Palestine

Buildings have been brought to the ground in Gaza, Palestine, following Israeli airstrikes since October 2023. What Israel is doing to Gaza is barbaric and unnecessary, writes Arnold Carton

Letter: Friends of Israel should be steering them away from slaughter

Letters to editor

Letter: Time to liberate Northern Ireland and historic Palestine

Letters to editor

Letter: You protect civilisation with force or you will get barbarism

Protesters outside Leinster House in Dublin, after they interrupted, parliamentary statements on recognising Palestine to call for sanctions to be imposed on Israel. The group of demonstrators, who were sitting in the public gallery, got to their feet and chanted pro-Palestinian messages

Protesters interrupt Irish Parliament calling for sanctions on Israel

Chairwoman halts proceedings in the Dail

Chaos has broken out in the Irish parliament in sitting on Israel/Palestine

Letters to editor

Letter: Recognising Palestine is minimum Ireland could do

DUP MP Ian Paisley opposes Irish recognition of a Palestinian state.

DUP: Irish recognising Palestinian state plays to extremists

Taoiseach Simon Harris speaks to the media during a press conference outside the Government Buildings, Dublin, as the Republic of Ireland recognised the state of Palestine

Ireland announces plans to formally recognise state of Palestine

Lanyon Building Queen's University Belfast. Photo: PA

Queen's University group condemns Israel - describes Hamas attack 'resistance'

Morning View

Editorial: Israel is right to fight on but also to look at the ceasefire plan

Letters to editor

Letter: Will these sectarian chants fall foul of hate laws, justice minister?

A projector beaming the words 'cease fire' onto the Cliffs of Moher (George Karbus) in relation to Gaza

Palestine protestors broadcast message on to Cliffs of Moher

10-year-old Erin Corscadden at the unveiling of the International Wall in Belfast after it was transformed into a Gaza mural

Murals by Gazan artists recreated on The International Wall on Divis Street

Belfast City Hall.

Sinn Fein rejects call to boycott St Patrick's Day White House visit

Screengrab from a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, by left wing protest group Social Rights Ireland @SocialRightsIRL apparently showing a Gaza-born protestor being removed from a Sinn Fein-run pro-Palestine meeting in Belfast. Protestors disrupted speeches at the meeting and called for Sinn Fein to boycott the annual St Patrick's Day event at the White House.

Palestinian protestors kicked out of Sinn Fein event

Letters to editor

Letter: We should have communal demonstrations
A letter from Dennis Golden:
Letters

Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins, formerly of the Royal Irish Regiment, speaks to delegates during day three of the Conservative Party Conference held at The Bournemouth International Centre, on October 6, 2004

Former British Army colonel Tim Collins says 'big fight' yet to come in Gaza

Letters to editor

Letter: Vote stance highlights lack of UK support for Israel

Image taken from councillor Gary Donnelly's Twitter feed of the protest in progress on Wednesday

Israel Nazi protest at council meeting: 'I've never seen anything like it'

A clip from the live broadcast of the council meeting

Councillors 'threatened' by masked men and Nazi banner protestors in meeting

Image posted online by UN Relief and Works Agency UNRWA today showing children amid a shanty encampment in Gaza, and warning of the spread of cholera

Gerry Carroll reacts to binning of complaint against him over Palestine comments

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald holding a gay pride rainbow flag the day after Lyra McKee was killed in Londonderry; Miss McKee, a gay activist and writer, was shot by accident when dissident republicans opened fire on police during rioting in 2019

McDonald says gay rights in Palestine 'is an issue for another day'

Screen grab taken from PA video of former prime minister David Cameron arriving at 10 Downing Street, London, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is conducting a ministerial reshuffle following the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman. Picture date: Monday November 13, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Reshuffle. Photo credit should read: Sam Hall/PA Wire

Braverman sacked as former PM returns to government

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 12th July 2023 -

Chris Heaton-Harris, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland along with Carla Lockhart MP and Margaret Tinsley, Mayor of Armagh, Banbridge Craigavon Borough Council watch the parade at Brownlow House with Orange Order officers at the County Armagh Twelfth Demonstration making itÕs way through Lurgan town centre to Brownlow House.
Eleven District Lodges were on parade, with a total of 150 Private Lodges and almost 5,000 orangemen.In addition, ladies from the Association of Loyal Orangewomen of Ireland took part, along with a number of Junior Boys and Junior Girls Lodges.The Co. Almost 70 bands will accompany the lodges and some of the finest pipe, accordion, silver and flute Bands in the country will be on parade.

