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Opinion: Why Trump’s Idea of Gaza as the New Middle Eastern Riviera Is an Extremely Dangerous Suggestion

March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 By Cordelia Moore

“Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing it, and creating thousands of jobs.

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Safe and Sound: Students Lead Music Event for Humanitarian Aid in Palestine and Lebanon

December 8, 2024December 9, 2024 By Elizabeth Strassheim

In response to the humanitarian crises in Palestine and Lebanon, Exeter students organised Safe and Sound, a music event dedicated to raising funds and

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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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Opinion: Behind the Ongoing Conflict Between Israel and Gaza

November 5, 2023November 6, 2023 By Tara Singh

After Hamas gunmen assaulted Israel from the Gaza Strip on 7 October, killing and injuring many, Israel retaliated and destroyed what was once

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Cost of Living and Rising Geopolitical Tensions: What is the Future? 

October 20, 2023November 1, 2023 By Charlotte Aspinall

The cost of living has been rising in the past year with the increase food and energy prices, which has had a noticeable

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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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