Israel has been building settlements in the occupied West Bank for decades. But Britain’s new ban on the import of settlement goods comes in a response to a major escalation in construction over the past four years, which an International...
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News and analysis on Israeli settlements, the occupation and its legal status, and the human-rights dimensions of the brutal Palestine occupation.
The 18th summit of BRICS , a grouping with ten members including Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa, concluded in New Delhi with a leaders declaration — a clear success for an event that brought together a deeply...
Marco Carnelos – I watched the twin towers burn. Now the US is repeating its worst mistakes in Iran
Full ArticleTwenty-five years of invasions and unconditional support for Israel have deepened the grievances behind 9/11 and left America less secure Marco Carnelos is a former Italian diplomat. He has been assigned to Somalia, Australia and the United Nations. He served in...
Jonathan Cook – Britain’s settlement trade ban is cosmetic. For it to work, it must sanction Israel
Full ArticleThe UK may end up assisting Tel Aviv by reinforcing a preposterous distinction between ‘illegal’ Jewish settlements and a supposedly ‘law-abiding’ Israel Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn...
The 11th of September, 2026, marks a quarter-century since the “9/11” attacks that killed three thousand Americans and set into motion a generation of the “Global War on Terror”. The anniversary will no doubt bring with it the very human...
Britain's decision this week to ban all imports from illegal Israeli settlements carries huge moral resonance, but the real test comes next: Will the European Union (EU) – the single largest market in the world and Israel's biggest trading partner...
Just days before Ed Miliband announced trade sanctions on Israeli settlements, more than 300 British soldiers participated in a “landmark” training exercise facilitated by Israel’s largest arms firm. Elbit Systems UK boasted about its “key role” in the three-day training exercise...
U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, a staunch zionist, recently made waves when he referred to Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank as “terrorists.” “It’s an act of terror,” Huckabee said. “I’ve been criticized a little bit for calling...
Kathy Gannon – ‘Civilized’ Europe: EU Feeds Hungry Palestinians while Allowing Israel to Starve Them
Full ArticleIt is not civilized. It is barbaric . Kathy Gannon is the former AP News Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Four decades reporting the fault lines of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and the wider region. Cross-posted from the Whitbeck Blog Photo by ALEXANDRE LALLEMAND...
Sondos Asem – How Nicaragua defended its ICJ case accusing Germany of complicity in Israel’s genocide
Full ArticleManagua urged judges to reject German objections, highlighting Berlin’s own duties to prevent genocide and other grave violations against Palestinians Sondos Asem is a journalist and news editor at Middle East Eye in London. She is a specialist in international law,...
UN staff members at the SDG Action Zone outside UN Headquarters in New York, 2019. Credit: UN Photo/Laura Jarriel By Samuel King and Inés M. Pousadela BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sep 9 2026 (IPS) When the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable...
Do Andy Burnham’s sanctions on Israel go far enough?
Full ArticleAndy Burnham’s decision to impose trade sanctions with Israel’s illegal settlements stands in sharp contrast to this week last year when Keir Starmer welcomed Israel’s president to Downing Street. Speaking in parliament today, UK foreign secretary Ed Miliband also announced a...
The death of Palestinian artist Sliman Anis Mansour stirred powerful memories. He passed away at Al-Makassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem on August 24, at the age of 79, bringing to a close a legacy that cannot truly be described,...
The German Government, along with German universities, are sponsoring a project called MedWater which supports Zionist ethnic cleansing and land seizure in the West Bank. Cross-posted from Scheerpost Exploiting academic institutions as a cover, between 2017 – 2021 the German government surreptitiously...
A ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements is the absolute minimum the UK could do towards meeting its obligations to international law, but even that is far too much for the powerful Israel lobby. Ben Jamal is a British Palestinian...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (PNN) — As part of its “PNN Accountability” programme, PNN takes viewers to the town of Battir, west of Bethlehem, in an episode examining two issues affecting Palestinians from different perspectives. The first segment explores the relationship between Palestinians...
