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, […]
There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian Assange to the US, where he faced being locked away for the rest of his […]
The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, is a welcome […]
The assault on free speech within Britain’s Labour Party speaks like a ghost from my past. I was banned from public speaking in apartheid South Africa almost sixty years ago. My crime aged 23, was […]
Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not […]
A Palestinian court yesterday held the first session to review a lawsuit filed against the British government over its crimes in Palestine during the British Mandate between 1917- 1948 and the Balfour Declaration which promised […]
Analysts are still grappling with the fallout from the US election. Trumpism proved a far more enduring and alluring phenomenon than most media pundits expected. Defying predictions, Trump improved his share of the overall vote […]
I recently published for the Middle East Eye website a detailed analysis of last week’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the question of whether the UK Labour party had an especial antisemitism […]
The UK has announced an additional $20.7 million in funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), bringing the total UK support for the agency this year to $66 million. […]
Factories belonging to Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit System, woke up this morning to groups of protesters demanding their closure. Protests led by the direct action campaign group Palestine Action were organized to coincide with […]
On October 29, the leader of the main opposition, Labor party in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn, was dismissed from the Party which he had been a member all his adult life. The apparent issue was […]
The National Party for Independents (NPI), the International Commission to Support the Palestinian Rights (ICSPR), and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) today initiated a lawsuit against the British Government for its responsibility for the suffering […]
(Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 2: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the path to Global War) This is a history blog… Unlike any history you have been taught. The blog […]
This reading of history is substantially but not wholly based on Elizabeth Monroe’s book Philby of Arabia (London: Quartet Books, 1973). With the exception of Kim Philby’s references to his wife, his father, and his […]
Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support […]
Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and extradition to the […]
An open letter signed by over 20 prominent British Palestinians, including academics, journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, musicians and lawyers, expressed concern over the shrinking space in the Labour Party to discuss the Palestinian struggle. They voiced […]
Britain’s largest trade union, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), has passed a motion identifying Israel as a state practicing apartheid and called for the continued support of the Palestinian people. TUC, which has nearly six […]
Four members of Palestine Action activists were arrested on Saturday at the mass protest to shut down Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, at their London office. They were released on Sunday, pending investigation. During […]
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