Greens respond to coronavirus, the budget and transphobia in the Guardian – UK Green news round up issue 51
Greens call for "solidarity pact" as a response to coronavirus crisis In the past two weeks, the crisis surrounding coronavirus has rapidly escalated. The government has been issuing regular advice…
Syria’s tragedy is in danger of spreading across the Middle East
Photo: pixabay user 'ErikaWittlieb', Creative Commons license If the first casualty of war is the truth then a large dose of disinformation has always been its pre-strike call to…
Universities shake hands with EWRE and Halliburton
Image: Kxlly Kxsh, Flickr. Two studies at UCL and the University of Edinburgh that have received money from a new €12 million EU funding pot for research into the impacts…
Cycling through lost Palestine: the JNF Bike Path
Remap, remember, return: cycling from Jaffa to Jerusalem. Image: Cycle 48. We are about to embark on a cycle trip through Palestine's history. We are three women who found each other in…
Israelis offer Palestinians their votes in campaign against apartheid
Shimri Zameret, Israeli peace and democracy activist, and friend of this blog, has been in touch with the following message: "Hey everyone, we're a group of Palestinians and Israelis, and this is…
An open letter to the BBC on their use of the word 'militant'
Dear BBC, I am writing to complain about you coverage of the ongoing violence in Israel/Palestine. I am sure that you get many such complaints. Much of this, I suspect,…
Even if Iran did have nukes, what would it do with them?
It took some chutzpah for the prime minister of the country possessing the world’s largest unregulated nuclear arsenal to lecture the United Nations on the dangers of an Iranian bomb.…
On anti Israelism and antisemitism
On March 12, two students at the University of St Andrews, where I work, visited the room of a third, who was living in the same hall of residence, and…
Edinburgh University students vote overwhelmingly for boycott of Israeli goods.
A motion to boycott Israel was overwhelmingly passed at the Edinburgh University Students Association (EUSA) General Meeting on Monday 14th March. In what was described as a ‘landslide’, the motion,…
Egypt: we can’t predict, so let’s dream
By Ben Young - a writer and campaigner living in York Last month, Palestine campaigners in York held a sombre discussion about what 2011 might hold for the Middle East.…