Israel
Israel backs down from Al Aqsa clampdown
31 July 2017Mass protests last Friday forced Israeli forces to reopen the Al Aqsa mosque to all worshippers.
Israeli clamp down at Al Aqsa mosque marks new crackdown on Palestinians
18 July 2017Israel has launched a new crackdown on Palestinians in East Jerusalem, restricting Muslim access to the Al Aqsa mosque compound.
Pro-Palestine activists' legal win pressures Zionists - but Tory attacks continue
27 June 2017A court ruling slapped down Tory attempts to curb the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign last week—giving a boost to pro-Palestinian campaigners.
Israel’s power cuts push the Gaza Strip deeper into crisis
27 June 2017Gaza is a city ready to burst. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are suffering after Israel drastically cut their power supply last week.
Six days that entrenched imperialism
06 June 2017Fifty years ago Israel launched the Six Day War in a bid to shore up its relationship with the US and its murderous rule over Palestine, writes Nick Clark
Bullying and posturing fail to stifle the resistance as Palestinian hunger strike ends
30 May 2017Palestinians in Israeli prisons declared victory last Saturday after ending a 40-day mass hunger strike.
Will Hamas repeat Fatah’s mistakes by ceding ground to Israel?
16 May 2017Nearly 50 years since Israel occupied Palestine’s West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, Palestinian leaders seem further away than ever from getting Israel to leave.
Thousands of Palestinians join general strike in solidarity with prisoners
02 May 2017Clashes erupted across the West Bank last Friday as Palestinians held a “day of rage” in solidarity with hunger-striking prisoners.
Hundreds protest against Israeli ambassador Mark Regev at Soas
02 May 2017Hundreds of students and their supporters protested outside the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) yesterday evening, Thursday, as Israeli ambassador Mark Regev spoke inside.
Palestinian hunger strike in Israeli prisons
18 April 2017Between 1,600 and 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on Monday.
Protests in Gaza after Palestinian Authority slashes public sector workers’ wages
11 April 2017Thousands of Palestinian public sector workers have taken to the streets in Gaza in protest against a pay cut.
UN's Rima Khalaf forced to resign after criticising Israeli 'apartheid'
21 March 2017Head of a United Nations (UN) agency Rima Khalaf has been forced to resign after publishing a report calling Israel an apartheid state.
University bans Palestine meeting from campus after pressure from pro-Israeli group
22 February 2017A university has cancelled a meeting hosted by a Friends of Palestine student society after lobbying from a pro-Israeli organisation.
Trump’s turnaround can’t solve US imperialism’s Palestine problem
16 February 2017On the surface of it, Donald Trump seemed to make a huge shift in the US imperialist policy in the Middle East yesterday, Wednesday.
Spooky schemes and Israel
10 January 2017Israeli ambassador Mark Regev (Pic: International Maritime Organisation)
Chopper close shave shows why offshore workers' fight for safety is needed
10 January 2017A helicopter shuttling workers between the Elgin and West Franklin platforms ran into difficulties resulting in the chopper coming inches away from falling into the sea, an offshore worker writes
The US and Israel split over how to keep up the racist occupation
03 January 2017The fake two-state solution used to co-opt Palestinian organisations is wearing thin, argues Nick Clark
Workers across public sector in Greece walk out against Syriza government's austerity
29 November 2016Public sector workers struck across Greece against austerity measures on Thursday of last week.
How the Suez crisis sank an empire
25 October 2016Britain invaded Egypt sixty years ago—a brutal response to the resistance against its decaying empire. The result was humiliation. Historian John Newsinger tells the story
Shimon Peres—war criminal and confidence trickster
30 September 2016Shimon Peres was a war criminal that is lauded as a peacemaker.
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