from Israel's colonial expansionism, Palestinians were...

During each major Israeli offensive against Gaza, the Palestinian Authority is careful not to antagonise the settler-colonial state with its rhetoric. Its sights are perpetually set on the aftermath,...

When it comes to Palestine, the Republic of Ireland continues to lead the way over Israel's violations of international law. A recent motion by Sinn Fein calling out Israel's...

As happened in the aftermath of Israeli's military offensive labelled with huge irony as Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the Palestinian Authority's dithering over protecting Palestinians and actually doing...

Somdeep Sen's introductory observation in his book Decolonising Palestine: Hamas Between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Cornell University Press, 2020) is a telling statement that also reflects on the...

At a time when Israel is escalating its attacks against the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority would do better to address its failures rather than pontificate about Jerusalem. Any...

So adamant is the US assertion about Israel's "right to defend itself" that President Joe Biden has approved a $735 million arms deal for the settler-colonial state, at the...

The Biden administration has been presented with an opportunity to sound its rocket rhetoric after Hamas retaliated against the Israeli colonial violence unleashed upon Palestinians in the occupied West...

The international community is quite happy to keep up the narrative of the "barren land" until Israel's colonial violence escalates to attract global attraction and condemnation. When this happens,...

US President Joe Biden has given yet another shard of proof that his policies will follow the legacy of his predecessor Donald Trump. In his first call with the...

The Palestinian Authority couldn't have hoped for better timing for the release of the Human Rights Watch report detailing Israel's apartheid system and violations. It's just a pity for...

"Occupation is akin to an earthquake, and so are immigration and desolation and everything people leave behind." This rumination by Nidal, the protagonist in Sahar Khalifeh's literary novel, My...

The Palestinians mentioned apartheid in connection with Israel long before B'Tselem used the description. Now it is the turn of Human Rights Watch (HRW) to — rightfully, if belatedly...

In another example of collaboration between the government of Israel and its illegal settlers, the Israeli Settlements' Council has started to issue eviction orders to Palestinians setting up vegetable...

A brief but revealing press statement marked the meeting of US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield with the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...