A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Stand and be counted
Amid government attempts to clamp down on civil liberties and the right to protest it has never been more important to raise your voice for Palestine and for peace, writes ANN CZERNIK
A Palestine protest at the Israeli embassy in London
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
Years of austerity and political failure have left classrooms overcrowded and staff overstretched – now educators are organising across roles to demand change, says ED HARLOW
While US restrictions tighten economic and social pressures on Cuba, international allies and grassroots campaigns are stepping in to support the island’s resilience, writes BERNARD REGAN, secretary of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Labour’s approach to Scotland reveals a long-running tension between rhetoric and reality, warns PAULINE BRYAN
THE unfolding horror of the Palestinian people in Gaza has been called “a defining global justice issue of our time.”
An important truth, and fundamental human rights have been lost in the rhetoric of this conflict. Human rights are universal and apply to all.
But today, in Israel and Palestine, and in Britain, these rights are qualified by which side of the political divide you are on.
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