4+ day, 9+ 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, 15+ 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,…...

1+ week, 7+ hour 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (188+ words) Martin Shaw writes that: “An Open Letter to Iranian political prisoners by a group of mainly US-based intellectuals—including Angela Davis, Rashid Khalidi and Judith Butler—has provoked widespread criticism, even denunciation.” At stake is what solidarity is all about…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (91+ words) Ben Gvir regarded this “as a victory for Palestinian detainees”. (for more information see Ben-Gvir Turns Palestinian Prison Abuse into Election Campaign) This article was originally published by Palestine Chronicle on Wed 12 Aug 2026. Read the original here. JavaScript is required…...

3+ week, 9+ 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   (137+ words) More than 100 British and French ex Ambassadors have joined together to ask President Macron and Prime Minister Burnham to take action together on Palestine/Israel. A letter to this effect was published in Le Monde today and sent, as an…...

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, 2+ day ago   (1515+ words) The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the killing. It is 933 days since the event, 933 days since…...