The War on Iran: Six Months of Epic Failure
Full ArticleThe following story is co-published with Joe Cirincione’s Substack. Aug. 28 marked the beginning of the seventh month of a war Donald Trump began on a whim, waged incoherently and lost decisively. But in the demented, steadily shrinking Trump World, he...
House to universities: Don't you dare boycott Israel
Full ArticleThe House passed legislation Thursday that would put federal funding at risk for universities that participate in certain boycotts of Israel, despite warnings from critics that the measure could chill political expression and effectively extend anti-boycott protections to Israeli settlements...
Israel is methodically emptying the West Bank countryside of hamlets and farms to spur Palestinians to either flee into exile or move into cities hemmed in by Israeli settlements ramshackle “outposts” and military bases. Western governments and the United Nations...
This coming Saturday 5 th September will see large marches for Palestine take place across Ireland to demand the cancellation of the Ireland v Israel football matches in the Nations League. Under the slogan of ‘ Stop the Games – Not...
The death of a British national, Bradley Townsend, killed in Ukraine in June while fighting for Russian forces has been widely reported in the media. “British traitor who joined Vladimir Putin’s army ‘killed by Ukraine drone'” splashed the Daily Star while...
Israeli settlers attacked an NBC News crew in the village of Jalud over the weekend, injuring the network’s correspondent, Matt Bradley, as well as two other crew members and Aida Ahmed Abdullah, the Palestinian woman they were interviewing. “They jumped out,...
Today, Tuesday 1st September, the date that the Central Bank of Ireland was due to renew the Israel Bond prospectus, either by approval or transfer, it appears that no EU state is now authorising the sale of Israel Bonds. This disruption...
Islam Times - In its media messaging regarding the northern front, the “Israeli” occupation forces [IOF] seek to portray themsleves as acting under the banner of humanitarianism, repeatedly promoting the narrative that their military aggression are focused solely on targets...
Protesting is terrorism. At least, that is the message that the Trump administration has communicated in a series of recent actions, culminating last week in its designation of the U.K.-based Palestine Action as a terrorist group. The Trump administration placed Palestine...
This monthly report is prepared for Sinocism by the excellent Sinification , an invaluable resource for understanding how domestic and international affairs are debated within the Chinese establishment. — Bill --- This month’s digest pulls in different directions—insofar as we can follow...
Dan Steinbock – The West Bank’s Ultra-Apartheid and the Collusive International Silence
Full ArticleJust like the Zionist Nazi genocide in Gaza, their ethnic cleansing of the West Bank is being ignored in the West Dan Steinbock is the author of The Obliteration Doctrine and The Fall of Israel . He is the founder of...
Jonathan Cook – The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents
Full ArticleThe UK isn’t a dispassionate arbiter of justice in prosecuting anti-genocide activists. It has been aggressively colluding in Israeli crimes. That huge conflict of interest is the elephant in the room Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...
Trump’s Alt-Right Pro-Israel Strategist Behind Palestine Action Ban is former British Intelligence
Full ArticleThe U.S.’ designation of U.K.-based activist collective Palestine Action as a global terrorist group is part of a wider project, concocted by far-right pro-Israel strategist Sebastian Gorka, to criminalize left-wing or pro-Palestine dissent against Trump’s rule. MintPress exposes this plan. The...
This article was originally published in Mondoweiss . On a large rock under the midday summer sun, Abdul Karim Hassan, 63, sat exhausted by fatigue and grief, staring toward his two sons’ houses on the hill of Ras al-Ain in the...
The Nordic-Baltic warmongering under the current conditions is therefore (i) irresponsible, (ii) hypocritical, (iii) immoral, and (iv) flirts with a disaster of immense proportions. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation:...
Robin Andersen, Chris Hedges – Documenting the U.S. Media’s Complicity in the Genocide of Gaza
Full ArticleIn Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges: Robin Anderson, the author of “The Complicit Lens,” documents how the Western...
