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Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

Illustrations show protesters for democracy and human rights holding flags from Algeria, Lebanon, and Palestine

  • Two members of the Unite union holding a banner bearing the colours of the Palestinian flag an dreading 'in solidarity with Palestine London & Eastern region'

    The battle behind Unite’s belated action on Palestine

    Union members have won a long internal struggle for meaningful action against UK arm sales to Israel. Raymond Morell was one of them – and reports from behind the scenes

  • Displaced Gazans walking with their backs turned to the camera and carrying their possessions surrounded by rubble and destroyed buildings on either side of the road they are walking on

    Dispatches from Gaza: ceasefire cycles

    As talks of a ceasefire rise and fade from the headlines, Shaimaa Eid speaks to people living in Gaza City – documenting the meaning of ‘truce’ as felt on the ground

  • A group of Orthodox Jewish men at a protest, with Palestinian flags in the background, holding a placard reading 'Judaism condemns the State of "Israel" and its attrocities'.

    Key words: Zionism

    Richard Kuper examines what zionism is (and isn’t) and how it works as an explicitly settler colonial project

  • UK Foreign Secratary David Lammy (left) shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right)

    Breaking the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide

    As long as arms flows and military support continue despite public opposition, the UK remains an active partner in Israel’s genocide, writes Tim Bierley

  • How +972 fights for the truth

    Richard Kuper describes how +972 magazine provides a journalistically brilliant lone Palestinian-Israeli voice in a sea of hostile media

  • Thousands of protestors with Palestine flags march in front of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

    Nakba facing Palestine then and now

    Bernard Regan, historian of Britain’s long involvement in the repression of Palestine, documents the brutal history of Britain’s role in driving the Palestinians from their land

  • A huge crowd of people waving Syrian flags

    Syria’s turbulent transition

    Mazen Gharibah reports on the aftermath of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and how grassroots, civilian-led peacebuilding efforts are crucial to Syria’s future

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