Debates

In 2004, I wrote an article about the story of Nabil Saba, a man from Beit Jala whose family was expelled in the early 1970s to make way for...

"Egypt…‎‎‎ you won't blink an eye." This cliché is borrowed from the slogan of the Rotana Cinema satellite channel and it has been exclaimed frequently over the past four...

Etgar Keret, according to some, is "the most loved and widely read Israeli writer working today." Hailed as "one of the most prominent Israeli writers on the international literary...

On Sunday, an undercover unit of Israel's Border Police conducted an arrest raid in Shuafat refugee camp, an area of Occupied East Jerusalem locked behind the Separation Wall. Encountering...

Over the last two weeks, two Israeli war crimes suspects entered the UK. One, former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni, received diplomatic immunity in dubious circumstances. A second, former Israeli...

Almost a year on from the beginning of Israel's 'Operation Protective Edge' and the ceasefire that ended hostilities has largely held, albeit with dozens of Israeli attacks on Gaza...

-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has overruled his colleagues' recommendations and removed Israel from a list of parties guilty of grave violations of children's rights, it was revealed Monday. The...

The Israeli government's foreign policy is currently being managed by seven senior officials, a division of responsibilities shaped by domestic political concerns – but with more serious, global implications....

As Palestinians commemorate the 67th anniversary of the Nakba and the atrocities upon which Israel's settler-colonial state was established, the International Criminal Court is urging Israel to "cooperate" in...

67 years ago, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine unfolded through expulsions, massacres, and demolitions. Hundreds of villages were emptied, then levelled; centres of Palestinian urban life and community disappeared;...

In 2011, and in response to accusations of war crimes during the final months of conflict with the Tamil Tigers two years previously, the Sri Lankan government convened a...

Israel's Supreme Court has long been held up as a resolute defender of liberal values. Recent decisions handed down by its judges, however, provide an important opportunity to revisit...

The British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond didn't mince his words. Israel, he said, was guilty of "what looks and feels like a deliberate attempt to sabotage the two-state-solution." The...

Last night, I participated in a debate at the Cambridge Union on 'This House Believes Israel is a Rogue State.' Speaking alongside Ghada Karmi and Norman Finkelstein for the...

A report by UNESCO has documented the "material, human and educational damage" sustained by Gaza's higher education institutions (HEIs) during Israel's assault last summer. The UN agency's conclusion: that...

Last week, BBC's Panorama broadcast a documentary on "The Battle for British Islam" by John Ware, a journalist and film-maker. Ware followed this up with an extended op-ed in...

Over the last couple of weeks in Israel, in what has been called an "exceptionally widespread attack", politicians, op-ed writers, and reservists have urged the IDF Military Advocate General...

Speaking to the Security Council on Tuesday shortly after voting against the doomed Palestinian-drafted resolution on statehood, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power referred three times to an...

In 2012, then-Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in which he claimed that "Christians in ...

Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good…so far so good…so...

Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip over the summer prompted an unprecedented outpouring of solidarity for Palestinians in the West, from street protests to expressions of outrage by mainstream...

Writing in Israeli newspaper Haaretz this week, regular columnist Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie bemoaned the difficult task facing Israel's supporters internationally, in the aftermath of the devastating, murderous assault...

"Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM...

65-year-old Ahmed Suleiman Akram al-'Atawai and his 10-year-old grandchild Tala were running from Israel's onslaught on Shuja'iyya. As they fled, they were hit by Israeli artillery shells, and died....

On the eighth day of Israel's most recent assault on the Gaza Strip, a senior officer in the Israeli military commented on the overnight bombing of the house of...

Israel is at war with the Palestinian people. More accurately, Israel is writing a new, brutal chapter in its ongoing war against the Palestinian people, a horror story stretching...

The Israeli government's approval of an $86 million plan for tightening its grip over occupied East Jerusalem is the latest development in a process of colonisation that continues to...

As the Pope visits the 'Holy Land', much media coverage has focused on the current problems facing Christian Palestinians, and in particular, the so-called 'price tag' attacks being perpetrated...

The Nakba, Arabic for 'Catastrophe', was the ethnic cleansing by pre-state Jewish forces and the Israeli military of up to 90 percent of all Palestinians inside the newly-established State...

This week marks the 66th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Miska, a Palestinian village whose roughly 1,000-strong population was expelled in April 1948 by Haganah forces. Located around...

Last week, Palestinian activist Muhammad Kanaaneh was due to address Tel Aviv University students at an event marking Land Day, a commemoration of the bloody state repression of anti-land...

Last month at the University of Leeds, a debate was held on the boycott of Israel. The specific motion read: "This house believes that UK academics should boycott Israeli...