UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is fond of stating “There is no Plan B” to emphasise the refusal to veer away from the two-state paradigm, over which there is international consensus. Yet Israeli colonialism in Palestine has rendered the two-state framework defunct. “Israel was established against a historical trend of mass …

In May, an investigation into the 1948 massacre of a Palestinian village carried out by Zionist militias revealed the locations of several new mass graves. The first-of-its-kind study has corroborated survivors’ testimonies and challenges longstanding Israeli denial of the killings. The investigation, carried out by human-rights-focused research group, Forensic Architecture, …

What lies behind Riyadh’s recent spate of diplomatic initiatives – and how likely are they to succeed? Over the past few months, Saudi Arabia has attracted international attention with one diplomatic initiative after another – from its beginning of normalisation with Iran, to peace talks with the Yemeni Houthis, to …