What is E-1 and why do the international community care so much?
On November 29th, the UN overwhelmingly endorsed the two-state solution by recognising the state of Palestine alongside Israel, which it had admitted 64 years earlier. In response to Palestine’s...
View ArticleUpcoming elections in 2013
Israel Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to win re-election on January 22nd. National opinion polls show that Likud and its electoral partnership with the nationalist party Yisrael Beiteinu are in a strong...
View ArticleGeorge Galloway does debate with some Israelis
Given that George Galloway has been trending today on Twitter, I gather many of you will have seen the video from last night of the MP for Bradford West refusing to debate a student, one Eylon...
View ArticleThe Left and Israel: Ed Miliband just pressed reset
Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom: For a deeper understanding of Israel and the region In an event organised last night by the Board of Deputies, Labour leader Ed Miliband was asked by a member of...
View ArticleWhy is Obama hugging Israel today?
Dr Toby Greene who is Director of Research at BICOM For many on the British Left it may seem counter-intuitive. Now safely though re-election and freed of electoral constraints, isn’t this when a...
View ArticleOccupy Zionism! Stav Shaffir on the new politics of patriotism and protest
Stav Shaffir was a leader of the Israeli social protest movement in 2011 and 2012. She was elected to the Knesset in 2013 on the Labour Party list The social protest movement is patriotic, seeking to...
View ArticleSo why did Stephen Hawking think it was ok to visit Iran and China?
After a great deal of confusing reports, it was confirmed yesterday that physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a conference in Israel next month after being lobbied by...
View ArticlePeace makers promote peace, not boycotts
Dr Toby Greene is director of research at BICOM Two weeks ago I attended the annual policy conference of the Institute for National Security Studies, Israel’s premier strategic think tank based at Tel...
View ArticleBoycotting Israel: Moderate voices drowned out by hard-liners
By Alex Bjarnason, organiser and communications Officer for Trade Union Friends of Israel The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most complex and difficult in modern history, with two competing...
View ArticleWe should be supporting progressive forces in Israel, not boycotting them
By Emine Ibrahim, chair of Redbridge Unison, Greater London Region Below is Emine’s speech to the UNISON National Delegate Conference on Thursday, June 20. In a long standing tradition,...
View ArticleSupport progressives in Israel by all means, but don’t vilify boycotts
Gary Spedding is a freelance journalist and writer The idea of nations and peoples cooperating instead of fixating on individual respective national interests is popular in trade union movements due to...
View ArticleIn defence of the Histadrut: a response to Gary Spedding
Prof. Alan Johnson is the editor of Fathom: for a deeper understanding of Israel and the region, and is the author of The New Histadrut: Peace, Social Justice and the Israeli Trade Unions “Quite...
View ArticleThe death of the two-state solution has been exaggerated
Dr Toby Greene is director of research at BICOM According to James’s Joyce’s character Leopold Blum, reading your own obituary gives you a new lease of life. Proponents of the two-state solution should...
View ArticleWhy Israeli-Palestinian talks could succeed
Whilst it is easy to rattle off reasons why things won’t work out in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, it is important not to overstate these, nor to lose sight of factors which could play in...
View ArticleFrom West Wing to West Bank: progress on Israel Palestine talks
Dermot Kehoe is the CEO of BICOM In the US liberal fantasy that is the West Wing, there is a scene when chief of staff Leo McGarry is standing tentatively outside a door in the basement of the White...
View ArticleFeature: The formal political process isn’t always the best way to effect...
TweetThe tools that citizens are using to advance human rights in Tel Aviv and beyond are evolving. A descendant of refugees and a social activist at the heart of Israel’s protest movement, Yigal...
View ArticleWhy a bad deal on Iran is a nightmare scenario
TweetDr.Toby Greene is director of research for BICOM and deputy editor of Fathom Journal The high diplomatic drama surrounding the P5+1 talks with Iran generated a remarkable sight in Israel. Prime...
View ArticleAriel Sharon’s mixed legacy
TweetRichard Pater is a political analyst and commentator based in Israel. He is also the director of BICOM in Israel Arik Sharon, as he was affectionately known to Israelis, will be buried later today...
View ArticleNeturei Karta: enemies not allies
TweetTom Harris is a member of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) When Jobbik leader Gábor Vona visited London last weekend, I was one of over a hundred people to assemble at Holborn...
View ArticleAn interview with new Israeli Labour leader Isaac Herzog
TweetThe newly elected Israeli Labour leader Isaac Herzog sat down to discuss the Britain-Israel relationship with Toby Greene, the deputy editor of Fathom, and Richard Pater, head of BICOM in Israel...
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