The conflict currently raging in Gaza is the third in six years. I use the word ‘conflict’ to describe the confrontation between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement that governs the Gaza strip, with […]
TV | The Honourable Woman – Nothing is what it seems in this exceptional spy thriller
A tight close-up of a blade and the swish of metal on metal, but the camera pans out to show it’s only a wire bread basket and tongs. A waiter neatly lines the basket with […]
Comment | Israel's abuses must end
Israeli Apartheid Week is often accused of been divisive, creating tensions and alienating people. These accusations are completely correct, in that it divides those who defend apartheid from those who do not. The International Convention […]
Photo: PSG construct Union checkpoint
Members of the Palestinian Solidarity Group constructed a checkpoint outside Leeds University Union this week. The stunt intended to highlight the day-to-day struggles faced by Palestinians living in the West Bank. Second year English student […]
Campus chalk stunt for Palestinian deaths
Travellers through the Red Route were confronted with a macabre spectacle this week, with the outline of over a hundred bodies drawn in chalk outside the Roger Stevens building. The outlines were sketched to raise […]
Inside Palestine: interview with Itay Epstain, co-director of ICAHD
Could you explain the structure of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and how it works? ICAHD was established in 1997. It was set up at the outset to counter a specific Israeli policy: that […]
Inside Palestine: human rights activist and journalist Harry Fear on Gaza
Harry Fear visited Leeds to talk about what life is like life for ordinary students in Gaza