BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further

RARELY does the Palestinian ambassador to the UN make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Yet the Palestinian ambassador Riyad Mansour is “very happy that there was a very strong united message from the security council against the illegal, unilateral measure” undertaken by the Israeli government.
The measure is a specific reference to a decision, on February 12, by the far-right government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to construct 10,000 new housing units in nine illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD

With foreign media banned from Gaza, Palestinians themselves have reversed most of zionism’s century-long propaganda gains in just two years — this is why Israel has killed 270 journalists since October 2023, explains RAMZY BAROUD

Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD

RAMZY BAROUD asks why it has taken so long for even left-wing voices in the West to call out what Israel is doing