The following interview was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 January 2025, the day before an Israeli law came into force banning UNRWA, the UN relief agency, from operating in Gaza, a Palestinian territory which Israel illegally occupies. Evan … Continue reading →
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on January 27 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp complex at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Russian troops. Around a million people were killed there as the Nazis tried to exterminate … Continue reading →
Palestine and the UN have been inextricably linked since the organization was founded. UN departments have been criticizing Israel’s actions for over a year. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese even wrote two reports documenting the genocide in Gaza. Despite that, … Continue reading →
The number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank is now growing at a rate faster than Israel’s overall population, despite the fact that settlements are considered illegal under international law. Israel is also expanding its military operations beyond the … Continue reading →
Merriam Webster define fascism as a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual. Others say that loyalty to tribe, ethnic identity, religion or tradition is the core of fascism. It is usually associated … Continue reading →
A report published by Human Rights Watch, a group that investigates abuses of human rights in almost 100 countries, has published a report “Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza” that examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct … Continue reading →
On 28 September 2024 Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations from the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, delivered a presentation to Warwick District United Nations Association entitled A Case for the UN Transitional Authority for Gaza? … Continue reading →
On 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants of arrest for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif. The arrest warrants are classified … Continue reading →
On 12 November 2024, UK Professor Nizam Mamode described to the UK Government’s International Development Committee his heart-rending observations of the frequent and deliberate murder of women and children, some as young as three, by Israeli drones in Southern Gaza … Continue reading →
In her report in March 2024 entitled “Anatomy of a genocide”, Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, concluded that there were “reasonable grounds to believe that the … Continue reading →