Israel can't be both a Jewish and a democratic state and new Apartheid laws will not resolve the moral crisis that is at the core of Israeli politics.

No Israeli leader is either prepared or able to reach a peace deal – unless, that is, the Palestinians cave in to almost every Israeli demand.

Palestine Papers reveal beyond dispute that Israel has never been interested in peace with the Palestinians.

Jonathan Pollak, from an Israeli group called Anarchists against the Wall, which demonstrates with Palestinian activists in the occupied territories. "I have no doubt that what we did was right," he says, "and if anything, not sufficient considering what is being done in our name."

The Israeli-imposed, Egyptian-enforced siege of the Gaza Strip, plunges 1.5 million people into a desperate and isolated existence, but, says Jody McIntyre, the Palestinian people in Gaza are not objects of an isolated humanitarian cause, but partners in the struggle for justice and freedom throughout Palestine.
Video: Protest at Israeli Embassy on 27 December 2010...

Gaza's people die slowly, its children are malnourished, its water contaminated, and yet not even a word of sympathy from the US President.

1,500 Palestinian minors, some as young as seven, have been arrested in East Jerusalem in the past year, as Israeli police ride roughshod over children's legal rights.

Olive groves cultivated by Palestinians for thousands of years are under systematic attack by Israeli settlers who burn and cut down the trees or strip them of fruit.

Award winning film director Mike Leigh cancels his trip to Israel: "I have absolutely no choice. I cannot come, I do not want to come, and I am not coming."

'It's very hard to talk about Palestine to Jewish people – they see me as a betrayer,' says actor Miriam Margolyes, recently returned from Palestine.

Israel's moratorium on new settlements was always a sham, no less than the farcical "peace process" it was supposed to help make progress.

UN says Israel guilty of war crimes when it attacked the Gaza aid flotilla on 31 May 2010. UN call for sanctions to follow? Don't hold your breath.

Palestinians from besieged Gaza call on folk music icon Pete Seeger not to legitimise apartheid by performing in an online concert organised by Israeli ethnic cleansers.

The Israel boycott has seen unprecedented growth after the onslaught on Gaza and the attack on the flotilla. People of conscience round the world have crossed a threshold.

The already alarming levels of racism in Israel are on the increase, and the demand for proof of loyalty is no longer confined to Palestinian citizens, but directed at Jewish ones, too.

Unlike many other performers, ex-Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten is happy to play in a country that violates countless international laws and is guilty of crimes against humanity in Gaza.