Middle East Near You

The decolonial approach in this collection of studies offers an important and at times over looked perspective of how Palestinians have become ensnared in a settler-colonial and neoliberal project....

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is spearheading an initiative ahead of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, urging governments and diplomats to reject the so-called anti-Israel bias at an international...

What does the Palestinian Authority care about the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails? If the rhetoric of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh is all we have to go...

The recent meeting between Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas established that Palestinians are being exploited in order to provide for the PA's stability...

The Palestinian Authority's stances in the aftermath of Nizar Banat's extrajudicial killing at the hands of its own security services have ushered in no promise of accountability. While the...

In terms of state-building and diplomatic negotiations, the occupied West Bank has been perceived in starkly different terms from Gaza. With the international community funnelling financial assistance to the...

Yesterday's meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has irked both Israeli and Palestinian officials. The Israelis have suggested that Gantz might be...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is playing with words to advance the colonial state's de-facto annexation of the occupied West Bank. In an interview with the New York Times,...

There is a stark difference in the language used by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its April 2017 report which describes Israel as having committed crimes of apartheid, and...

So "deeply concerned" is the UN at the Israeli raid of the offices of Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP), that the belated official statement by the special rapporteurs suggests...

Another call by Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh for international protection for the people of occupied Palestine speaks volumes about Ramallah's complicity in violent acquiescence, rather than the...

The Palestinian Authority has stepped up its notorious "accomplishments" against the Palestinian people. Statistics published by the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) show that in June,...

Capital and State Building in the West Bank

Israel's dependence on being able to act with absolute impunity through its military and other institutions, as well as its illegal settlers, continues to leave a trail of oppressive...

Palestine has been lost through decades of waiting, while the UN sets the scene to aid Israel's colonial plunder. Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, now dissociated from his tenure,...

So brief is the international community's attention span when it comes to Palestinian rights, that the forced evictions planned by Israel for the residents of Sheikh Jarrah have become...

UN independent experts have urged the Palestinian Authority to reschedule the parliamentary and presidential elections, which PA leader Mahmoud Abbas cancelled under the pretext of Palestinians in Jerusalem not being allowed to vote....

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...