Opinion

On January 16, 2013 the Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed a petition against government plans to forcibly displace around 1,000 Palestinians living in rural villages in the...

Syria once smelt of strong black coffee and sheesha pipes. People played backgammon in crowded coffee shops late into the night, whilst the aroma of fresh chicken drifted through...

If Israel had any ambition of appearing worthy of a humanitarian stance, it has failed miserably. Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh was scheduled to be released from prison 'in...

Over the last two years, the Syrian conflict has claimed 70,000 lives and displaced one million people. It has also claimed the lives of a significant number of media...

"We are building our state and to me that matters more than causing harm to some group or individual." This statement uttered by a former Palestinian Authority official to...

Despite Samer Issawi's consistent refusal to bargain with Israeli authorities, the past days have been replete with offers of exile in return for ending the hunger-strike. According to Jawad...

In what is being considered a major victory against administrative detention, Samer Issawi has accepted an agreement negotiated by Israeli and Palestinian officials to end his hunger strike. The...

The village known as the Swedish Village, which was established by Swedish donors in 1965 on 40 dunams of land, has been forgotten with the passing of time. Situated...

The Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (Addameer) launched in April a global 'Stop Administrative Detention Campaign'. The initiative seeks to highlight Israel's human rights violations against Palestinian...

Last week, Channel 4's Unreported World offered an insight into the Gaza Strip's property market. With almost 2 million inhabitants trapped on a sliver of land 25 miles long,...

Israel has informed the High Court of Justice that the Israeli army will halt the use of white phosphorus in civilian areas, following a petition from various human rights...

Earlier this month, Israeli forces declared plans to demolish 11 homes in Deir Nidham in the northwest of Ramallah; their destruction will make way for the expansion of the...

I am a 38 year old white Caucasian United States natural born citizen and Muslim. The details that follow explain my treatment at the hands of the Israeli Defense...

After boycotting a scrutiny session earlier this year, deputy foreign minister Ze'ev Elkin has confirmed seeking reconciliation with the UN Human Rights Council, depending upon the council's willingness to...

The right to land and the right to live have taken on a sinister dimension in Israel, as courts consider Israel's 'right' to expel African migrants to an unidentified...

For the past three months pop-star hopefuls from across the Middle East have assembled in MBC's Beirut studios to compete for the title of Arab Idol. Every Friday they...

One of the most spectacular gifts that any of us may be granted by God during our lives is that you become acquainted with a brother not born of...

Former IDF commander, brigadier general of the Givati Brigade and Israeli ambassador to Tanzania, Yitzhak Pundak, expressed no remorse about the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948, declaring it...

Imagine the story of a man waiting eagerly and anxiously for the arrival of his first born child, and as he waits, he is unjustly detained and sentenced to...

According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Palestinians are faced with an additional and possibly permanent burden....

While international outrage over the plight of Samer Issawi has abated considerably, after the agreement between Israeli and Palestinian officials which terminated his hunger strike, the deterioration of other...

This morning army and police officers opened fire on pro-Morsi supporters as they prayed outside the Republican Headquarters in Cairo. The demonstrators were staging a peaceful sit-in outside the...

In a joint letter to the European Parliament, sixteen Palestinian and Israeli human rights organisations have urged the European Parliament to send a fact-finding mission to "assess the current...

What is going on in Egypt is not merely a political crisis but also an Egyptian struggle which transcends borders and will, no doubt, affect the Islamic world, putting...

Israel's reported decision to release 82 pre-Oslo Palestinian political prisoners has unleashed a furore among right wing Knesset members who are opposing the move. The prisoners who are mostly...

On Wednesday, the Knesset is expected to vote for parliamentary reform allegedly intended to preserve unity and enhance the government's prospects of serving a full electoral mandate. Based upon...

"Children have hobbies, and my hobby is throwing stones." The simplistic, out of context comment, uttered by a Palestinian teenager interviewed for a recently published New York Times report,...

Recent dangerous developments led to overthrew of Egypt's democratic experience whilst still in its infancy. These developments included constitutional violations, as well as violation of international law, which suggest...

While Israel continues to defy international law by further settlement approval and a lack of cooperation with the European Union about the recently publish guidelines restricting projects in areas...

A recent blog on the Times of Israel by the former president of the American Jewish Congress, Robert K. Lifton, has called upon Israelis to support Netanyahu's strategy with...

A sign of a hand with four fingers raised with the thumb closed is fast spreading as a profile picture among Facebook and Twitter users who reject the military...

Breaching Israeli military orders has become the norm, despite IDF claims that it endeavours to minimise physical harm to Palestinians. A report by Defence for Children international – Palestine...