Showing posts with label The Observer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Observer. Show all posts
Monday, January 19, 2026

Paperback of the week: Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth -Roth spent three decades as head of Human Rights Watch. His record of past victories is also a warning for the future

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Roth notes the struggle for human rights is “incessant”; there is no sign that China and others will stop their abuses anytime soon"...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

"There are now, as the historian Rashid Khalidi has put it, “two peoples in Palestine, irrespective of how they came into being”, and their “mutual acceptance can only be based on complete equality of rights”. If that sounds utopian, it is largely because of the decay of political leadership in both Israel and Palestine. Whatever happens with the Trump plan, no amount of bulldozer diplomacy or external governance will alter that." Kenan Malik

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Without a two-state solution or single state with equal rights, what hope is there? Kenan Malik   https://observer.co.uk/news/opinion-and-id...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

‘They lock us in like sheep’: new Israeli checkpoints and barriers raise fears in the West Bank. Israel’s growing network of roadblocks are cutting off communities from major transport routes, disrupting work, education and aid supplies

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Palestinians living in the West Bank passing through the Qalandiya military checkpoint separating Ramallah and Jerusalem for the first Fri...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Sue Williamson, an anti-apartheid artist: “They’re trying to set it up that South Africa is not a credible country to bring such a case [the International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against Israel]... You’ll see South Africa dragged through the mud a lot more by Netanyahu [Benjamin, prime minister of Israel] and Trump and Musk.”

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Chair for Ray Alexander, created from 1990 to 1992. Photograph: Sue Williamson ‘Trump and Musk are gaslighting’: anti-apartheid artist on h...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

"Trauma in Palestine is collective and continuous. PTSD is when your mind is stuck in a traumatic loop. In Palestine, the loop is reality." Dr Samah Jabr

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Children stand amid the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli air strike in the centre of the Gaza Strip. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images   ‘...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Palestinian family home demolished by Israeli forces in Jerusalem

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A Palestinian child cries after his family's home was demolished in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem. The building was said to have been cons...