17 February 2026 UN Watch, an innocent sounding organisation devoted to deflecting international criticism from Israel, edited a video’d statement by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967, to make it seem that she declared: “Israel is an enemy of humanity”. She didn’t…
16 February 2026 Dr Marchella Ward of the Open University explains in this article in the Middle East Monitor the UKLFI’s unprincipled attempt to rewrite the history of the Middle East in order to establish modern day Israel’s claim to Palestinian land. Israel is trying to rewrite history – and British institutions risk helping them…
16 February 2026 It is nearly fifty years since Edward Said denounced modern Zionists for their persistent efforts to silence and make invisible the Palestinians whose land they had largely appropriated. They clearly have not ceased in their efforts, for in recent months UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) has pressured the Open University, the British…
13 February 2026 In this article for The Baffler, Mary Turfah, author and physician (photo), describes the horrific exploitation of Palestinian bodies by Israeli authorities who deliberately desecrate them or withhold them for months and years as a means of asserting their superiority over Palestinians and humiliating and controlling the survivors. Her account brings to…
13 February 2026 The Palestine Mental Health Networks explains why resignation is the appropriate response. Psychoanalysis of ConscienceA Call to Resign from the IPAThe Palestine Mental Health Networks, representing mental health professionals from 23 nations, are calling on psychoanalysts to resign from the International Psychoanalytic Association.The IPA has refused to name the genocide in Gaza,…
11 February 2026 BRISMES, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, has written the letter below to Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, explaining the phrases “Globalise the Intifada” and “From the River to the Sea”. For two years and four months Israel…
11 February 2026 The Electronic Intifada publishes this account of a boy from the OPT who has been appallingly abused and tortured by Israeli authorities. Why Israel persecutes children like my son Shadi Rania Elias The Electronic Intifada 10 February 2026 My son Shadi Khoury – a skilled football goalkeeper, a shy but hardworking student with quiet…
7 February 2026 As could have been predicted, Zionist organisers in Australia immediately seized on the shootings at Bondi Beach to demand the total suppression of support for Palestinian human rights. This was a transparently cynical move, since the father and son responsible for the terrorist shootings were known to be influenced by ISIS and…
5 February 2026 Israel easily persuaded Western governments and the West’s complaisant Mainstream Media (MSM) that its assault on Gaza was solely aimed at eliminating Hamas. Leaving aside altogether the accelerating ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, reports such as the following one from Dr Ahmed Muhanna (photo), a prominent Palestinian medical specialist, illustrates just…
5 February 2026 The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls on all principled scholars to boycott the conference “Opposing Racial Discrimination: Historical Struggles and Legal Perspectives” to be held at Hebrew University, May 11-12, 2026. How can a conference purporting to address the role of international law in confronting racial prejudice…