Will Labour unity break over the Israel-Hamas war?
More than 20 councillors have resigned and 150 have petitioned the party leadership.
Gaza
Keir Starmer under pressure as senior Labour figures back Gaza ceasefire
Andy Burnham, Sadiq Khan and Anas Sarwar have all publicly opposed the Labour leader’s position.
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Israel’s past approach to Hamas failed, says ambassador
Tzipi Hotovely says Hamas is barbarous and must be destroyed. But why did Israel allow it to grow stronger?
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The Labour revolt over Keir Starmer’s Gaza policy is spreading
Shadow cabinet ministers have privately warned that the party risks losing Muslim voters if it appears callous.
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Cutting through the fog of war
In an age of fake news, wartime leaders understand that they now have to fight against disinformation and conspiracies too.
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Antony Blinken and the limits of American diplomacy
The US risks being drawn into a Middle East war it does not want to fight.
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Bring them home
At a London rally in support of Israel over the weekend fear was palpable – but so was the defiance.
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Was Israel wrong to trust Qatar?
Doha hosts Hamas as part of a cynical geopolitical game.
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The deadly logic of existential war
Warnings that the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict could become a genocide should be heeded.
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Will Israel launch a ground invasion?
Urban warfare is hard and it’s unclear what Israeli forces would be able to achieve.
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Kenneth Roth: we should be conservative about accusations of genocide
The former head of Human Rights Watch on Israel and Hamas, the hospital blast and war crimes.
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Anatomy of a disaster
How a rush to report on the hospital blast in Gaza led Joe Biden’s Middle East summit to collapse within…
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Who is to blame?
It is a moral catastrophe that people refuse to consider the circumstances of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Can Keir Starmer hold Labour together on Israel?
Party insiders believe Starmer should have taken a more balanced approach in his early interviews.
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Letter from Gaza: “What we have witnessed has never been seen before”
I have seen children writing their names on the palms of their hands. When they die, they want people to…
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PMQs today: Keir Starmer reaches a careful balance on Israel
The Labour leader is seeking to draw attention to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Gaza without reopening old divides.
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Letter of the week: Changing the future in the Middle East
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The EU is the “illusory giant” of geopolitics
Despite its wealth and ambition, the European Union is limited as an actor in the great conflicts of our time.
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The Middle East on the brink
This is a perilous moment for the world. Western leaders must be clear-eyed about the potential scale of this conflict.
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Sinn Féin sees false equivalence in Palestine
Northern Ireland is nothing like Gaza. If the party wins power it will have to learn that.
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