Irish citizens are already ashamed of Israel and inaction, Taoiseach
Micheál Martin needs to act now and use his current position in the EU
Palestine
Do Jewish lives not count?
If we’re going to display images of Palestinian victims, can we also include the victims of the October 7th attack?
Hecht off – Frank McNally on the testing testimony of a brilliant newspaper man
New York-born journalist and author set bar rather high for those who followed
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest
‘They left us with nothing,’ says owner of olive grove in West Bank
Martin and Mamdani call bingo numbers and smile for the cameras in heart of Irish New York
Mayor bats away offer from marijuana dispensary as Taoiseach explains the Subway’s Cork connection
Supporters urge Spanish PM to spurn US request for extradition of Palestine aid donor
Wealthy activist Fergie Chambers arrested in Ibiza last July after extradition request
Irish footballers should abandon match against ‘baby killers’, TD tells Dáil
Paul Murphy calls on team to ‘do the right thing’ by refusing to fulfil Israel fixture on Sunday
Our casual cruelty towards some gifted Gazan students
When it comes to backing up what it says with deeds, the Government is found wanting
Netanyahu says he will use UN address to ‘tell the truth about’ New York mayor
Zohran Mamdani brushed off the remarks, saying the Israeli prime minister is ‘the architect of horrific genocide against Palestinians’
FAI should do its job and cancel the Ireland-Israel football matches
We will not sing in Eurovision because of Israel, but we will play them at football
At the ‘Art Olympics’ in Venice, the horrors of Gaza have not been forgotten
Prize jury of the Venice Biennale resigned before the doors opened in a protest over the participation of Russia and Israel
Israel’s settlement policy is designed to bury the idea of a two-state solution
Netanyahu boasted in 2025 that ‘we are going to fulfil our promise that there will be no Palestinian state.’
The Ed Sheeran controversy made Irish artists the biggest in the world
Until now, there has been a perception and reality that speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Palestine will hurt the bottom line
‘We came to the best place on earth. Irish people have been so generous to Palestine’
Izzedeen Alkarajeh runs Café Izz in Cork city, serving authentic Palestinian food, with his wife Eman
Can anyone end the Netanyahu era?
An Arab party could decide Israel’s future – with a new deputy who is a Jewish lawmaker and paratrooper
‘We have skin in the game’: TD backs ‘half Irish’ Macklemore after Sheeran ditching
Plus: National Library seeks a Deputy Chief Herald, Phil Hogan tours East Africa as he bids for UN job, Marty Whelan honoured to be honoured
New poetry: ‘The most horrifying, exquisite and staggering poems I have ever read’
Mícheál McCann reviews Milk & Moon-water by Milena Williamson; Real Estate by Mark Ward; Landscape with Question by Leeanne Quinn; and 48kg by Batool Abu Akleen
‘A maelstrom of his own making’: how Ed Sheeran’s tour turned into a moment of reckoning
‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from US billionaire
British government ‘not in position’ to move on Border poll, says Taoiseach
Taoiseach thanks Andy Burnham for ‘standing’ up for needs and rights of Palestinian people
Macklemore to donate $1 million from Ed Sheeran tour to Palestinian charities
He invited Robert Kraft, who asked Sheeran to drop the rapper from the tour, to match his donation
Ed Sheeran controversy: How his North American tour has ended up in crisis
Were Sheeran to cancel the tour, the total economic loss is estimated to be anywhere from $60-$100 million
Children among at least 21 killed as damaged building collapses in Gaza
Nearly 100 people believed to be trapped under rubble
Disputed lands of West Bank have a long history
Co-existence through negotiation and dialogue is the only way forward
Airbnb and the Palestinian people
Company is a target for BDS campaign and a huge driver of Ireland’s housing crisis
Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga quit Ed Sheeran’s US tour in protest over Palestine
Macklemore was previously removed from the tour after saying ‘Free Palestine’ at a concert in New Jersey
Fiction in translation: Hafni Says by Danish writer Helle Helle is close to perfection
Plus new works by Pirkko Saisio, Felix Hartlaub, Karim Kattan and Angélica Gorodischer
We need leaders with the courage of a Kennedy or a de Gaulle
Contrast their bravery with the behaviour of the Irish Government, which has refused visas to 97 Palestinian students, makes excuses about Aughinish and will today welcome a convicted felon
There is still time for Government to re-evaluate stance on Gaza students
Both inhumane and retrogressive to refuse these visas
EU should treat Israeli settlements like Russian-occupied Crimea, says bloc’s top diplomat
Kaja Kallas tells The Irish Times an EU-wide Occupied Territories trade ban would be ‘principled’ stand
Kaja Kallas: EU ban on Israeli settlement trade would be ‘principled stance’
Bloc’s most senior foreign policy official said move does not require unanimous support of all 27 member states
Kenny Cunningham’s comments are at odds with public sentiment
Irish football supporters would not support pundit’s stance on Israel game
What now for the Israel flags flying across the North?
Some of the complaints heard from Israel this week have been of British colonial arrogance. This tired cliche misses the point
Why is Israel’s E1 settlement plan in West Bank so controversial?
Project is designed to ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’, far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich has said
Israel closes UK consulate over West Bank sanctions row
British foreign secretary says ‘settler terrorists’ have carried out ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Palestinian territories
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