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A video screenshot showing people blocking an intersection during a protest in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026
Middle East / 10 January 2026
10 January 2026

A statement from the Parti Communiste Francais

Protesters participate in a demonstration in Berlin, Germany, in support of the nationwide mass protests in Iran against the government, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026
Middle East / 10 January 2026
10 January 2026

THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction

Palestinians walk amid buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, January 6, 2026
Middle East / 9 January 2026
9 January 2026

RAMZY BAROUD offers six reasons why Netanyahu is prolonging conflict in the Middle East

The president of the Yemen's Southern Transitional Council Aidarous Al-Zubaidi sits for an interview, September 22, 2023, in New York
Middle East / 7 January 2026
7 January 2026
People look through the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike at a commercial district in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, January 6, 2026
Middle East / 6 January 2026
6 January 2026
Screenshot
Activism / 2 January 2026
2 January 2026

Stop the War warns government to ‘expect a very large riposte’ against its repression of pro-Palestine activism

The sun sets behind war-damaged buildings in Gaza City, December 31, 2025
Middle East / 31 December 2025
31 December 2025
This frame grab from video broadcast by Saudi state television on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, shows what the kingdom describes as a shipment of weapons and armored vehicles coming from the UAE, at Mukalla, Yemen
Middle East / 30 December 2025
30 December 2025
Palestinians stand next to a tent set up on the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in Gaza City, December 30, 2025
Middle East / 30 December 2025
30 December 2025
A woman holds a child as they stand in front of their tent in a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians set up in an area in Gaza City, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025
Middle East / 29 December 2025
29 December 2025
People shop in the old main bazaar of the northern city of Rasht, Iran, December 26, 2025
Middle East / 29 December 2025
29 December 2025
The Abdeen family performed the funeral prayer for their 29-day-old infant son, Saeed Abdeen, who died due to the cold weather, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, December 18, 2025
Middle East / 19 December 2025
19 December 2025
NEVER ALONE: Israeli activists from Free Jerusalem movement protest against the evictions of Palestinian residents from the east Jerusalem neigbourhood of Silwan yesterday
Palestine / 20 December 2025
20 December 2025

None of these Israeli officials shows the slightest interest in Trump’s ‘peace plan’ or in the Palestinian vision of statehood, warns RAMZY BAROUD

OPTIONS DRY UP: A satellite picture from Planet Labs PBC shows Lar Dam outside of Tehran, Iran on November 18 2025 and illustrates the worsening drought around the capital / Pic: Planet Labs PBC via AP
Middle East / 19 December 2025
19 December 2025

The June 2025 attacks on Iran have heightened the risk of a wider war, exposed the fiction of a rules-based international order and left ordinary Iranians trapped between external aggression and internal repression, says the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights

PALESTINIAN PIETA: The mourning over the body of Ammar Sabbah, 16, killed in an Israeli military raid near Bethlehem on Tuesday, December 16 2025
Palestine / 19 December 2025
19 December 2025

Once the bustling heart of Christian pilgrimage, Bethlehem now faces shuttered hotels, empty streets and a shrinking Christian community, while Israel’s assault on Gaza and the tightening grip of occupation destroy hopes of peace at the birthplace of Christ, writes Father GEOFF BOTTOMS

Palestinians walk along a street past a tent camp, backdropped by buildings destroyed during Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, December 17, 2025
Middle East / 18 December 2025
18 December 2025
An oil platform is seen in the Leviathan natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea off Israel's coast, January 31, 2019
Middle East / 18 December 2025
18 December 2025
Protesters gather at Marble Arch in London before they march to Trafalgar Square to protest against the Islamic Republic in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, January 8, 2023
Committee for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights / 7 December 2025
7 December 2025
Smoke rises as Israeli forces demolish the home of Abdul Karim Sanoubar in Nablus, West Bank, December 2, 2025
Middle East / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Gaza Cola
Men’s Football / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
same sky
Book Review / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025

JENNY FARRELL relishes an outstanding Palestinian novel that immerses readers in the sensory reality of Gaza, then and now

