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Hanging them all: Israel moves toward the death penalty

What is happening in Israeli prisons can no longer be read as a series of isolated abuses or as circumstantial deviations inherent to a prolonged conflict. The accumulated reports of Palestinian, Israeli, and United Nations organizations describe a coherent, progressive,…

Interview with Dr Alon Ben Meir: Promoting Nonviolence in the Middle East

David interviews Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, retired professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, for a wide-ranging conversation on the Davids Campaign and the urgent need to renew nonviolent strategies in the Middle East. The campaign seeks to support individuals…

Gaza: twenty-four lives in one night, including the man who tried to save them

An Israeli air strike on southern Gaza during the night of 5–6 February left at least 24 Palestinians dead. Among them was a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic, killed while evacuating the wounded. The massacre once again places at the centre…

The Media is Whitewashing Trump’s Board of Peace

Imagine telling someone who has experienced the most apocalyptic conditions known to man to give their perpetrators a “chance.” That’s exactly what it felt like when I opened my phone the other day and saw headlines from The Washington Post…

B’Tselem publishes new report on Israeli prisons

B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, has published a new report on the state of Israeli prisons, entitled “Living Hell,” on its website. “Living Hell” follows B’Tselem’s August 2024 report “Welcome to Hell.” Building on the in-depth research and analysis…

The Peace Walk to Jerusalem has started from Finisterre

Several dozen people from all over the world took part in the start of the Peace Walk to Jerusalem today, February 1, from Finisterre. A delegation from the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, which will celebrate its fourth edition…

Arab Lives Matter Rally in Tel Aviv: Thousands Demand End to Violence and State Inaction

January 31, 2026 – Thousands of demonstrators — Arabs and Jewish allies — marched through central Tel Aviv Saturday night in a powerful “Arab Lives Matter: STOP the Violence” rally calling for urgent action to halt the surge in violent…

Creative Energy Diplomacy Might Avert Another American Attack On Iran

Redirecting Iran’s oil exports from China to India in exchange for partial US sanctions relief could avert another American attack by satisfying its goal of depriving China of some of the resources that it requires for maintaining its rapid superpower…

Joint Statement on Recently Increased Human Rights Violations

Strong allegations have been reflected in the public sphere concerning extra-judicial executions, forced displacement, bombing of civilian settlements and urban infrastructure, arbitrary detention, torture and other forms of ill-treatment during the operation launched by HTS against the neighbourhoods of Sheikh…

When the UN is set on fire: the demolition of UNRWA as a moral and legal rupture of the international order

The demolition and subsequent burning of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem, carried out by Israeli authorities on 20 January 2026, do not constitute an…

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