On Monday 14 June, Israel inaugurated Naftali Bennett as its new prime minister, bringing Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year rule to an end. Only 60 percent of the population who are subject to Israel’s (military and civilian) rule (including 1.5 million Palestinians) are entitled to vote in national elections, meaning that almost five million Palestinians are effectively...Read More

On June 5, Israeli police officers arrested Givara Budeiri, the veteran Al-Jazeera correspondent and Jerusalmite, when she was covering demonstrations in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The demonstrations also commemorated the 54th anniversary of Naksa day, which is when Israel occupied the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and...Read More

Yet another report has added further weight to the allegation that Israel continues to commit the crime of apartheid on both sides of the Green Line. This latest report has been published by the Negotiations Affairs Department (NAD) of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).Read More

“A vision that respects the national aspirations of both peoples, and guarantees equal rights to everyone living in the land.” Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer, argues that the apartheid framework is the only way to explain the contemporary situation in Israel and oPt. In the past, progressives clearly distinguished between its ‘internal’ (democratic)...Read More

On May 27, the UN Human Rights Council voted to establish a commission of inquiry that would report on human rights violations in Israel, the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. The establishment of the commission was both welcomed and criticised as it claimed it would, in common with previous commissions, fail to...Read More

“Attempts to discredit the court and obstruct its work cannot be tolerated if we are serious about promoting and upholding justice globally.” After the ICC announced it would investigate Israel’s alleged war crimes in the oPt, more than 50 former European prime ministers, foreign ministers and senior international officials called for attacks on the ICC...Read More

“The truth is that the Palestinian citizens of Israel and the Jewish majority of the country have never coexisted. We Palestinians living in Israel “sub-exist,” living under a system of discrimination and racism with laws that enshrine our second-class status and with policies that ensure we are never equals. This is not by accident but...Read More

On May 24, the occupation of an arms company factory by activists showed no sign of ending. Six days earlier, Palestine Action Group activists forced their way into Elbit’s company’s drone production facility, which is based in Leicester, in the UK, and brought production to an abrupt halt in what is now the longest action...Read More

“Palestinian families are being forcibly transferred from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem and their property appropriated by Jewish settlers with the full support and backing of the Israeli State, its judiciary and armed forces…. The international community has an obligation to uphold the law, and to protect refugees and displaced people, and communities...Read More