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye :Lurgan 12th

Orangeman wants public clarification from Braverman

Letters to editor

Letter: Solution for Arabs, Jews, Muslims and Christians - one country

Andy McDonald, the MP for Middlesbrough, has been suspended by the Labour Party after he used the phrase “between the river and the sea” during a speech at a pro-Palestine rally at the weekend.

Labour MP suspended over speech at pro-Palestine rally

Rev Bill Shaw

Belfast-based Presbyterian minister quizzed over 'river to sea' call
A Presbyterian minister who called for Palestine "to be free from the river to the sea" has said both Jews and Arabs could learn to "share the land" together, perhaps turning it into "one single democratic state".
Adam Kula

Palestine solidary rally in Londonderry - 29 October 2023

Speaker at a pro-Palestine rally says ‘We understand living under occupation’

The PFLP flags on display last night - the original red one, and a customised Celtic one above

Flag of 'terrorist group' displayed at Glasgow Celtic vs Atletico Madrid match

SDLP councillor Paul Doherty at the Celtic game last night (note the flag of the Irish province of Ulster in the top left, alongside all the Palestinian ones)

SDLP man among those with Palestine flag at Celtic vs Atletico Madrid clash

A US Air Force transport plane on the runway of Shannon Airport in Co Clare. According to the Irish Examiner, in 2021 there was 'around one military flight landing per day' at the airport. It's likely these flights have increased with the wars in Ukraine and Israel

Letter: Nationalists silent on their connection to US empire and conquest

Celtic fans in the stands wave flags of Palestine during Wednesday's Champions League game against Atletico Madrid

Celtic fans fly Palestine flags in defiance of club plea

Queen's University Belfast

Former education minister expresses concern over push for Israel boycott

Irish President Michael D Higgins criticised European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s reaction to the Israel-Hamas conflict. “It may not have been meant to have malevolent consequences but certainly we need a better performance in relation to European Union diplomacy and practice,” Mr Higgins said

Israeli ambassador’s comments on Irish president not helpful, says minister

Letters to editor

Letter: Most attendees at pro Palestine protests support peace, not Hamas

Letters to editor

Letter: UN should help to find a peaceful Palestine-Israel solution

March For Palestine protesters outside All Souls Langham Place, near the BBC's Portland Place headquarters. (Photo by André Langlois)

Thousands gather in central London for March For Palestine protest

Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty has sent a message of hope to families who are suffering in Israel and Palestine.

TV presenter Patrick Kielty sends message of hope to Israel and Palestine

Footage circulates showing Palestinian protest at Irish language school

Palestinians celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

Live Israel in ‘state of war’ after attack from Palestinian militant group

Morning View

Editorial: The people of NI will be sending love and support to Israel

People take part in a solidarity demonstration with Israel on Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Fabian Sommer/dpa/via AP)

Sinn Fein must condemn Hamas attack, says Ian Paisley

Ryanair has apologised after a crew member announced it was landing in Palestine instead of Tel Aviv. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ryanair says sorry after crew member says Tel Aviv is in Palestine

Letter to the editor

Palestine and Yemen are suffering too – not just Ukraine

A view of the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, some of the holiest sites for for Jews and Muslims, is seen in Jerusalem's Old City, from December 2017. Picture: AP Photo/Oded Balilty

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: British troops wounded and Arab leaders’ defiant declarati...

Letter to the editor

The occupation of Palestine must end

The company is owned and managed by Hani Muhtadi who hand crafts the Hummus by Hani branded

Baladi Foods brings taste of Middle East to our doorsteps

Letter to the editor

The Israeli occupation has helped to cause the suffering of Palestinian Christia...

Letter to the editor

Republicans are pro unity yet also pro splitting and separatism

News Letter editorial

Belfast welcomes repressive China but not progressive Israel

Chaim Herzog is the longest-serving Israeli president

Giants of Israeli politics both sprang from Belfast's tiny Jewish community

An elderly Palestinian man falls on the ground after being shot by Israeli troops during a deadly protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel

Councillors to debate Palestine situation

Aftermath of IRA bomb attack in Glengall Street, Belfast in 1991. PACEMAKER BELFAST ARCHIVE 91

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NI Troubles documents among files missing from National Archives

General Edmund Allenby

Remembering the British commander who captured Jerusalem

Irish Foriegn Minister Simon Coveney. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Divided views in Dublin over Jerusalem