Palestine

Activism and protest have long been a part of a student's passage through university. From fighting for women's right to vote, to equal rights for African Americans; from standing...

Dear Mr. Clegg, Were we wrong about you? Your speech to the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel signalled the end of your relationship with the British electorate. It marked...

It appears the United States efforts to resume direct negotiations between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the Israeli Government has started to bear fruit. This comes amid widespread...

In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her...

It is not often that a mainstream British newspaper reports a positive story from Palestine and the Gaza Strip in particular. The respected Financial Times did just this in...

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Ahmed Moor was published in the...

Israel's right-wing government has exercised the ugliest forms of extortion by postponing strategic dialogue with Britain until it changes the law that allows the prosecution in its courts of...

Key Points: The recent stalemate in talks is not surprising as they followed a failed formula. No peace settlement can ever be reached if:– Israel continues to plan and...

If Israel wants to be accepted as a normal state among the family of nations then it must abandon its dangerous flirtation with apartheid-like policies. This week's clashes in...

Key points: Palestinian national reconciliation is indispensible to the conclusion of a just and lasting peace settlement and the implementation of any two-state solution. Any efforts to secure a...

The view of Al-Quds Al-Arabi The Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation's executive Committee has said that the Palestinian Authority is giving serious thought to ending its commitment to...

MEMO's Renee Boyer comments on Sharmine Narwani's article "Israel's Human Shields and Live Bait" in the Huffington Post, 8 October 2010. Sharmine Narwani is a Senior Associate, St. Antony's...

Reports in Haaretz say that the BBC's Top Gear team has been seen entering Israel from Jordan. "Viewers," said the newspaper's Daniel Schmil, "will be able to hear exactly...

Ever since Hamas came to power in 2006, calls have come from across the political spectrum stressing the necessity of engaging with the democratically elected Islamic movement. In the...

As the US mid-term elections draw tantalisingly closer the battle lines have been drawn. At the centre of them all is the Palestine issue. This is the message from...

By Jonathan Cook In all likelihood, I will be one of the very first non-Jews expected to swear loyalty to Israel as an ideology rather than as a state....

By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), Tufts University, October 15, 2010 As an American, I look at the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East and...

The BBC is often accused of bias when it comes to the way it reports on the Middle East conflict; Zionists say that it is anti-Israel, while pro-Palestinians say...

Hours after a meeting between the Israel Defence Forces' Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, and his Palestinian interlocutors in Bethlehem, Israeli settlers have set fire to the Ambiya Mosque...

By Paul R. Pillar Lately one hasn't heard much of the screaming against the observation that supporters of a certain Middle Eastern state exercise influence over U.S. policy that...

On Sunday 26 September, the Middle East Monitor (MEMO) held a joint fringe event with the Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) at the Labour Party...

By Philip Weiss Complete cave: The Palestinian Authority today acted in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to freeze the Goldstone Report, preventing it from going to the...

A senior member of the Hamas political bureau said on Saturday that his movement is likely to take part in the proposed Palestinian presidential election. Speaking to journalists in...

Statements from its finance ministry have revealed that spending on security agencies consumed 27 per cent, equal to $255 million, of the Palestinian Authority's total spending during the first...

The 12th European Palestinians Conference kicked off today under the title "Palestine unites us, and we will meet in Al-Quds." The conference is organized by its general secretariat and...

American Vice President Joe Biden has criticised his country for putting pressure on Israel. He opposes Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, 1985 recordings have revealed. The recordings purportedly belonged...

American expert of Middle Eastern issues at Wilson Research Centre, Aron Miller, has said that Israel is not ready to grant the minimum demands of Palestinians in any peace...

Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk has said that his movement is willing to cooperate with all Palestinian factions to form a technocrat government. He noted that this government...

Hundreds of Hamas and Fatah supporters took to the streets in Hebron on Friday to show their support for Palestinian administrative prisoners in Israeli jails who have been on...

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman repeated his refusal to grant Palestinian refugees Lebanese citizenship as part of any agreement between Palestinians and Israeli. Speaking during a diplomatic conference held in...

Israeli police yesterday rejected the US State Department's annual global terrorism report which named Jewish extremists' attacks against Palestinians as terrorist acts saying such incidents cannot be compared with...

The Palestinian technocrat government will work to unify state institutions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank but the security services in both areas will stay in place...