Thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gathered in London on Saturday calling on the Group of Seven (G7) leaders to support Palestinian rights. The protest formed part of the “Resist G7 Day of Action for International Justice” […]
UK Labor leader Keir Starmer has urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to press for the recognition of a Palestinian state at this weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. During Prime Minister’s Questions today, Starmer used […]
The Belfast City Council in Northern Ireland has passed a motion demanding the expulsion of Israeli ambassadors from both Ireland and the United Kingdom. The motion urges the governments in Dublin and London to expel […]
British Labour Party MP Richard Burgon asked the House of Commons yesterday how many more Palestinian civilian casualties it will take before the government takes action to stop Israeli war crimes. “How many Palestinian children […]
No one should be surprised that Britain’s right-wing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel’s pummeling of Gaza, with nearly 200 Palestinians reported to have been killed by airstrikes and […]
In another show of global solidarity, pro-Palestinian activists in the UK took their protest of Israel’s war on Gaza to the roof of a factory owned by an Israeli arms manufacturer. UAV Tactical Systems manufactures […]
In a remarkable admission, The Guardian has ranked its support for the Balfour Declaration promising a “homeland” for the Jewish people as one of its “worst errors of judgment over 200 years.” The British newspaper […]
Britain’s corporate media are suddenly awash with stories wondering whether, or to what extent, the UK’s prime minister is dishonest. Predictably in the midst of this, the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg is still doing her determined […]
Labour leader Kier Starmer has come under sharp criticism for withdrawing from a virtual Ramadan interfaith event after a pro-Israel lobby group alerted him to the organizer’s support for the boycott of Israeli dates produced […]
United Kingdom charities yesterday condemned statements by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on International Criminal Court’s (ICC) investigation into Israeli war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory. In a letter to the Conservative Friends […]
Former UK Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan has accused pro-Israel lobbyists of “the most disgusting interference” in British politics, and of “negatively influencing” the country’s foreign policy in the Middle East. Duncan, a former […]
A British children’s charity is accepting money made from human rights violations in Palestine, campaigners affiliated with the UK branch of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD UK), claim. The National Society for the […]
Boris Johnson’s March 16 speech before the British Parliament was reminiscent, at least in tone, to that of Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of China, in […]
I’m seated in the police Zoom briefing with other council representatives for my small seaside town in England. Our Chief Inspector is telling us about the crisis we have with soaring heroin addiction in the […]
Welcome to the age of fear. Nothing is more corrosive of the democratic impulse than fear. Left unaddressed, it festers, eating away at our confidence and empathy. We are now firmly in a time of […]
(The Lion and the Eagle – The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783-1972. Kathleen Burk. Bloomsbury, London/New York, 2018) The 200-year historical span of Kathleen Burk’s “The Lion and the Eagle” shows the […]
(Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. Barbara Tuchmann. NYU Press, 1956; Preface, 1984; Random House, 2014) Part of history is reading historical documents, and it is in this […]
Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet again, not just […]
Six pro-Palestine activists have been charged with causing criminal damage after staging a protest at an Israeli-owned arms factory in southeastern England. The protesters smashed windows and splashed red paint on the walls of the […]
It is probably not a good idea to write while in the grip of anger. But I am struggling to suppress my emotions about a wasted year, during which politicians and many doctors have ignored […]
University of Birmingham experts are developing a novel solar energy pilot plant that will help to provide clean and affordable electricity to people living in the Gaza Strip. Working with counterparts at the Islamic University […]
British Consul General in Occupied Jerusalem Philip Hall has condemned Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as “illegal and an obstacle to restarting peace talks.” In remarks to Palestinian Satellite Channel this morning, Hall […]
The revelation that a leftwing journalist, Nathan J Robinson, has been sacked as a Guardian US columnist for criticizing Israel on Twitter – and that he was pressured to keep quiet about it by Guardian […]
University College London’s Academic Board has today voted in favor of urging the university council to retract its adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism as it “is not for purpose within a university setting […]
A British woman serving in the Israeli occupation forces has been identified by the Jerusalem Post as the killer of the Palestinian boy Attallah Mohammad Harb Rayyan. The 17-year-old teenager from Qawarat Bani Hassan, a […]
The instinct among parts of the left to cheerlead the right’s war crimes, so long as they are dressed up as liberal “humanitarianism”, is alive and kicking, as Owen Jones revealed in a column last […]
The British Foreign Secretary has criticized Israel’s decision to construct thousands of new settler housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, warning that it puts a viable two-state solution at risk. “The UK […]
I salute Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace & Justice initiative which could not be more timely, and I am proud to be part of it. We live in troubled times: the raging pandemic, rise of neo-fascist forces; […]
British-Palestinian Zaher Birawi has agreed to accept a settlement after the World-Check site wrongly listed him on its terrorism categorization. Refinitiv Ltd, which owns World-Check – which describes itself as a database of Politically Exposed […]
There was a fascinating online panel discussion on Wednesday night on the Julian Assange case that I recommend everyone watch. The video is at the bottom of the page. But from all the outstanding contributions, […]
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