Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR) was set up by UK-based practising lawyers and law students in London in 1988, during the first intifada in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. LPHR supports Palestinian people in their legal struggle to exercise their…
Fascism is neither right nor left
If in exchange for decreased world pressure for an international probe into Gaza flotilla events, as The Daily Telegraph reports, the Gaza siege will be eased, then this will be another failure of the international community to impose sanction on…
Fear, pain and propaganda: an activist’s story
Scottish campaigner Theresa McDermott speaks exclusively to David Pratt and reveals what she witnessed when Israeli commandos stormed the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last week. I was on Challenger 1, a 25-metre motor yacht that was the smallest…
Kidnapped by Israel, forsaken by Britain
“It was this time last week that I was on the top deck of the Mavi Marmara, and first spotted Israeli war ships in the distance, as they approached the humanitarian flotilla. Little did I know how deadly and bloody…
Who was Rachel Corrie?
Long article about this you woman in The Guardian (from 2008) In one of her final emails home Rachel said, ‘This has to stop! I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our…
Colonizers’ Hutzpah
“It amounts to this: protected by a Western empire, you colonize a part of the world, ethnically cleanse as many of its indigenous people as you can, and confine the remainder to stew in a series of besieged reservations, which…