Ben White

'A Just Peace for Palestine' wholeheartedly welcomes the successful adoption by the Methodist Church Conference of the 'Justice for Palestine and Israel' report. The working group is to be...

Israel has asked the British government to "lean on universities to prevent their participation in academic boycotts of the country", according to a report in The Times. In a...

Israel's approach to the Gaza Strip has never been static; it changes according to the government's priorities and short or long-term strategic goals. As early as 1991, Israel implemented...

As the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement, launched by Palestinian groups in 2005, has grown, some strategies and targets have attracted more controversy than others. The academic boycott campaign...

At the end of August, a civil suit brought by the family of Rachel Corrie came to an end with a Haifa judge ruling that the State of Israel...

On 26 February, Palestinians fired a rocket into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, the first such projectile attack since the ceasefire that brought an end to Israel's eight-day...

In March 2012, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) published unprecedentedly harsh concluding observations following Israel's periodic review. In what one expert called "the...

Today marks the 65th anniversary of the historic ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist movement, and the establishment of the State of Israel on the rubble of hundreds...

The right of return of Palestinian refugees is often presented as a stumbling block to peace, a 'final status issue' that will require a great and painful 'compromise'. But...

Imagine if the mayor of a major British city declared it official policy to keep the number of ethnic or religious minority residents as a proportion of the population...

With Israeli elections just around the corner, Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to retain his position at the head of a coalition government. Tzipi Livni, former foreign minister and...

The Palestinians' Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign is making headlines, thanks to pro-Israel advocates' attack on an event scheduled for tonight at Brooklyn College in New York. In a...

Discussion about a one state solution in Palestine/Israel is moving into the mainstream. As its advocates gain a platform for their views, defenders of ethnic separation are increasingly falling...

In recent weeks the UK government has once again shown itself to be entirely unwilling to hold Israeli war crimes suspects to account, to the extent that the Foreign...

Two weeks ago, Israel's outgoing ambassador to the US Michael Oren was interviewed by Fareed Zakaria on CNN. In the context of discussing renewed negotiations, Zakaria asked Oren about...

As students begin a new academic year, there are signs that pro-Israel propaganda initiatives at Britain's universities are being given a boost. The Union of Jewish Students (UJS) has...

Last week, in response to a long-running legal challenge, Israel's Supreme Court ruled in favour of the status quo whereby the country's population registry does not allow "Israeli" as...

In late September, retired senior U.S. military officials were part of a delegation that went to Egypt on a visit organized by Virginia-based think tank the Westminster Institute (WI),...

At the regular cabinet meeting on Sunday, Israeli PM Netanyahu repeated a demand that as part of any future agreement with the Palestinians, Israel would maintain a "security border"...

In December 2000, the first Herzliya Conference took place, a now annual event and regular fixture in the diaries of politicians, military officials and defense industry figures from Israel...

The tourists heading to Bethlehem this festive season will come from far and wide – but all of them will enjoy more freedom of movement than the city's residents...

At a recent conference on Palestine in Doha, organised by Azmi Bishara's Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, there was one thing that everyone agreed on: the Palestinian...

At the end of 2013 came a shocking update from Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus – at least 15 Palestinians had died of hunger since September. The grim news...

Earlier this month, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared in a high profile speech that "he would not support any peace agreement that does not include the exchange of...

On this year's Land Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present...