Israel/ Palestine
Building a revolution in Jerusalem?
Tom Anderson and Eliza Egret talk to Sahar Vardi from Imbala collective, who have set up a grassroots organising space in the heart of West Jerusalem.
Whilst Israel and the US celebrate illegally moving the embassy to Jerusalem, unarmed Palestinians are being shot down
The move is a stamp of approval for Israel’s brutal occupation, writes Asad Rehman.
We must resist attempts to silence the left on Palestine
Some people falsely smear all critiques of Israel as antisemitic, writes Paul Keleman. We cannot let this bad-faith manoeuvring hinder our pursuit of justice for the Palestinian people.
Areas of Terror
The Israeli government categorises protesters as terrorists to create a mandate for violence, writes Richard Seymour,
Jewdas, Corbyn and the policing of Jewishness
Stop accusing Jewish people of treachery when they criticise Israel, writes Eleanor Penny
A very modern apartheid
Marienna Pope-Weidemann explains why decades of occupation and oppression have led some people to call Israel an apartheid state.
Prosecuting Ahed Tamimi shows the depth of Israeli paranoia
How can the heavily-armed Israeli state claim to be victimised by one teenage activist? By Richard Seymour.
The beautiful game under siege: women’s football in the West Bank
'We wanted to use a shared love of the beautiful game to stand in solidarity with those living under occupation', writes Kate Hadley.
The UK has been supporting Israeli war crimes for years.
Priti Patel's shady deals are business as usual. Enough is enough, writes Eleanor Penny
#Balfour100: 100 years of British complicity in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians
One hundred years ago, the Balfour Declaration laid the groundwork for Israel's takeover of Palestine. We must face up to our responsibility, writes Ryvka Barnard.
Does Israel have a ‘right to self-defence’ against Gaza?
Israel claims to be acting in self-defence when its army shoots down Gazan protesters. Norman G. Finkelstein and Jamie Stern-Weiner debunk that myth.
Empire en vogue
Nadine El-Enany examines the imperial pretensions of Britain's post-Brexit foreign affairs and trade strategy
Increasing anti-semitism or disappearing Palestine?
The left’s Jewish problem, Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and anti-semitism by Dave Rich, reviewed by Paul Kelemen
Resist Tory attacks on local councils
Campaigns Against Arms Trade highlight how new Tory policy could prohibit local Councils from implementing democratically voted upon motions in support of the BDS movement
Gaza stripped: resistance or suffocation
Vijay Prashad on the latest Gaza war and Israel’s suffocation of nonviolent resistance Gaza
Gaza: a history
Daniel Whittall speaks with former diplomant and historian Jean-Pierre Filiu about his new book on Gaza, and the history and future of the region
From the archives: Singling out Israel
Its supporters constantly laud Israel as the 'only democratic country in the Middle East' with the 'most moral army in the world'. Why single it out for criticism? They ask. Richard Kuper explains the reasons (from issue 137 January 2006)
We can’t just tweet in the face of genocide
Ewa Jasiewicz, activist with London Palestine Action, explains how you can join the growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel's massacre and occupation
Resisting the UK’s political and military support for Israel
Andrew Smith, from Campaigns Against Arms Trade, explains how the UK are arming Israel
An overwhelming show of solidarity and support for the people of Gaza
Kitty Webster reports back from the National Demonstration for Gaza held in London on Saturday 19 July 2014
Israel’s ‘infiltrators’ rise up
Kitty Webster reports on the wave of protests by African refugees and asylum seekers in Israel
Conscience little stirred
It took many decades and much bitter argument before the British left embraced the Palestinian cause, writes Mike Marqusee
Jeremy Hardy thinks… about the right to exist
'We’d all say a person has a right to a home, but we wouldn’t say their home has rights.'
Gaza War: All about politics?
Abby Martin interviews Phyllis Bennis, Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, about the current escalation of violence in Gaza
A tale of two speeches
Palestinian Chairman Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu address the United Nations. Phyllis Bennis reports from New York
More Bad News from Israel: how the media tell it like it isn’t
More Bad News from Israel, by Greg Philo and Mike Berry, reviewed by Miri Weingarten
Jeremy Hardy thinks… about unhelpful stereotypes
'Important issues are clouded by irrelevant prejudices'
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