by Ian Black
It may not have been very surprising but it was nevertheless an unusually clear and unmissable signal. King Salman of Saudi Arabia has sent out a message about a highly sensitive issue: The Kingdom will not go along with Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ to resolve the Israel–Palestine conflict. It refuses to accept the US recognition […]
by Yash Karunakaran
During the March of Return demonstrations, 22 Palestinian civilians were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers near the fence that separates the Gaza Strip from Israel. While this may be me a far cry from the 2,200 people left dead during the 2014 50-day conflict, this latest bloodshed is different insofar as it involved the shooting of unarmed […]
by Ian Black
Lurid posters praising Donald Trump are still on display in Jerusalem – thanking the president for moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the city’s Talpiot neighbourhood. The building that used to be the American consulate is close to the old ‘green line’ border that separated Israel from the Jordanian West Bank until the 1967 war. […]
by Ben Reiff
Gaza’s Great March of Return has lasted for over six weeks.
Israel’s military response – resulting in around 40 Palestinian deaths and some 5,000 injuries – has drawn international censure, though Israel claims to be responding to imminent threats to its security orchestrated by Hamas.
Far from an aberration, the only thing novel about the current clashes is their design. Examining Israeli military […]
by Bashir Bashir and Rachel Busbridge
Bi-nationalism, as a prescriptive political project that would affirm equal rights to national self-determination for Palestinians and Israeli Jews, is rarely treated as a serious political alternative to the two and one-state solutions in Israel/Palestine. Given the constitutive settler colonial dimensions of the Zionist project, the idea that Palestinian rights to national self-determination in […]
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