Opinion

What happened that caused the Israeli apparatus of control to once again make use of their license to abuse mixed couples? By: Amira Hass File photo: Palestinian women at the Qalandia checkpoint, West Bank. Abbas Momani / AFP Israel makes it increasingly difficult for Palestinians’ foreign spouses to stay in …

#Balfour After Palestinian anti-Balfour posters were banned from London’s transport network in accordance with TFL rules, an honest debate on the Palestinian question is needed more than ever By: Chris Doyle Just over two weeks from the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on 2 November, all parties are readying …

Following Abbas’ warning of a nearing one-state reality, Netanyahu says there will be no more uprooting of settlements. Supporters of the two-state solution, this is our wake-up call Advocates of a two-state solution – in other words, a majority in Israel and throughout the world, or nearly so – cannot …

Lawmakers from across the spectrum should come together to put an immediate stop to Israel’s weapons sales to Myanmar, where crimes against humanity are being committed Despite the UN stating that Myanmar’s army is carrying out “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority, Israel refuses to …

(By David Cronin) The European Union has admitted that it cannot monitor whether producers working from Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are fraudulently taking advantage of trade privileges. Since 2000, the EU has allowed most Israeli goods to enter its markets without incurring taxes or customs duties. Exports …

By: Yvonne Ridley The British writer explains how the Zionist influence on the UK Labour Party has gone under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. This has not been a good week for Israel, especially in Britain, where the Zionist lobbyists have spent millions in recent years oiling the cogs in …

By: Mazal Mualem Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu devoted the bulk of his 2015 speech at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York to warning of the risks inherent in the nuclear agreement signed three months earlier between Iran and six world powers. The speech was firm, its messages sharp. …

America routinely offers Israel impunity and rewards. Towards Palestine, it offers only threats. If this White House is serious about peace, it’s time to show it By: Hanan Ashrawi This Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the world from the chambers of United Nations General Assembly, an institution founded …

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza and despair in the West Bank in the face of massive settlement construction have left the Palestinian president with few options and his back against the wall By: Jack Khoury Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday was punctuated …

By: Jonathan Cook Israel has quietly revoked the citizenship of thousands of members of its large Palestinian minority in recent years, highlighting that decades of demographic war against Palestinians are far from over. The policy, which only recently came to light, is being implemented by Israel’s population registry, a department …