Category Archives: Palestine
Palestinian students racing against the best with a car made from recycled bits
Stuart Littlewood highlights the impossible challenge facing Palestinian students from the Israeli occupied West Bank as they take on top Western universities at the Silverstone race circuit using recycled bits to manufacture a racing car. Read more [...]
Jerusalem belongs to us all!
Stuart Littlewood explains why Jerusalem does not belong to, and must not be allowed to be usurped by, the Israelis, and argues that it is past time for Palestinians to reframe the argument so that the justice of their cause is understood globally. Read more [...]
Watch: Jerusalem, “The Flower of Cities”
Nureddin Sabir, Editor, Redress Information Read more [...]
From an open internet, back to the dark ages
Jonathan Cook says internet censorship has begun with Facebook and Google discriminating against alternative content to that of Western corporate media, and that matters seem set to get worse. Read more [...]
Yasser Arafat, the leader I knew
Jamal Kanj remembers Yasser Arafat on the 13th anniversary of his death as a strong leader with a common touch who “accentuated Palestinian nationalism over pan-Arabism and secularism over religion.” Read more [...]
Mahmoud Abbas is no Yasser Arafat. He must go.
Stuart Littlewood explains why Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – and indeed the PA itself – have outlived any useful function they might have had – and should now step aside and make way for more competent leaders. Read more [...]
Forget the anti-Semitism fallacy, let’s focus on the Palestinians
Blake Alcott says the usurpation of Palestine, against the will of the Palestinians, has nothing to do with Israel’s Jewishness, only with its colonialism and racism – a question of justice for the dispossessed, from which the illegitimacy of Israel simply follows. Read more [...]
Signs of hope in the Middle East? Don’t hold your breath
James Dorsey explains why there should be no reason for optimism that violence and instability in the Middle East, whether in Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Yemen or the Gulf states, will come to an end anytime soon. Read more [...]
No time for shallow diplomacy, Christians, in the religious war on churches in the Holy Land
Stuart Littlewood examines the indifference of the Western Church establishments to the desperate cry for help from the National Coalition of Christian Organisations in Palestine, and argues the case for resetting the Christian-Jewish dialogue. Read more [...]
BDS, human rights and the Jews
Lawrence Davidson examines the achievements of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement as it enters its 13th year, and debunks the Israeli arguments intended to destroy it, including the attempt to identify it with anti-Semitism. Read more [...]