The body of one of the victims of an Israeli forces raid in the southern Syrian village of Beit Jin is brought to Al-Mowasat Hospital in Damascus, November 28, 2025
Middle East / 28 November 2025
28 November 2025
A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl into al-Shifa Hospital following Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 29 November 2025
29 November 2025

On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights

A Welsh flag before the UEFA Euro U21 Championship Group I match at Rodney Parade, Newport, March 22, 2024
Football / 25 November 2025
25 November 2025
Syrian women walk past a fence of the National Museum of Syria in Damascus, Syria, November 12, 2025
Middle East / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025
An Israeli army vehicle moves along the border of the Gaza strip, as seen from a southern Israel location on November 18, 2025
Middle East / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025
palestine toons
Book Review / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

PAUL BUHLE an RAYMOND TYLER enjoy an issue of the radical comic WW3 that gives a platform to Palestinian artists, and uncensored commentary

A Palestinian woman walks through a rainstorm past buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, November 14, 2025
Middle East / 17 November 2025
17 November 2025
An apartment is seen damaged after a Russian attack on residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025
Global Politics / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025

Israel’s genocide in Gaza persists, while the war in Ukraine continues with no negotiated settlement in sight. As Europe rearms and Britain expands its nuclear capabilities, CAROL TURNER reviews the alternatives

Palestinians walk through the destruction caused by the Israeli military in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, November 11, 2025
Communist Party of Britain / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025

Ahead of the Communist Party’s forthcoming Congress, KEVAN NELSON takes a look at the global issues of war, peace and imperialism that will be up for discussion among comrades this weekend

Protesters take part in a rally outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, where Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organisation, is appealing the High Court ruling on their legal challenge against the Department for Business and Trade over several decisions, including not to suspend licences to export parts for F-35 jets amid other suspensions. Picture date: Thursday October 9, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 12 November 2025
12 November 2025
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani his vote in the country's parliamentary election in Baghdad, Iraq, November 11, 2025
Middle East / 11 November 2025
11 November 2025
Displaced Palestinians walk among the ruins of destroyed buildings in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, November 8, 2025
Middle East / 10 November 2025
10 November 2025
Palestinians rush toward trucks carrying aid from the World Food Programme (WFP) as they drive through Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, November 8, 2025
Middle East / 9 November 2025
9 November 2025
Palestinians attend Friday prayers at the Omari Mosque in Gaza's Old City Friday, Nov. 7, 2025
Middle East / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
Soas 2
Activism / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
Swee Ang (first on right) during her annual visit to the Sabra Shatila commemoration in Beirut with children born after the massacre Pic: courtesy of Swee Ang
Features / 9 November 2025
9 November 2025

SWEE ANG, the founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, is a big believer in the power of small actions, and she is the living proof it works, writes Linda Pentz Gunter

Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa
Middle East / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
Civil defense members cordon off the area around a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in the village of Teir Debba, southern Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025
Middle East / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
President Donald Trump is illuminated by a camera flash as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Washington, after returning from a trip to Florida
Editorial: / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
Bodies of unidentified Palestinians returned from Israel as part of the ceasefire deal are placed at a warehouse in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, October 31, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025
Palestinians watch as Egyptian machinery and workers search for the bodies of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people, writes NAVID SHOMALI

Maryam al-Khawaja holds a picture of her father, the imprisoned activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, outside the embassy of Bahrain in London, Sept. 15, 2023
Middle East / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025
A block of flats damaged in Russian attacks, October 22, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine
Middle East / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

Israel still killing Palestinians and restricting aid despite ceasefire, Gazans warn

Standing Together olive harvest
Palestine / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

URI WELTMANN reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers

Palestinians collect leaflets dropped by an Israeli drone warning people to stay away from the so-called yellow line in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 20, 2025
Middle East / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025
Doctors and campaigners demonstrate outside Parliament to demand the release of Palestinian medics detained in Israel, October 21, 2025
Palestine Solidarity / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025