Earlier this week, in a New York Times op-ed, Richard Goldstone denounced those comparing Israeli state policies to apartheid South Africa. He singled out for criticism the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, due to start its South Africa session on Saturday. In an exclusive essay, renowned legal scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories John Dugard responds.
The findings of the UN's Palmer report, published last month, on Israel's attack on the Gaza Flotilla, have triggered an unprecedented fallout between the Turkish and Israeli governments. In an exclusive new essay, the UN's special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, renowned academic and legal expert Richard Falk, gives his verdict on the report.
Last week, Palestinians marched in their thousands to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of their national catastrophe, the Nakba. Ceasefire's Hama Waqum, who had just arrived in Gaza with the Vik2Gaza Convoy, reports on how a people besieged are finally breaking free.
Ceasefire presents 'The Zoo', an exclusive short story by acclaimed writer Ben White. After a traumatic onslaught of unremitting violence, a community's children, adults and animals are thrust into a vortex of incomprehension and bewilderment.
'Not surprisingly,' writes Rowan Lubbock, 'the anger and rage that is slowly sprouting form this latest sowing of violence is already visible. As with all episodes in the great chess-game of Middle East power politics, it is the weak that suffer the consequences.'