Arsen Ostrovsky

Arsen Ostrovsky is an Israeli-based international human rights lawyer and Middle East foreign policy analyst

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Close the UK and French consulates in Jerusalem or admit recognition was a sham

London and Paris can’t recognise a Palestinian state while running a mission to the Palestinians in Israel’s capital. It’s a breach of the law and the Oslo Accords and Israel should shut them down if necessary

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View of the British consulate in Jerusalem, August 16, 2024 (Image: Flash90)

Fighters from Bedouin tribes gather near a burning building in the Druze village of al-Mazraa in Syria's southern Sweida governorate (Image: Getty)

The massacre of the Druze is a moral test: Israel acted, the world failed

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US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on April 07, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

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International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan (Image: Getty)

Why the UK must demand Karim Khan’s resignation

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The UK can’t back human rights and Qatar

As it did against Russia, the Starmer government ought to initiate an inquiry into funding from Doha

3 min read

April 7, 2025 10:22

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) speaks with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (L) during a meeting at 10 Downing Street on December 4, 2024

The ICC has perverted the very meaning of justice

The UK should withdraw its funding of the court rather than underwriting this perversion of justice

2 min read

May 21, 2024 11:04

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant (left) at the Knesset after the ICC's chief prosecutor applied for an arrest warrant for him (Photo by OREN BEN HAKOON/AFP via Getty Images)

The UN must dismiss its 'Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories’

Francesca Albanese is incapable of calling out terrorism against Israel

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April 24, 2023 11:27

The UN must dismiss its 'Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories’

Where is the outrage over Hamas's rockets?

Arsen Ostrovsky slams Britain and the global community for the "deafening silence" on this week's rockets from Gaza

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June 20, 2018 09:57

Where is the outrage over Hamas's rockets?

The violence in Gaza was an  orchestrated campaign

It is important to put a few things in context about last week's 'Great Return March'

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April 4, 2018 15:18

The violence in Gaza was an  orchestrated campaign

Tamimi is no saint and has provoked the IDF before

The Palestinian teenager indicted after slapping Israeli soldiers in the West Bank is being encouraged by her family

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January 3, 2018 10:42

Tamimi is no saint and has provoked the IDF before

Arsen Ostrovsky

Latest from Arsen Ostrovsky

Close the UK and French consulates in Jerusalem or admit recognition was a sham

The massacre of the Druze is a moral test: Israel acted, the world failed

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

Why the UK must demand Karim Khan’s resignation

More from Arsen Ostrovsky

The UK can’t back human rights and Qatar

The ICC has perverted the very meaning of justice

The UN must dismiss its 'Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories’

Where is the outrage over Hamas's rockets?

The violence in Gaza was an orchestrated campaign

Tamimi is no saint and has provoked the IDF before

The violence in Gaza was an  orchestrated campaign