Debates

Late on Sunday night, the Israeli Air Force launched dozens of airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip – as many as 50, according to an official source –...

Israel and its advocates seek to deny the historical record, obfuscate what is happening on the ground today, and undermine strategies for change

In recent years, Israel's military court system has been the subject of well-deserved – and long over-due – scrutiny, thanks to its almost 100 percent conviction rate of Palestinians...

The Israeli government and its supporters routinely play down the significance of West Bank settlements as an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians. One recent example of this came...

Earlier this year, I took a look at a booklet by the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) called 'The Apartheid Smear', authored by staffer Alan Johnson. Intended...

Once again, Israeli opposition politician and war crimes suspect Tzipi Livni has been granted diplomatic immunity by the British government for a private visit to London. Last week, Scotland...

A new report has revealed how 2,752 structures were demolished in Bedouin Palestinian communities in the Negev over the last three years, part of what human rights activists have...

Pro-Israel MPs were accused this week of 'hijacking' a Westminster debate on UK government foreign aid in order to attack the Palestinian Authority (PA) and smear Israeli human rights...

A UK charity is facing regulatory scrutiny and political pressure following revelations that it is acting as a conduit for donations to illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied West...

  Mark Regev, the well-known former spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office, was recently appointed as ambassador to the UK. One of Regev's first public engagements on assuming...

  The former deputy mayor of Jerusalem had a stark warning for his American audience. Using official figures, Meron Benvenisti showed how the Israeli government had "proceeded methodically and...

"If there are other inhabitants there, they must be transferred to some other place. We must take over the land. We have a greater and nobler ideal than preserving...

Claims published over the weekend by the Sunday Telegraph that the UK government “pulled” funding for War on Want (WoW) in response to its Palestine solidarity activities have been...

Six-year-old Israa Abu Khussa and her 10-year-old brother Yassin were still sleeping when the Israel Air Force launched four airstrikes across the Gaza Strip in the early hours of...

This is the second in a two-part report on how Israel and its friends are battling the boycott. The first part was published yesterday and can be read here....

On February 17, British Cabinet Minister Matthew Hancock stood alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and announced the publication of "new guidance" for local authorities concerning procurement....

"These people have gone too far…" MK Nissan Slomiansky, February 10, 2016 Many Palestinian citizens of Israel "take their rights too far." Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin, May 13,...

On Wednesday, Palestinian youths from a village in the northern West Bank attacked Israeli Border Police officers outside Damascus Gate, in Occupied East Jerusalem, killing one and wounding another....

Apartheid, in the words of the Rome Statute, is when inhumane acts are committed "in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial...

***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article, and pages it links to, contains information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors. A new academic study in the peer-reviewed...

On Wednesday, a debate was held in the British Parliament on the issue of Palestinian child prisoners detained by Israeli forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The same...

Two weeks ago, the Israeli cabinet gave its approval to proposed legislation that would “impose new regulations on Israeli non-profit groups that receive funds from foreign governments.” The ‘Transparency...

Hundreds of Jewish Israelis demonstrated on Saturday in the northern city of Afula, after construction tenders issued for new housing were won by Palestinian citizens from nearby villages. The...

A law professor at Chicago's Northwestern University gave a lecture as the guest of a right-wing Israeli organisation whose head supports the "transfer" of Palestinians, it has emerged. Eugene...

The Guardian, often accused of bias by pro-Israel lobby groups, is excluding Palestinian voices from its comment pages, an examination of two years of coverage has revealed. Out of...

The London School of Economics (LSE) has been accused of bowing to external “lobby groups”, following the university’s public criticism of the student Palestine Society. The controversy centres around...

The UK advertising watchdog is facing calls for an inquiry after rejecting a complaint about an Israeli government-issued tourism brochure depicting the West Bank as part of Israel. Cross-party...

On Tuesday, October 27, a full-page advertisement appeared in The Guardian, announcing the support of more than 300 UK-based scholars for an academic boycott of Israel. A week on,...

When US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the Middle East last week, for meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the senior...

During the first nine months of 2015, Israel killed 26 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and injured, on average, 45 Palestinians every week. Over the last...

Over the last few days, one question has been repeated over and over again: are we witnessing the beginning of a new intifada in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)?...

1. The 'status quo' is already changing In 2014, almost 11,000 Jews entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. This represented a 28 percent increase from the previous year – and...