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Analysis: Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike continues

Posted 26 April, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is "dangerously deteriorating" and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners who are striking alongside him.…

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Analysis: Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike continues

Posted 26 April, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti announced last week that he was going on hunger strike, accepting only water and salt. Palestinian officials say Barghouti’s health is "dangerously deteriorating" and that he is refusing Israeli medical treatment and food. This dramatic move has garnered the support of 1,000 of his fellow prisoners who are striking alongside him.…

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Analysis: Hamas mulls cosmetic changes to its charter

Posted 19 April, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
Hamas’ attempt to re-write their charter looks no closer to resolution as the militant group remains divided on proposed changes. Reformists within the group are trying to remove a series of anti-semitic clauses and include a provisional acceptance of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. These changes, however, have been met with opposition from…

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Analysis: Israel announces settlement restrictions

Posted 6 April, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories
After weeks of negotiations, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week a new framework on settlement construction in the West Bank. Citing the wishes of the new American administration to see settlement building curtailed, Netanyahu announced that any new construction will be limited to within existing settlement boundaries. Where this is not possible, new…

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Iain McNicol visits Israel with LFI

Posted 4 April, 2017 in Coexistence, Israel, Labour Party, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Iain McNicol, general secretary of the Labour party, travelled to Israel this week with Labour Friends of Israel. The three-day trip included laying a wreath at Yad Vashem; meeting with Israeli Labor MKs Hilik Bar and Michal Biran and the party’s new general secretary, Eran Hermoni; visiting a Jerusalem coexistence project; and a tour of…

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Labour dossier reveals PA’s school terror name shame

Posted 30 March, 2017 in Antisemitism, Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This article first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle.  Terrorists and Nazi collaborators have been 'honoured' by having schools named after them in the West Bank The government has been urged to step up pressure on the Palestinian Authority over funding pledges after it emerged that more than 20 Palestinian schools receiving cash in the West Bank and…

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Government must publish review into UK funding of Palestinian Authority

Posted 30 March, 2017 in Incitement, News, Palestinian Territories
This article first appeared in the Jewish Chronicle.  Labour Friends of Israel chair concerned that British money is going to pay salaries of teachers working at schools named after terrorists On 11 March 1978, Dalal Mughrabi led a group of 11 fellow Palestinian and Lebanese militants ashore on a Tel Aviv beach. After murdering a young American…

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Analysis: A new port for Gaza?

Posted 16 March, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Likud transport minister Yisrael Katz voiced his support again last week for a new sea port on the Gaza coast, indicating continuing Israeli concern about the future of the Palestinian enclave. The idea has been proposed in various forms over the past five years, though Katz’ vision is particularly ambitious: a $5bn artificial island three…

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Analysis: Israel Apartheid Week returns to campus

Posted 2 March, 2017 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
This week sees the return of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) to campuses in the UK. The week long anti-Israel campaign originated in Toronto in 2005 and has since spread to dozens of cities around the world. Campus groups host a series of discussions, exhibitions, film viewings and publicity stunts, aiming to demonise and delegitimise the…

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