Palestine

Do Jewish lives not count?

If we’re going to display images of Palestinian victims, can we also include the victims of the October 7th attack?

Hecht off – Frank McNally on the testing testimony of a brilliant newspaper man

New York-born journalist and author set bar rather high for those who followed

Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest

‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank

Martin and Mamdani call bingo numbers and smile for the cameras in heart of Irish New York

Mayor bats away offer from marijuana dispensary as Taoiseach explains the Subway’s Cork connection

Supporters urge Spanish PM to spurn US request for extradition of Palestine aid donor

Wealthy activist Fergie Chambers arrested in Ibiza last July after extradition request

Irish footballers should abandon match against ‘baby killers’, TD tells Dáil

Paul Murphy calls on team to ‘do the right thing’ by refusing to fulfil Israel fixture on Sunday

Our casual cruelty towards some gifted Gazan students

When it comes to backing up what it says with deeds, the Government is found wanting

Netanyahu says he will use UN address to ‘tell the truth about’ New York mayor

Zohran Mamdani brushed off the remarks, saying the Israeli prime minister is ‘the architect of horrific genocide against Palestinians’

FAI should do its job and cancel the Ireland-Israel football matches

We will not sing in Eurovision because of Israel, but we will play them at football

At the ‘Art Olympics’ in Venice, the horrors of Gaza have not been forgotten

Prize jury of the Venice Biennale resigned before the doors opened in a protest over the participation of Russia and Israel

Israel’s settlement policy is designed to bury the idea of a two-state solution

Netanyahu boasted in 2025 that ‘we are going to fulfil our promise that there will be no Palestinian state.’

The Ed Sheeran controversy made Irish artists the biggest in the world

Until now, there has been a perception and reality that speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Palestine will hurt the bottom line

‘We came to the best place on earth. Irish people have been so generous to Palestine’

Izzedeen Alkarajeh runs Café Izz in Cork city, serving authentic Palestinian food, with his wife Eman

Can anyone end the Netanyahu era?

An Arab party could decide Israel’s future – with a new deputy who is a Jewish lawmaker and paratrooper

‘We have skin in the game’: TD backs ‘half Irish’ Macklemore after Sheeran ditching

Plus: National Library seeks a Deputy Chief Herald, Phil Hogan tours East Africa as he bids for UN job, Marty Whelan honoured to be honoured

New poetry: ‘The most horrifying, exquisite and staggering poems I have ever read’

Mícheál McCann reviews Milk & Moon-water by Milena Williamson; Real Estate by Mark Ward; Landscape with Question by Leeanne Quinn; and 48kg by Batool Abu Akleen

‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a moment of reckoning

‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from US billionaire

British government ‘not in position’ to move on Border poll, says Taoiseach

Taoiseach thanks Andy Burnham for ‘standing’ up for needs and rights of Palestinian people

Macklemore to donate $1 million from Ed Sheeran tour to Palestinian charities

He invited Robert Kraft, who asked Sheeran to drop the rapper from the tour, to match his donation

Ed Sheeran controversy: How his North American tour has ended up in crisis

Were Sheeran to cancel the tour, the total economic loss is estimated to be anywhere from $60-$100 million

Children among at least 21 killed as damaged building collapses in Gaza

Nearly 100 people believed to be trapped under rubble

Disputed lands of West Bank have a long history

Co-existence through negotiation and dialogue is the only way forward

Airbnb and the Palestinian people

Company is a target for BDS campaign and a huge driver of Ireland’s housing crisis

Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga quit Ed Sheeran’s US tour in protest over Palestine

Macklemore was previously removed from the tour after saying ‘Free Palestine’ at a concert in New Jersey

Fiction in translation: Hafni Says by Danish writer Helle Helle is close to perfection

Plus new works by Pirkko Saisio, Felix Hartlaub, Karim Kattan and Angélica Gorodischer

We need leaders with the courage of a Kennedy or a de Gaulle

Contrast their bravery with the behaviour of the Irish Government, which has refused visas to 97 Palestinian students, makes excuses about Aughinish and will today welcome a convicted felon

There is still time for Government to re-evaluate stance on Gaza students

Both inhumane and retrogressive to refuse these visas

EU should treat Israeli settlements like Russian-occupied Crimea, says bloc’s top diplomat

Kaja Kallas tells The Irish Times an EU-wide Occupied Territories trade ban would be ‘principled’ stand

Kaja Kallas: EU ban on Israeli settlement trade would be ‘principled stance’

Bloc’s most senior foreign policy official said move does not require unanimous support of all 27 member states

Kenny Cunningham’s comments are at odds with public sentiment

Irish football supporters would not support pundit’s stance on Israel game

What now for the Israel flags flying across the North?

Some of the complaints heard from Israel this week have been of British colonial arrogance. This tired cliche misses the point

Why is Israel’s E1 settlement plan in West Bank so controversial?

Project is designed to ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’, far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich has said

Israel closes UK consulate over West Bank sanctions row

British foreign secretary says ‘settler terrorists’ have carried out ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Palestinian territories

Why Andy Burnham is taking on Israel over the West Bank

Britain’s planned trade ban risks a diplomatic and economic backlash, but Labour sees an opportunity to rebuild support on its left flank

Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teens after settlers encircle village in West Bank

Khalil Abu Alia (16), who was shot by sniper, and Omar al-Nassan (19) killed after settlers entered Palestinian village of Hebron

Israeli athletes will not take part in Derry triathlon after concerns raised, organisers say

North West Triathlon Club says it had ‘no involvement whatsoever in accepting or approving these international entries’

Kneecap get special visa exemption for New Zealand gigs after ban from Hungary

New Zealand immigration say ‘political views’ not a valid cause for exclusion

Ireland should not greet Donald Trump’s theatre of the absurd with deference

Nothing to admire in US president’s bullying and provocation

Denying Palestinian students academic opportunities in Ireland is indefensible

Justifying objections by referencing challenges faced by Irish students is contemptible

Daisy Johnson: ‘I like writing about the entanglements of family’

The youngest ever Booker Prize shortlisted author on her new novel, Long Wave

Opposing views on Palestinian student visas

Green Party councillor calls on Jim O’Callaghan to intervene; UCC academic says universities showing contempt for native Irish students

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