Opinion: How Erdoğan’s Threats Against Kurdish Syria Endanger Us All
On November 21st, in response to a rocket attack on a Turkish town on the country’s border with Syria, President
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Middle East
Mistreatment of Detained Palestinians
According to The United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT) – to which Israel is a State party – torture is
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Opinion: Israel’s Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors
Israeli citizen Shahar Perets, 19, was recently jailed for the third time for repeatedly refusing to join the Israeli military,
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Opinion: Israeli Election 2021: Six months on – Part 2
After my last piece for the Witness, I had planned this week to detail the Israeli government’s actions throughout the
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Israel claims human rights groups are terrorist organisations
On the 19th of October, the Israeli government labelled six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations, claiming that they
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Opinion: 2021 Israeli Elections, six months on – Part 1
At face value, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett are the most unlikely of duos. The pair represent just about the
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Opinion: Palestine, Apartheid and Online Activism
There is nothing quite as divisive as talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is perhaps why many people do not
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Why anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism must be understood as separate issues
The danger of using the terms ‘anti-Zionist’ and ‘anti-semitic’ in an interchangeable manner is that this “uses Jewish suffering to
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The Murder of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
On Friday, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, “the architect of Tehran’s nuclear strategy” was assassinated, creating a hazardous increase in tensions in the
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