By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban On August 29, 2010, Martin Indyk wrote an op-ed in The New York Times entitled “For once, hope in the Middle East”.  When I read...

Munir’s Story By Franklin Lamb Shatila Palestinian Refuge Camp, Beirut. The untreated psychic wounds are still open. Accountability, justice and basic civil rights for the survivors are still denied....

By Angelina Harutyunyan The protracted peace process between Israel and the Palestinians has made both parties and the international community sceptical about its chances of success. Although the two...

With every day that passes Israel further establishes itself as one of the world’s leading violators of human rights. To its British and American allies this may be seen...

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah The European Union (EU) is considered the main donor and bankroller of the Palestinian Authority (PA), an entity that more or less lives off...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban On the International Day of Democracy, satellite TV channels focused on the type of democracy imported, together with blood baths, disasters, wars and American invasions...

When the name of Rachel Corrie is mentioned you cannot help but pause for a painful moment; a tugging at the heart is the best way to describe it....

By Abdel Sattar Qassem The anchor at the TV station was surprised when I told him that the Palestinian Authority supported settlement activity and that I do not care...

IntroductionIsrael has been condemned, yet again, by the United Nations for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian laws. A UN report released last week has confirmed that...

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Warning from the Obama administration’s submission to Israeli pressure, in an interview with the Lebanese OTV, Michael Scheuer, a ‘former’ senior CIA officer, said: “Three hundred...

This quote from an international aid worker in Jerusalem prefaces a new briefing paper from Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre. Written by Dr. Jason Hart and Claudia Lo Forte,...

Dr Bouthaina Shaaban The United Nations Human Rights Council last week adopted a resolution condemning Israel for its attack on the aid flotilla on May 31.  The report said...

By Yvonne Ridley How many of you remember Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch? It was a wonderful comedic routine that transcended nationality and culture. Timeless in its appeal, it...

Beyond the Failed “Peace Process” By Alain Gresh Renewed Arab/Israeli negotiations, opened under the auspices of President Barack Obama in September, are undermined not just by settlement building but...

When I was being held in Israel in 2007 and undergoing a 12-hour interrogation session I remember my interrogator saying to me as he shrugged his shoulders ‘International Law?...

Reports that the headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists Union in Gaza have been shut down by Hamas security forces should concern everyone with an interest in hearing the truth...

By Khalid Amayreh The Right-wing Israeli government on Sunday, 10 October,  approved a proposal that  would force non-Jewish citizens to swear loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state. The  proposal...

By Yvonne Ridley in Syria After the collapse of the faux Middle East peace talks Israel’s growing isolation in the world is not entirely unexpected. A side-effect is that...

A conference in Beirut last week focussed on the shift of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from “Relief and Works...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban The recent and latest – but probably not the last – images of prisoners being abused by Israeli soldiers showed a blindfolded Palestinian woman trying...

By Khalid AmayrehThe recent Vatican synod on the deteriorating situation in Palestine-Israel did the right thing by pointing out that Israel ought to discontinue the use of the controversial...

By Omar Radwan Vitriolic racism and hatred has become the Israeli normIsrael appears to be awash with Jewish hate preachers. In the past, rabbis who issued racist edicts or...

By Omar Radwan A new set of photographs taken by Israeli soldiers has appeared on the Facebook page of the Israeli human rights group “Breaking the Silence”.  These photos...

By Dr. Bouthaina ShaabanNews that a “strategic dialogue” was to take place between Israel and the United States was very brief; the news agencies hardly mentioned it. The names...

By Dr Bouthaina Shaaban When I asked in my previous article, “When will this conspiracy of silence end?” concerning more than eleven thousand Palestinian prisoners kidnapped from their homes...

By Renee Bowyer A group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked and set fire to an old Christian church in Jerusalem (Al Quds) on Friday night, 30th October. The church...

A conference in Beirut focussing on “European Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian issue” has attracted participants and speakers from across the Middle East and Europe. Organised by Al-Zaytouna Centre...

By Jared MalsinGAZA–Israeli soldiers shot a mentally ill Palestinian man in the leg when he ventured near the Erez crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Last Wednesday,...

By Khalid Amayreh Islamist parliamentarians in the West Bank and anguished families of political detainees being held by the Palestinian Authority have urged a visiting delegation of EU politicians...

A conference in Beirut focussing on “European Foreign Policy towards the Palestinian issue” has attracted participants and speakers from across the Middle East and Europe. Organised by Al-Zaytouna Centre...

By Maidhc Ó CathailWhile Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it’s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has...

By Omar RadwanA major reconciliation meeting between Hamas and Fatah is taking place today in Damascus. While this is not the first meeting between the two main Palestinian factions;...