Regions / Middle East / Palestine

From Sharpeville to Gaza, Ronnie Kasrils reflects on the shared struggle against apartheid, exposing Israel’s crimes as worse than South Africa’s – and urging the world to act with equal resolve.

Palestinian resistance lives in the rifle, the pen, the olive tree and the memory of the land, writes Tahrir Hamdi.

Veteran political prisoner Khalida Jarrar was released during January’s brief ceasefire agreement. Speaking to Louis Brehony, she reflects on life and resistance behind bars.

Ramzy Baroud traces key events in the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

As Israel’s third-largest weapons supplier, Italy profits from the genocide in Gaza. Yet dockworkers and students are reviving traditions of international solidarity to challenge this complicity, writes Romana Rubeo.

Ilan Pappé dissects the language of genocide used throughout the Zionist movement, from the hidden orders of early military leaders to the lips of Israeli ministers on live TV.

Gaza-born journalist Ramzy Baroud traces how Palestinians have turned survival into a struggle for dignity, history and freedom, with Gaza at the heart of the resistance.

Returning from Gaza, British doctor Victoria Rose tells Subi Shah of operating under fire, documenting war crimes and calling out Israel’s propaganda.

New Internationalists' view on the proscription of protest.

Egypt keeps displaced Palestinians in legal limbo, denying them stability and rights. By Rebecca Ruth Gould.

Rhyme and Punishment, by Paula Lacey.

Gaza aid ship blasted as Israel extends its siege beyond the shoreline, by Paula Lacey.

The Jenin refugee camp has long been branded a ‘capital of resistance’ for Palestinians in the West Bank, but it has paid a price. Kasturi Chakraborty reports on the impacts of Israel’s latest siege and life under surveillance.

Francesca Albanese has stepped out of the United Nations’ structures to speak directly to the world’s people about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Bethany Rielly meets her.

Having facilitated Israel’s settler-colonial project, the UN is now helpless to pick up the pieces. By Hamza Yusuf.

Poet and polemicist Mohammed El-Kurd chronicles the erasure of Palestinians – in voice as well as body. By Hamza Yusuf.

Without a reckoning over their support for Israeli genocide, the US Democrats are doomed to fail, argues Decca Muldowney.

Disaster appeals that airbrush Israel’s role in the Gaza genocide are not just offensive – they’re dangerous, argues Nick Dearden.

Israel intensifies deportations of international activists from the West Bank, aiming to isolate Palestinians amid escalating settler violence, writes Bethany Rielly.

The possibility of reaching a one-state solution seems more distant than ever, but it remains the most obvious, direct and logical route to end the conflict and build a just future for Palestinians and Israelis, argues Ghada Karmi.