Israel

Hundreds of settlers entered the holy grounds of Al-Aqsa Mosque to perform religious rituals under the protection of occupation authorities which had imposed a siege on the area and...

Israel is "deeply disappointed" with the Obama administration's announcement that it would work with the Palestinian unity government sworn in by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, Israeli...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for the establishment of alliances with moderate Arab states to achieve, as he put it, their common interests. Lieberman said yesterday: "Israel...

More than 200 Palestinian architects, planners and building professionals have written to Royal Institute of British Architects president Stephen Hodder in support of a motion supporting the suspension of...

An Israeli embassy-sponsored film festival is set to take place in London later this month, part of efforts to 'rebrand' an apartheid state increasingly the target of international boycotts....

The institutional and popular Zionist racism has become rampant all over Palestine and torturing the Palestinians living in Palestine has become an acceptable and even welcomed matter by the...

Israeli cabinet agreed yesterday to impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority (PA) because of the formation of a national unity government with Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reported today. The...

For Israel the most worrying aspect of the Palestinian unity government is the future of security coordination with the Palestinian Authority, which is a matter of conflict for the...

Seventy Palestinian prisoners were transferred by the Israeli Prison Authority to Israeli hospitals on Sunday following the deterioration of their health as a result of their hunger strike that...

On Monday morning Israeli air forces carried out a series of strikes targeting sites inside the Gaza Strip and Syrian territories, Al-Arabi Al-Jadid news website reported. The spokesperson for...

Palestinian student movements in Israel have organised two separate rallies, one at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba and the other at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, in solidarity with hundreds...

Israel's Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar and the legal adviser to the Israeli Government Yehuda Weinstein have barred the country's nuclear whistle blower, Mordechai Vanunu, from travelling to Britain for...

I find it rather strange that while Israeli leaders accuse Hamas of refusing to acknowledge the right of the Zionist State to exist they themselves are incapable of using...

On the eve of the swearing-in of his new government, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas seems headed for the biggest test of his political career. Not only has the Israeli...

The frailty of hope and the power of resistance weave an intricate story of contrasts. When the country in question is Palestine, hope and resistance merge and deviate as...

"We come together on this book not because we agree on everything – we don't – but because of a shared belief that Jews and Palestinians are destined to...

Flouting international human rights law and international humanitarian law, Israel's occupation of Palestine veers towards the illegal and illegitimate. Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International law in the Occupied...

It's 2012 and Leila Khaled can still manage to stir-up controversy. In May, the staff members at Manchester's branch of the Blackwell's bookshop were inundated with phone calls; the...

Antony Lerman has spent his whole working life at the heart of the Jewish community. While he is now well known for his radical views on Israel, it was...

I never met Kathleen's late husband Bill, though after reading 'It's All Right, I'm Only Crying', I feel as though I know him. I know that he liked to...

It has been often said that the conflict in Palestine cannot be resolved without a fundamental change of policy in Washington. There is some truth in this. No other...

It's the abundance of Raja Shehadeh's daily accounts, filled with frustration and despair, which makes you realise just how far the Israeli occupation reaches into every corner of Palestinians'...

Few issues on the world stage are more divisive than the Israel-Palestine conflict, which triggers a powerful emotional response even among people with little direct stake in it. But...

Recent statements made by the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, indicate a decline in British public and political support for Israel. It also indicates how much European public...

Let me start with a confession: I am a signed-up member of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, as well as the Friends of Palestine. Why? Because I am...

Jordan, described as a new "emerging market" with "high human development", is a forward thinking, predominantly Muslim state. It has signed an array of treaties and is the beneficiary...

Clayton Swisher's fascinating publication of the Palestinian Papers (leaked to and broadcast by Al Jazeera and The Guardian) is subtitled pessimistically "The End of the Road". His basic thesis...

Omar Barghouti is a founding member of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and so he is in a perfect position to write a book charting...

Western journalists often shy away from writing on Palestine. They believe that so much has already been written about the century-old conflict that it is hard to find a...

Author: Zeina B. Ghandour Hardback: 197 pagesPublisher: Routeledge (2010)ISBN 10: 0-415-48993-8Review by Samira QuraishyA Discourse on Domination in Mandate Palestine: Imperialism, Property and Insurgency sends the reader on a...

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas said that Israel is threatening to boycott the PA if a national unity government is formed. In a speech before 70 French pro-Palestinian activists...

The Israeli government has officially informed the Palestinian Authority that it will not allow three ministers from the Gaza Strip to enter Ramallah on Monday to participate in the...