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Chronicling the Mandatory Rape of Palestine – A Book Review
By Jeremy Salt (Blake Alcott, The Rape of Palestine. A Mandate Chronology. 2 vols., Tredition.com.) A monumental amount of work has gone into the preparation of these two volumes, 1437 pages, excluding annexes, not just […]
Masar Badil Founded in Madrid, Sao Paolo and Beirut
By Blake Alcott Masar Badil (Alternative Path) is a new movement – as yet a loose group of activists and activist groups rather than a membership organization – working for the liberation of all of […]
‘From the River to the Sea’: Really?
By Blake Alcott For almost 20 years the Cambridge branch of the UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has run a stall every Saturday on Market Square to distribute information about Palestine, sell olive oil, spices, […]
Palestine Chronicle Needs Your Support
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Dear Friends and Readers, Over the years, The Palestine Chronicle has emerged as one of the most trusted, articulate and consistent voices on Palestine and Palestinian rights. Despite our limited […]
With Friends Like These…
By Blake Alcott It’s nice that a group of 127 British politicians has discovered the as-yet unused tool for pressuring Israel: sanctions, the ‘S’ in Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). They wrote a letter to […]
US versus BDS
By Blake Alcott The US House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 23, “resolved” by a vote of 398-17 that it “opposes the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) targeting Israel.” As the Palestine Chronicle […]
What is ‘the Palestinian Cause’?
By Blake Alcott At a recent Palestine conference in Istanbul, many speakers talked of ‘the Palestinian cause’. Many also spoke of ‘solidarity’ with the Palestinians. What do these words mean? Although I’ve been active in […]
What Does Israel ‘Occupy’?
By Blake Alcott In what is written and said about Israel and Palestine the word ‘occupation’ is ubiquitous. But what territory, exactly, is the ethnocratic state occupying? Is it just the Gaza Strip and the […]
Corbyn and Palestine: Hold Your Applause
By Blake Alcott For some reason, Jeremy Corbyn and the British Labour Party he leads are sticking to the two-state solution at a time when more and more pro-Palestinians are abandoning it. Is it possible […]
UK PSC Conference: As Gazans Have Said, Return is the Key
By Blake Alcott The UK Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) held an all-day Right of Return Conference on Sunday, May 20 in London, attended by about 150 people. The event resulted from a motion at PSC’s […]
One Democratic State: What’s Happening?
By Blake Alcott One Democratic State (ODS) has the wind at its back. The last two years have seen a flurry of organizing for ODS, increasingly since December 2017 when the US/Israel axis rejected the […]
The Antisemitism Fallacy; Let’s Focus on Palestinians
By Blake Alcott Speaking to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on July 16, 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron repeated the popular formula that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic. According to Macron, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel expressions are “a new […]
Shifting the Narrative
By Blake Alcott Two Springs in a row the Israel lobby prevailed upon the University of Southampton to forbid an academic conference looking at whether Israel is a legitimate state. The trumped-up grounds had been […]
Improvement at PSC, but Two-States Idea is Not Palestinian
By Blake Alcott Fortunately the UK’s large Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) seems to be expanding its range of interest. Formerly focusing its attention and actions disproportionately on the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, […]
What Does PSC Want?
By Blake Alcott PSC (the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK) is the perfect go-to place for newcomers, like myself seven years ago, who decide to do something for justice for Palestinians. PSC Fact-sheets on fourteen basic […]
UK Activists’ Clarion Call to Civil Societies around the World: ‘Expel Israel from the UN’
By Stuart Littlewood At least some people are determined to kick off the New Year on a positive note. A motion to expel Israel from the United Nations is to be put to the Palestine […]
Shadings of Zionism
By Blake Alcott Last year liberal Zionists launched efforts to get international recognition for a tiny state called Palestine. The US-brokered peace talks that terminated in mid-2014 were the last of many attempts to get […]
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