Israel has announced new plans for the village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank, which has been demolished and rebuilt several times, and which attracted international attention...

The Palestinian Authority continues to attract negative publicity and erode its own standing with the Palestinian people. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas's recent meetings with Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz...

This week, the Fatah movement confirmed its ongoing dissociation from the people of Palestine and their occupied land when it "unanimously reasserted its confidence in President Mahmoud Abbas" in...

The administration of US President Joe Biden is employing diplomatic tact which says nothing about its foreign policy in terms of Palestine, other than that it is doing its...

Pluto Press has published the fourth, and rewritten edition of Paul Roger's "Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century". The first edition was published a little while after...

A diplomatic protest by European ambassadors against Israel's settlement expansion was perceived as an attack on the state itself by the Deputy Director-General of its Foreign Ministry, Aliza Bin...

While Palestinians have been calling out Israeli apartheid for years, it was the non-governmental organisation B'Tselem that made the headlines a year ago with its designation of Israel as...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is arguably more partial to fairy tales than politics. His latest address to the Fatah Revolutionary Council sums up all that is wrong with...

To prevent Hamas from politically gaining the upper hand over the Palestinian Authority, Israel heeded the US call to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas's rule by providing concessions for Palestinians. The...

The UN will be funding an open-ended investigation into Israeli war crimes against Palestinians, departing from this year's aggression against Gaza. For the first time – and this is...

Last week, the UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk once again exposed the UN's inaction over Israel's international law violations. "On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 2334...

"The occupation has remained unchallenged by an international order that seems willing to legitimise it as long as there is no accepted agreement to end it." Sara Roy's succinct...

Sometimes, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) finds good reason to issue stark condemnations. Recent comments by Knesset Member Mansour Abbas, who is part of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's...

In October, US State Department Spokesman Ned Price opposed "the expansion of settlements, which is completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and it...

Now that Israeli media has announced that US President Joe Biden shelved the opening of the US Consulate in Jerusalem for Palestinians, will the Palestinian Authority's Foreign Minister Riyad...

Israeli media have been pointing out that the Biden administration in Washington is not too bothered about the occupation state's illegal settlement expansion. There is little reason to doubt...

Israel's allies are fond of adamantly asserting that they will oppose any efforts to delegitimise the settler-colonial state, yet these "efforts", apart from singling out the Boycott, Divestment and...

Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas's UN General Assembly speech will remain a reference for a while longer. As Israel plans further settlement expansion, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for...

Israel seems to have acquired another formidably biased ally in the latest US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Her Trump era predecessor Nikki Haley once said, "If there's...

Memory trajectories and their loss are well portrayed in Mustafa Kabha and Nahim Karlinsky's book, "The Lost Orchard: The Palestinian-Arab Citrus Industry, 1850-1950" (Syracuse University Press, 2021). In the...

UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres's simplistic tweet does not suffice for a remembrance day created by the UN, let alone to acknowledge international complicity in the colonisation of Palestine....

Labelling Israeli settlement products "strengthens extremists, does not help promote peace in the region, and shows Belgium as not contributing to regional stability," according to Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister...

Yet another attempt at managing symbolic gestures by the Palestinian Authority, this time by Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh. "Whoever cannot punish Israel can at least help Palestine," he stated...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has provided another reason why Palestinians should not rely on the international community for a political solution to the colonial-occupation of their land by Israel....

The Palestinian Authority's official news agency, Wafa, ran a news brief yesterday commemorating the anniversary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) "Declaration of Independence". In other words, as Wafa clearly stated, Yasser Arafat accepted the...

Three weeks ago, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz designated six Palestinian civil society organisations as terror groups, on account of links to the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

"The Israeli settlements are a presumptive war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and should be treated as such by the international community," UN Special...

Situating the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) within the colonial and humanitarian context provides a great deal of insight into the...

"Israel has been defined too many years by the Israel-Arab conflict," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett complained in a recent interview with The Times. However, even Bennett's intentional...

From this year onwards, Palestine's national flag will be flown at half-mast on 2 November, as a reminder of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. This is according to a presidential...

Without oral testimonies, a good part of history is thrown into oblivion. What remains, then, is the reported, or publicised façade, one that disseminates a rudimentary sketch while abandoning...

The Palestinian Authority has found another issue to attach to its political agenda in an attempt to divert attention away from the fact that its leadership has lost all...