Palestine

The Metropolitan Police has revised the enforcement approach officers will take in response to displays of support for Palestine Action which is a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act. Anyone showing support for the group is likely to be arrested. This is a change from an interim position adopted following…

By JOSEPH STRAUSS/JTA MARCH 25, 2026 18:18 Updated: MARCH 26, 2026 07:24 Some critics of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) are calling for its excision from electoral politics. Others are working to beat the pro-Israel lobby at its own game.  At least three groups have entered the scene…

London, United Kingdom – A month after being released on bail, pro-Palestine activists who participated in a lengthy hunger strike in prison are planning on taking legal action over their alleged mistreatment. On Wednesday, at a news conference where four of the activists spoke about life in jail and their…

Móglaí Bap takes a sip of his beer and then lays an Irish-history lesson on me. He’s calling over Zoom from a pub in Belfast alongside Mo Chara and the balaclava-wearing DJ Próvaí—the other two members of the Irish rap group Kneecap. The barkeep hands them all pitch-black brews as…

Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Democracy, Featured, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations A sign outside the UN Secretariat building last year. UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 2026 (IPS) - As the world continues to be weighed down in political and military turmoil,…

Palestinians carrying bags return from a food distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the Netsarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2025. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty discussed on Monday, March 16, 2026, in a…

“You can be part of the movie-making community, which is an important community, and also be a citizen,” the actor said The Oscars largely avoided politics this year, besides a few quips in host Conan O’Brien’s opening monologue. Javier Bardem, however, used his platform as a presenter to take a stance on the war in…

A New Jersey woman who had been arrested at a pro-Palestine protest and booked into a US immigration detention center in Texas last March has been released on bond, after a year in custody. Leqaa Kordia, 33, originally from the West Bank, was arrested in April 2024 at a protest…

Spanish actor Javier Bardem delivered a pro-Palestinian message from the Oscars stage on March 15, declaring “No to war and free Palestine” to an applause from the Dolby Theatre audience. Presenting the Oscar for Best International Feature Film alongside Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Bardem paused before announcing the winner to issue…

The Bani Odeh family were buried on Sunday Two boys who survived a shooting that killed four members of their family, including their parents, in the northern West Bank town of Tammoun have described witnessing the attack that left them orphaned and without two of their brothers. The attack happened…