Groups campaigning effectively for Palestine:
The best news service we have found for reporting on Palestine is https://english.almayadeen.net/news#
Another very good news service is https://www.palestinechronicle.com/
The best groups campaigning for Palestine are:
Palestine Online
Keep up to date by the minute with what is happening. Defending Palestine and exposing Israel. Watch Palestine Online (or Felesteen online) but you will need a “Translate from Arabic” add-on (which you can download free) on your browser to read it – see it at https://felesteen.news/
Friends of Al-Aqsa
Muslim network in the UK committed to seeing peace in Palestine. Anyone can join at www.foa.org.uk
Britain Palestine Project
Educating us towards peace, justice and equal rights in Palestine/Israel through a weekly programme of Zoom talks and occasional public events. Sign up at www.britainpalestineproject.org
If Americans Knew: Israel-Palestine News
Enlightening articles from the the USA on what is really going on with Israeli machinations on the international stage. For examples, read International campaign is criminalizing criticism of Israel as ‘antisemitism’ (israelpalestinenews.org) and The Israel partisan who funded Democrats’ midterm races
Countries that support Palestine
The strongest supporters are Qatar, Kuwait, Algeria, Pakistan, Ireland, Indonesia, Sweden, South Africa, Iran, China, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Russia, Spain, South Africa and Turkey. Jordan too, for it is virtually at one with Palestine.
On the 24th September 2026, Israel counted 77 countries absent from Netanyahu’s UN speech after the mass walkout. during his address to the 81st UN General Assembly- among them Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey- some in protest, others by absence. The walkout of the assembly hall was organised by a Palestinian representative who said that they wanted to “send a clear message to Netanyahu and his government that no one is willing to aid, abet, or be complicit in its genocide and war crimes and illegal occupation, which all peace-loving states and peoples demand must come to an end”.
In response to the walkout, Netanyahu said: “If there are any other moral cowards who haven’t left the hall, please do so now.”
The countries that walked out or were absent were (according to Israel):
- Suriname
- Tuvalu
- Turkmenistan
- Yemen
- Egypt
- Panama
- Senegal
- Palestine
- Sudan
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Venezuela
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Belize
- Republic of the Congo
- Oman
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Tonga
- Uzbekistan
- Angola
- Barbados
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Dominica
- Djibouti
- North Macedonia
- San Marino
- South Africa
- Somalia
- Algeria
- Bangladesh
- Brunei Darussalam
- Brazil
- Chile
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Eritrea
- Chad
- Central African Republic
- Libya
- Mauritania
- Jordan
- Nicaragua
- Madagascar
- Niger
- Peru
- Saint Lucia
- Slovenia
- Afghanistan
- Bahamas
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- North Korea
- Eswatini
- Syria
- Uganda
- Pakistan
- Lesotho
- Bolivia
- Spain
- Cuba
- Equatorial Guinea
- Iran
- Kyrgyzstan
- Iraq
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Ireland
- Maldives
- Indonesia
- Kuwait
- Namibia
- Malaysia
- Guyana
- Kenya
The ones that remained?
Based on reporting from the Palestine Chronicle and corroborated by other outlets, at least 24 countries were identified as remaining in the hall during Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the 81st UN General Assembly. Countries confirmed to have stayed during Netanyahu’s 2026 UNGA speech include the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Japan, UAE, Bahrain, Italy, Serbia, Morocco, India, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Argentina, Paraguay, Ethiopia, Finland, Guinea‑Bissau, and Guinea. Among the countries whose representatives were identified as remaining in the hall were:
- Israel
- Italy
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guinea
- United States
- United Arab Emirates
- Serbia
- Morocco
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- France
- Canada
- Australia
- Japan
- Ukraine
- Argentina
- Paraguay
- Bahrain
- India
- South Korea
- Philippines
- Thailand
The list includes several of Israel’s principal Western allies, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada and Australia. The UAE and Bahrain, which normalized relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords, were also represented in the chamber.
More on this at https://ericrubin54.substack.com/p/the-uns-boycott-of-netanyahu-a-global
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Following Israel’s announcement of its controversial E1 project, which would prevent a 2-state solution, the following countries introduced sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank in September 2026:
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
These countries have announced plans to impose restrictions on trade in goods from Israeli settlements, which they describe as illegal under international law.
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(also see 10-minute video 10 Powerful Countries That Support Palestine – which includes India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia!) (Though Egypt and Saudi Arabia appear to have cut support for Israel, following their having walked out of Netanyahu’s address in Sept 2026)
140 states recognise the State of Palestine, most recently Mexico. As Victor Kattan notes in There is no legal impediment to Australia’s recognition of Palestine – ABC Religion & Ethics, “It is worth noting that Mexico does not recognise states in the form of a public statement; its practice is to establish state-to-state relations with reciprocal embassies.) Accordingly, more than 70 per cent of UN member states accept that the constitutive approach to recognition continues to play an important role in international politics. The states that accept this approach and recognise Palestine include most of eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as Iceland (one of NATO’s oldest members), Sweden, and the Vatican.”
Norway recently proposed a one-state solution- which was the original PLO objective; see Norway says ‘one state with equal rights for all’ is solution to Israel-Palestine conflict (newarab.com)
39 UN member states rejected the Israeli government’s punitive measures following the ICJ request: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan (as Chair of OIC), Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland signed.
In terms of ethnicities: Whole Indian Muslims, Yemenis Arabs, Iranian, Turkish, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indonesians, Malaysians, East Asian Muslims, Gulf Arabs, African Muslims, European Muslims, American Muslims stand with Palestine.
76% of Arabs believe that the Palestinian cause is not the cause of the Palestinians alone but the cause of all Arabs, according to the Arab Opinion Index 2022.
Those countries that don’t support Palestine (ie they don’t recognise it as a state) are predominantly colonising states and those where Europeans have eradicated the indigenous peoples. They include: USA, France, Switzerland, Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Holland and Austria. See https://youtu.be/T5daRAu4mrU (The video does not mention the UK, which created Israel, and does not recognise Palestine as a state). (For an insight into EU thinking, see German President of the EU at https://fb.watch/nj5yy4v4WF/ ). In a mark of progress, in October 2022, Australia quietly dropped its recognition of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, unwinding language adopted by Scott Morrison’s government after the US moved its own embassy from ‘Tel Aviv’, the Guardian reported. In August 2023 it went further: Australia’s decision to again use the term ‘occupied Palestinian territories’ brings it into line with international law (theconversation.com)
In December 2023, the UN had a vote on a ceasefire for Gaza; 10 countries voted against:
Al Qaeda- Osama Bin Laden declared that the injustice of Palestine was what radicalised him- see Full text: bin Laden’s ‘letter to America’ | World news | The Guardian (archive.ph)