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Opinion: Ethnic Cleansing and Collective Forgetfulness

January 23, 2024January 24, 2024 By Mar Mengual Gonzalez

Following the impressive and multitudinous march organised by the Exeter Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) last Saturday, which drew the largest crowd on the

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COP28 Host UAE Reveals Controversial Plan to Increase Oil Production

December 5, 2023December 5, 2023 By Maya Perera

This weekend, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the host country for the upcoming COP28, announced that it is planning on significantly increasing its

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50 Years Later – The Aftermath of the Arab Oil Embargo

November 1, 2023November 2, 2023 By Aarushi Shrivastav

The Arab oil embargo was a six-month reduction in the trade of oil from the Middle East, led by Saudi Arabia against countries that supported

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Mistreatment of Detained Palestinians

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 By Lauren Taylor

According to The United Nations Convention against Torture (UNCAT) – to which Israel is a State party – torture is defined as “any

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Opinion: Israel’s Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 By Lauren Taylor

Israeli citizen Shahar Perets, 19, was recently jailed for the third time for repeatedly refusing to join the Israeli military, the Israel Defense

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Opinion: Israeli Election 2021: Six months on – Part 2

November 5, 2021 By Will Grosse

After my last piece for the Witness, I had planned this week to detail the Israeli government’s actions throughout the Summer and into

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Israel claims human rights groups are terrorist organisations

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 By Lauren Taylor

On the 19th of October, the Israeli government labelled six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations, claiming that they have “undercover links

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Opinion: Palestine, Apartheid and Online Activism

October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 By Lauren Taylor

There is nothing quite as divisive as talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is perhaps why many people do not explicitly voice their

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