Blogs – Politics

Algeria suspended a 20-year friendship treaty with Spain this week and moved to limit trade with its northern neighbour, raising more questions about the potential impact on the long-established...

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with members of the Palestinian community in Brazil at Plaza Sao Rafael hotel in Porto Alegre state. A delegation from...

The UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry recently released report on the violations in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has infuriated Israel and sparked another statement from the...

On the fertile clay plains of Sudan's Gezira Scheme, farmers would have normally started tilling the soil weeks ago before planting out rows of sorghum, peanuts, sesame, and other...

Outside one of Lebanon's leading hospitals, desperate parents arrive seeking help for their sick children, while inside its pediatric intensive care unit the beds lie empty and unattended. There...

On the 55th anniversary of the 1967 war and the commencement of Israel's military occupation over Palestinian territory, the Palestinian Authority's Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, feebly called out the...

Israel's Military Court of Appeals has ruled that documents pertaining to the Kafr Qasem massacre, which happened in 1956, may now be declassified. In February 2017, Israeli historian, Adam...

Israel's public relations and diplomacy may be running into a few pitfalls, as US mainstream media outlet CNN explicitly called out Israel's responsibility in the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. During...

At an agricultural storage complex in the Egyptian city of Banha, Ahmed Nasser watches truck after truck offload freshly-threshed grain from the surrounding Nile Delta. Cut off from much...

When Palestinians speak of their ongoing Nakba (Catastrophe), they are imparting a political consciousness which the international community refuses to recognise. For world leaders, diplomats and international organisations, Palestine...

A subtle shift in official US statements suggests Washington believes reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is better than the alternatives, despite the advances in Iran's nuclear program, diplomatic...

Concern about the election of Australia's new left-wing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his political stance on Israel is already making news in local and Israeli media. Outgoing Prime...

"In the face of enemy violence, the Zionist answer has always been settlement, security and immigration," Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett declared during a visit to the illegal Elkana...

While there is still much focus on the extrajudicial killing of Palestinian-American journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, calls for justice will remain resonant, at least presently. However, Israel has perfected...

Israel's coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the...

The extrajudicial killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli sniper last week has led to Israel's media clamouring for the occupation state's impunity to be upheld....

Once again, the world woke yesterday to the news that Israel had targeted a journalist, this time killing Palestinian American Shireen Abu Akleh. The 51-year-old died after a sniper...

The European Union is, as usual, taking the wrong approach when it comes to dealing with Israel's violations of international law. With over 1,200 Palestinians facing forced eviction from...

Around 600 Palestinians are currently being held by Israel under administrative detention orders, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked. The number is the highest since 2016 when...

Following several months of protests by Muslim families who claim their children are being "kidnapped" by Swedish authorities, one of the founders of the Nordic Committee for Human Rights...

Since 2021, criticism of Israel has focused heavily on its apartheid system and practices. The gradual awareness within the international community, since B'Tselem's declaration, which was followed by that...

Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called for "international support for returning calm to Jerusalem" when tweeting about updating US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the...

The international community's non-committal attitude towards Israeli colonial violence in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa is not new. It does, however, build upon the established narrative in 2019, when the former...

At an international level, Israel continues to be rewarded for its human rights violations. As momentum gains over Israel's apartheid practices, even by the UN's own Special Rapporteurs, the...

Can we speak of the sustainability of humanitarian aid in the face of ongoing colonial expansion and perpetual dispossession? Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini who heads the UN Relief and Works...

In March 2021, a leaked memo from the US addressed to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, indicated that the Biden administration might take a different approach from that of...

When the UN does nothing but perfunctory duties, human rights and civil society organisations are brought to full stop; a dead end. Earlier this week, the Palestinian Centre for...

The vendors of the Old City of Jerusalem are looking forward to a successful economic season in the month of Ramadan, but the uncertainty of the field and political...

A recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) places Israel in 10th place when it comes to the share of global arms exports from 2017 to...

UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk has issued one of his strongest condemnations yet of Israeli apartheid in a report to the 49th regular session of the UN Human Rights...

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, gave additional proof that Palestine is far from a priority for the Biden administration. During a press briefing in Ramallah following a meeting...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Finance Minister Shukri Bishara met with World Bank senior directors this week in Ramallah, urging that pressure should be placed on Israel...