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...

Israel's concern with its public image was on display yesterday, when local media reported that former Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Major General Nitzan Alon has described this year's bombing...

If Palestine is treated as an exception, the settler-colonial narrative is legitimised. Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick's book, Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics is an...

As Israel continues to approve illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, Irish politician Chris MacManus, a member of the European Parliament for Sinn Féin, has criticised the...

As happens each year during the Palestinian olive harvest, Israel's illegal settlers are destroying olive trees and attacking Palestinian farmers. The International Committee of the Red Cross has said...

"We're trying to avoid having confrontations with the US administration," Palestine's Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, stated in a recent interview with the Times of Israel. Obviously, US...

Depoliticising the Palestinian people when it comes to their rights is a tactic Israel endorses and utilises. Palestinians "are our neighbours, they are not going anywhere," Israeli Prime Minister...

A political crisis that has cast the spotlight on the illegitimacy of the Palestinian leadership cannot be swept under the carpet by a speech to the UN General Assembly....

Building upon his speech to the UN General Assembly, Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, warned that if Israel rejects the two-state compromise, which it has already given the colonial...

Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise in Palestine-Israel is based. Palestine's economy is tied perpetually...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas's long rigmarole at the UN General Assembly provided only a partial historical reckoning. The link between colonialism and the UN, notably within the context...

Recent statistics corroborate the growing resentment in the occupied Palestinian territories against the Palestinian Authority and its leader Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research (PSR)...

A few weeks after Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz dangled the promise of a few concessions to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's illegitimate rule, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has articulated...

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...