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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

  • Arming the occupation

    Arms sales by and to Israel sustains the oppression of Palestinian people. Sam Perlo-Freeman reports on the scale of the trade – and UK involvement in it

  • Police officers stand in front of a building occupied by activists from Palestine Action, some of whom are on the building's roof

    How Elbit was shut down

    Blyth Brentnall describes how a group of activists in the UK has managed to disrupt the activities of one of Israel’s biggest arms suppliers

  • Rally at Sheffield Hallam University in response to the university's suspension of Shahd, featuring placards with slogans including 'Apartheid off campus' and the Palestine flag

    ‘I feel trapped in violence that extends from Palestine to the UK’

    Pádraig Ó Meiscill speaks to Shahd Abusalama about the enforced separation of her family, defeating smear campaigns and the cruelty of the Home Office

  • Photo of Diane Langford wearing a Keffiyeh

    Struggle, spies and ’68

    Diane Langford recalls some of her most memorable experiences of feminist organising, union activism and solidarity campaigning

  • Protestors holding up pro-Palestinian signs calling for a boycott of Israeli goods

    The future of boycotts after Ukraine

    Calls for state and civil action against Russia are an important shift in Western political discourse, writes Ben Jamal

  • Black and white photo of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser waiving to a crowd in Mansoura, 1960

    Egypt at 100 Years of Independence

    Heba Taha explores the drastic political transformations of the Egyptian state 100 years since independence

  • A mural of Nelson Mandela painted on the West Bank border wall alongside a quote of his

    Israeli apartheid: an international consensus

    Director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Ben Jamal explains the impact of Amnesty International naming Israel’s apartheid crimes