Opinion

By: Yossi Mekelberg In her annual report to the UN Human Rights Council that was released last week, High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet devoted a short passage to the abuses of Palestinian human rights in the territories occupied by Israel. Despite its conciseness, it was damning, which should …

By: Ramzy Baroud Israel’s war on Palestinian sports is as old as the Israeli state itself. For Palestinians, sport is a critical aspect of their popular culture, and since Palestinian culture itself is a target for the ongoing Israeli attack on Palestinian life in all of its manifestations, sports and …

By: PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL The Ukraine-Russia conflict has laid bare international hypocrisy to anyone who dares look. Among many such hypocritical actions, I have chosen the following examples. First is the UN’s hypocrisy. In 2003, the US invaded Iraq without UN authorization. There was no Security Council condemnation because of …

By: Mohammad Omari The slogan “sports has nothing to do with politics”, was, as a rule, always applied in international sports. Throughout history, a player or a team that used a match or a sporting event to express a political opinion was subjected to punishment. But that completely disappeared with …

By: Rami Samara Western leaders have been busy over the last ten days showering social media and media outlets with hi-flying rhetoric condemning Russia and holding it responsible for starting a military aggression against Ukraine that would push the entire world into the unknown. While many countries began to ready …

By: Ilan Pappe The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021. A few days before that, the Ukrainian …

Later this week Parliament will debate formally recognising the state of Palestine. Now, with the sea change in international opinion, is the time to finally do so — and end all arms sales to Israel, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP IT HAS never been more important for the British government to …

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and supporting community members at the University of Connecticut organized a demonstration in protest of UConn’s relationship with the state of Israel outside of the Rowe Center for Undergraduate Education on Monday. The protest was organized in the wake of newly hired interim president …

By: Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark. On May 26, Benny Dagan, the Israeli ambassador to Denmark, wrote a column in Berlingske, which can best be described as a smear campaign against Politiken and a direct attack on the free media, which performs its role by describing …

By: Mairav Zonszein Mairav Zonszein is a senior analyst on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. When Israel’s new president, Isaac Herzog, marked the first night of Hannukah in December by lighting candles in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, where some 850 Israeli settlers live under military protection …