When is a town not a town?
The use of terms by international media outlets in their coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue has a crucial effect on how the world sees it.
15/03/2023
Perils and persecution – the fate of Palestinian peacemakers
It’s hard to talk about peace this week. It’s hard to talk about peace when days ago two small Jewish boys were deliberately run over
13/02/2023
Palestinian Apartheid, No Jews (or Christians) at a Bethlehem inn
On 10 October 2022, the Bethlehem Hotel, a 4-star luxury hotel in Manger Street in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Bethlehem was attacked by gunfire
13/10/2022
Arafat, Oslo and the Second Intifada
A comment on Shany Mor’s ‘War has Consequences: 20-year Scars of the Second Intifada’ (6 July 2022) Shany Mor’s recent article in State 0f Tel
13/07/2022
BDS supports the Zionist agenda, and other strange stories!
A major rift is appearing in the ranks of BDS supporters, with battle lines drawn over just how much antisemitism is acceptable in the BDS
11/07/2022
Israel battles two viruses
It started in the earliest days of the Covid pandemic. Scarcely had news spread in January 2020 of the arrival of the coronavirus from China
16/12/2021
The Refugees that the World Forgot
To say that they were well integrated with the indigenous people – as some have stated – is completely missing the point. When your ancestors
30/11/2021
On this day in 1947: UN votes to establish Jewish & Arab states in British Mandate Palestine
UN General Assembly votes to establish Jewish & Arab states in British Mandate Palestine, 29 November 1947 Ten years ago, the Arabic word Nakba (‘catastrophe’)
28/11/2021
So Many Things About the Israel-Palestine Conflict Make No Sense Until You Understand One Thing
Fair-minded observers of the Israel-Palestinian conflict are often left gaping at the tone of the statements emanating from the various forces that oppose Israel. The
15/11/2021
Introduction:The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (hereon: PFLP) is considered to be among the Palestinian opposition organisations, and strongly opposes the peace process
07/11/2021
Deputy Connolly’s concern with ‘Jewish supremacy’
Two days before the publication of David Collier’s report into antisemitism in Ireland, Deputy Catherine Connolly (an independent TD from the Galway West constituency) put
11/10/2021
Spurned Opportunities: 4 Decades of Palestinian Rejectionism
The quest for the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state and the attainment of a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians has been the
05/10/2021