The lower Israel sinks in public estimation, the more generous western leaders are in handing out aid and special favors to their wayward ally. Read more about EU, US race to reward Israel's massive human rights violations 

Despite its laughable conclusion that Israel is not occupying the West Bank, downplaying the significance of a recently published report by an Israeli judge may prove unwise. Read more about Is Israel preparing to annex most of West Bank? 

Katie Ramandan’s collection of photos currently on exhibition in Nazareth explores the meaning of home and the boundaries between private and public space. Read more about Stealing a moment in a stolen land: the photography of Katie Ramadan 

Just as Israel did — and still does — with Palestinians wanting to return to their homeland, thousands of desperate asylum seekers from Africa are being criminalized under the “Prevention of Infiltration law.” Read more about Bunker state cemented by new Israeli law against refugees 

It takes some chutzpah — or, at least, epic self-delusion — for Israel’s prime minister to be lecturing the Arab world on liberalism and democracy at this moment. Read more about Netanyahu shattering the myth of Israeli democracy 

There was one significant victory at the United Nations for Mahmoud Abbas, even if it was not the one he sought. Read more about The (unplanned) victory of the UN statehood bid 

The newly-passed boycott law is the latest in a series of ever-more draconian laws being introduced by Israel’s far right. The legislation’s goal is to intimidate those Israeli citizens, Jews and Palestinians, who have yet to bow down before the majority-rule mob. Read more about Israel's war on nonviolent protest 

A leading human rights activist from Israel’s Palestinian Arab minority was charged yesterday with the most serious security offenses on Israel’s statute book, including espionage. Prosecutors indicted Ameer Makhoul, the head of Ittijah, an umbrella organization for Arab human rights groups in Israel, with spying on security facilities on behalf of Hizballah after an alleged meeting with one of its agents in Denmark in 2008. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israel indicts tortured rights activist Ameer Makhoul 

Israel faces unprecedented pressure to abandon its official policy of “ambiguity” on its possession of nuclear weapons as the international community meets at the United Nations in New York this week to consider banning such arsenals from the Middle East. Jonathan Cook analyzes. Read more about Pressure mounts on nuclear Israel