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  • June 23, 2015
    UN report on Gaza conflict an 'important step' for justice

    Amnesty Interntional has welcomed today's publication of the findings of the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry’s report into last year’s 50-day conflict in Gaza.

  • December 25, 2014
    Palestinian dispossession is focus of WCC exhibition and conference

    Experiences of death and expulsion faced by some 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 are the subject of an exhibition hosted by the WCC.

  • November 28, 2014
    UK licensed £7 million worth of arms to Israel in lead up to Gaza bombing

    New government figures collated by CAAT show that the UK approved £7 million worth of military licences to Israel during the six months prior to the recent bombing of Gaza.

  • October 21, 2014
    Turkey, Israel and contending with riddled realities

    Recognition of the Armenian genocide does not start with the UK, or the USA and Israel, but rather with Turkey itself. And the past century has shown us how hard it is to wrest recognition from Turkey. Similarly, the creation of a sovereign Palestine does not start with the EU or the Arab league as much as it does with Israel, says Ekklesia associate and regional expert Dr Harry Hagopian. Yet it seems increasingly difficult to get those with most power to accept political truth-telling as an essential component of any attempt to achieve justice, peace and security for peoples involved in long-standing conflicts.

  • October 10, 2014
    Legal action begins against BIS over UK arms sales to Israel

    Campaign Against Arms Trade has instructed law firm Leigh Day to pursue an application for judicial review over the UK government's refusal to revoke arms export licences to Israel.

  • August 31, 2014
    UN peacekeepers in the Golan come under renewed attack

    The UN says its peacekeepers in the Golan were attacked by armed elements on 30 August, as efforts continue to achieve the safe release of 44 blue helmets previously detained.

  • August 17, 2014
    Don't bomb Iraq (again)

    The stories from Iraq are getting worse. There is news of massacres and threatened massacres, reported deaths and abductions, the sufferings of Yazidis, Christians and the many Muslims who reject the message of ISIS. It makes me sad and angry in equal measure.

  • August 14, 2014
    Government must embargo all arms sales to Israel, say campaigners

    Campaign Against Arms Trade has condemned the UK government's response to its own review of licensed exports to Israel.

  • July 26, 2014
    Middle East solidarity

    ‘It looks as if the end could be very near.’ This was the emotional response of Canon Andrew White, the Vicar of Baghdad this morning, when asked about the prospects for Christianity in Iraq. He was at pains to stress that Christians and Muslims in Iraq have lived and worked together peacefully for centuries: it is terrorism, not Islam that is the problem.

  • July 17, 2014
    Quakers plan worship and protest at Farnborough International

    Quakers in the Hampshire area are planning a Meeting for Worship at Farnborough International, which hosts an arms fair alongside “family-friendly” air displays.