Category Archives: News

As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded. By Basel Adra 30 Jan 2026 Originally published … Continue reading →

A Joint statement by the foreign ministers of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom on demolitions by the Israeli authorities of the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem. From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development … Continue reading →

For two years officials in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute has released estimates that make such denial impossible – and echo the patterns of past genocides By Hanno Hauenstein 2 Dec 2025 A … Continue reading →

Beware the language of ceasefire and peace, writes MANDY TURNER. When Israel and its Western allies call for ‘ceasefire’ they mean not of Israeli bombs but of Palestinian demands for self-determination, dignity and freedom. In recent weeks, the phrase “give … Continue reading →

Audio report from Sami Abu Salem 22 Nov 2025 Mike Joseph introduces Sami’s report Sami’s report from Gaza on day 44 reveals a ceasefire in name only. On this day alone, Saturday 22 Nov 2025, he has already noted 21 … Continue reading →

The Security Council’s backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians and rewards those responsible for genocide By Craig Mokhiber 19 Nov 2025 (This article is taken from the Mondoweiss website) More than two years … Continue reading →

Two Palestinians look with trepidation to the medium- and short-term future. First, Muhammad Shehada explains that, after this first phase, Israel will hold onto a fully depopulated 58 per cent of Gaza including almost all its agricultural land and, even … Continue reading →

British policy towards Palestine reveals a persistent pro-Israeli bias, from Lord Balfour to Theresa May—and on both sides of the Houses of Parliament By Avi Shlaim 19 Jan 2017 Tony Blair was the most ardent supporter of Israel, with the … Continue reading →

We are honoured to welcome William Dalrymple as a Patron of the Britain Palestine Project. Dalrymple is an internationally acclaimed historian and award-winning author whose works include White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, and The Anarchy. His … Continue reading →

By David Hearst Editor in Chief, Middle East Eye 1 Oct 2025 Regional leaders have responded to the bravery and steadfastness that Gaza’s Palestinians have shown with fear, cowardice and self-interest. Arab and Muslim leaders have betrayed the Palestinian cause … Continue reading →

By Nadav Tamir Executive Director of J Street From The Times of Israel 4 Oct 2025 Former Israeli Defence Minister and current opposition leader Benny Gantz, in his New York Times op-ed, What the World Gets Wrong About Israel, exposes … Continue reading →

By Bob Bowker Reprinted from the Age, Melbourne, Vic 28 Sept 2025 If a pathway to translating Palestine into reality remains elusive, and the wounds of today are not healed, a grim future awaits—not only for Palestinians, Israel and Israelis, … Continue reading →

By Leila Sansour 23 Sept 2025 This article was written for the London Review of Books blog Few leaders have turned fear into political currency as relentlessly as Benjamin Netanyahu. For decades, he has convinced Israelis – and many people … Continue reading →

The World This Weekend: Rashid Khalidi & Robert Malley on BBC Radio 4 On The World This Weekend (BBC Radio 4, Sunday 21 Sept), host Jonny Dymond spoke with two leading voices on the Middle East. Robert Malley, American lawyer … Continue reading →

As a key deadline approaches in the United Nations General Assembly, a little-used UN mechanism, immune from the US veto, could bring military protection to the Palestinian people – if we demand it. By Craig Mokhiber 27 Aug, 2025 After … Continue reading →

The International Crisis Group examines Israel’s continuing campaign of death and destruction in Gaza, the US Administration’s failure to restrain or stop Israel, the ambivalent and possibly destructive US policies towards the Palestinians, and urges the European and Arab nations … Continue reading →

By Mike Joseph 4 November 2025 – After that we can rebuild everything  Since before 7 October 2023, Gaza journalist Sami Abu Salem has reported and shared his world with us – his work, his family life and his dreams. … Continue reading →

The criminal, felonious, unforgivable project of Gaza’s destruction is an all-Israeli project. It could not have happened without the cooperation – whether through active contribution or silence – of all parts of Jewish Israeli society. By Michael Sfard 31 Aug, … Continue reading →

He tried to keep Gaza’s Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He was seized outside the hospital by the Israeli army and  has been imprisoned ever since By Amel Guettatfi Drop Site News 12 Sept 2025 In the early … Continue reading →

By Haroon Siddique and Pippa Crerar, in The Guardian 7 Sep 2025 Petition, drafted by human rights lawyers, says war crimes were committed during British occupation of Palestine A group of Palestinians will serve a legal petition asking the UK … Continue reading →

Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters. By Yuval Abraham 14 Aug 2025 Reprinted from Israel-based … Continue reading →

On the morning of Monday 28 July 2025, a bulldozer from Eyal Hari Yehuda, Yinon Levi’s construction company, was working the land east of the village of Umm al-Kheir which is categorised as state land. The villagers were concerned that … Continue reading →

By Michael Sfard 30 July 2025 I want to say something about the West Bank. Not about starvation, not about torture, not about annihilation. About simple, personal, small (relatively) evil. I have been a lawyer for 26 years. I’ve been … Continue reading →

By David Shulman 25 June 2025 Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic institutions, its social solidarity and above all the rule of law. For many … Continue reading →

Human Rights Council, 59th session 16 June–11 July 2025 The human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories ‘From the economy of occupation to the economy of genocide’ Report of the Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, on the situation … Continue reading →

By Menachem Klein 30 June, 2025 Israel’s security doctrine rests on three conceptual foundations. The first is a defensive military strategy designed to deliver a decisive victory upon the presumed failure of deterrence. Prior to the 1967 war, this was … Continue reading →

By Mike Hadfield Co-op News Digital Editor 24 June 2025 The Co-op Group has today announced it will stop sourcing relationships with countries where there are “internationally recognised community-wide human rights abuses and violations of international law”. This policy, approved by … Continue reading →

Statement by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 18-24 June 2025. “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” – Amos 5:24 (NRSV) The Central Committee … Continue reading →

Published on 10 June 2025 By Martin Griffiths, Honorary Associate, and Philip Proudfoot, Research Fellow, at the Institute of Development Studies On 30 May 2025, IDS Honorary Associate and former United Nations Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths described the situation in … Continue reading →

President Emmanuel Macron, France Prime Minister Keir Starmer, UK Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada 6 June 2025 Dear President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer We urge you to recognise the State of Palestine now as an essential, … Continue reading →

Posted 13 June 2025 by Joseph Finlay reprinted from Torat Albion 21 May 2025 I think we need to first understand that anti-Zionism can mean multiple things. Jewish anti-Zionists have been motivated by Orthodox Judaism, Progressive Judaism, Communism, British patriotism, … Continue reading →