4+ day, 22+ min ago   (887+ words) How will the government of Israel react to the election success of the far-right AfD party in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, called “a nightmare” by Jewish leaders? Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, quoted in the Ha’aretz article below,…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (264+ words) A fascinating if at times opaque account of political manoeuvring among Arab parties and on the left in the forthcoming Israeli elections. In 2020 Arab parties running as the Joint List won 15 seats in the Israeli Knesset. It has fragmented since…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (204+ words) In September 2023, in relation to warnings about a major forthcoming attack the ruler of the UAE said “he tried to convey to Netanyahu that “something there is about to explode,” …(but) the Israeli prime minister believed the volatile area was,…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (162+ words) Much more needs to be done and we welcome the Foreign Secretary’s acknowledgement that campaigning by people of all backgrounds, nationally and internationally, and young people in particular, has a positive role to play. Demonstrations against what the government has…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (216+ words) Peter Oborne and Imran Mulla writing in Middle East Eye praise Ed Miliband for his move to place UK sanctions on Israeli settlement goods and services, calling him “the first British foreign secretary to stand up against US power and…...

1+ week, 38+ min ago   (230+ words) A left wing, kibbutz-style settlement in the Jordan Valley is being considered by HaMachanot HaOlim, a youth movement that calls itself “socialist-Zionist” (!). The argument they put forward is that “since new illegal settlements will likely be built in the West…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (234+ words) The appalling situation in Qusra where Israeli settlers had cut off all services for Palestinians and blocked them from going shopping or supplies being brought to them. This caught the attention of the western media, perhaps because the owner of…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (320+ words) Technically the Israeli army has full control over that part of the West Bank where settlements are built but “…the police already operate in the West Bank in cases involving criminal offenses and public disturbances by Israelis”. Historically “the police…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (259+ words) Genocide scholar Martin Shaw pulls no punches in his call in Tribune for Andy Burnham to break the UK’s ties to Israel. ‘We got Gaza wrong’, said Burnham. But what did we get wrong? The fact that we upset some…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (141+ words) The settler attacks in Qusra seem to have caused even some politicians to wake up to the reality of settler violence in the West Bank. US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee he named these settlers as “terrorists” and their actions…...