Palestinian activist launches campaign to protect Christian presence and church property
Full ArticleBEIT JALA / West Bank / PNN / From the Wadi al-Makhrour valley near Beit Jala, Palestinian activist Alice Kisiya has launched an initiative she says aims to protect the Palestinian Christian presence and church property, while pushing for international recognition...
How feasible is Trump’s strategy? Is Iran in as desperate straits as Treasury Secretary Bessent suggests? Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic Culture Foundation The 60-day MoU has expired. The...
Chris Hedges – How the Media Sells Genocide
Full ArticleWestern media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where...
Reprinted with permission from Trita Parsi’s Substack. One of the important characteristics of Israel and Donald Trump’s war on Iran was that it never had the support of the American people. When George Bush launched his illegal invasion of Iraq,...
Millions have rightly turned to John Mearsheimer for compelling critique of US foreign policy, but it’s also important to recognise the limits of his ‘realist’ worldview. Gerald Sussman is professor emeritus of urban studies and international studies at Portland State University....
Media Roundup: Top Stories of Repression and Resistance Featuring Palestine Legal Clients and Attorneys
Full ArticleBelow is a roundup of the 2026’s top media coverage of stories of repression and resistance featuring Palestine Legal clients, attorneys, and attorney network members from outlets including The Guardian, The Hill, Inside Higher Ed, The Intercept, and Truthout. Inside Higher...
Dr. Adam Hamawy, Chris Hedges – Why This Former U.S. Army Physician is Running for Congress
Full ArticleDr. Adam Hamawy says that to move forward, the Democrats must embrace an anti-war, economically progressive agenda, and abandon the categories of left vs. right. Transcript Chris Hedges: There are a string of Democratic Party insurgents who defied party leadership to run on...
Hebron / PNN / Demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures continue in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, one of the areas most affected by demolition and displacement policies. The demolitions have targeted inhabited homes, residential tents, water wells and agricultural structures,...
The Israeli government is running advertisements on a popular podcast hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), raising questions about whether the staunchly pro-Israel lawmaker is indirectly receiving campaign funding from a foreign country. Radio and podcast giant iHeartMedia has syndicated Cruz’s...
Ramzy Baroud – No Coming Back from Genocide: Israel’s Global Counter-Offensive Has Begun
Full ArticleColombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books including: “These Chains Will Be...
We’re very excited and really proud to announce that Apartheid Free Zone campaign has recruited more than 500 small businesses, unions, civil society and community groups, artistic collectives, sporting organisations, and many other spaces and places across Ireland. They join thousands...
HRW: Israeli settler attacks in West Bank contributing to forced displacement of Palestinians
Full ArticleBethlehem /PNN / Human Rights Watch said escalating attacks by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank are increasingly driving the forced displacement of Palestinians, amid what it described as direct and indirect government support for the violence. In a statement, the...
Jelena Vidojević in conversation with Paul Stubbs Jelena Vidojević is a political scientist and co-founder of the New South Institute. She is also the editor of the ‘ Missing Voices: Critical Thinking in Times of Polycrisis’ series . Paul Stubbs is a...
A portrait of life under genocide. Hossam Shaker is a journalist and an author who has extensively covered the topic of migration in Europe. Cross-posted from Middl e East Eye Life under genocide has its familiar daily rituals. A discerning eye detects latent...
International Criminal Court Under Attack
Full ArticleA poster depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as wanted by the International Criminal Court is displayed in a corridor of the European Parliament in Brussels, June 2026. Credit: Frédéric Pétry/HansLucas via AFP By Andrew Firmin LONDON, Aug 17 2026 (IPS) In a...
On a scorching summer day, Israeli settlers gathered around a pool in the occupied West Bank that Palestinians say was created by diverting water from a spring that had long irrigated their crops. The spring near the village of Fasayil...
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