Tony Klug

Tony Klug has written extensively about Israeli-Palestinian issues since the early 1970s. His doctoral thesis was on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank between the wars of 1967 and 1973. For many years he was a senior official at Amnesty International, where he headed the International Development programme. Currently, he is a special advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Research Group and serves as a consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group and the Israel Strategic Forum.

Endless strife: the Israel-Palestine conflict and the international media

Adaptation of a talk at the International Media Seminar on Peace in the Middle East, Vienna, hosted by the UN Special Information Programme on the Question of Palestine, 5-6 October 2017.

By Tony Klug

/ 11 Oct 2017

Antisemitism: the Middle East connection

The basis of Palestinian opposition to Israel’s actions has little to do with it being a Jewish state. Had it been a Hindu or a Buddhist state, the Palestinians would have been no less embittered. This article was a submission to the UK Parliamentary report into antisemitism emanating from the Mid

By Tony Klug

/ 5 Mar 2015

Time to end the ambiguity

Israel needs to decide, once and for all: is this an occupation or not?

By Tony Klug

/ 6 Dec 2014

Palestinian game-changer: the ultimate act of resistance

A call for political leadership.

By Sam Bahour and Tony Klug

/ 13 Aug 2014

Israel/Palestine: trapped by our own narratives?

This tragic historic clash - the product of centuries of virulent European antisemitism at home and rampant imperialism abroad, crowned by double or, in this case, treble dealings - is the root of the conflict. Almost everything else has been grafted on retrospectively.

By Tony Klug

/ 22 Dec 2013

Will the Arab Peace Initiative rescue the two-state imperative?

Once the principles of the API were elaborated, 55% of the Israelis interviewed said they would support it to some degree, a figure that climbed to 69% if Prime Minister Netanyahu accepted it and reached a final status agreement with the Arab states.

By Tony Klug

/ 24 Jun 2013

Obama in the footsteps of Sadat

The echoes are unmistakable. So if history is repeating itself – is it worse than a waste of time? Or a lot smarter than the commentators suggest?

By Tony Klug

/ 11 Apr 2013

The Saudi-Syria-Iran-Israel-Palestine nexus

The toxins of the Israel-Palestine conflict continue to spill into a region that with difficulty and with setbacks is striving to embark on a new future.

By Tony Klug

/ 29 Mar 2012

The two-state solution: where next?

As a series of abstentions, including those of Britain, France, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, leave Palestine with eight confirmed votes in favour of UN recognition – just short of the nine needed to sway the 15-nation UN Security Council – the author argues that there is no win-lose or lose-win scenari

By Tony Klug

/ 6 Nov 2011

Bonfire of the experts: the Arab uprisings and the Israeli-Palestinian question

We need to understand that patience on the Palestinian side has almost completely run out after many fruitless years of aimless negotiations and feeble international mediation. The Palestinians – exasperated by US reluctance or impotence - see the shelf-life of the long-running but deeply flawed p

By Tony Klug

/ 1 Jun 2011

Israel-Palestine: a man, a plan, and an outcome

"We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now" - Martin Luther King A succession of flawed peace initiatives has left the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the verge of

By Tony Klug

/ 29 Jul 2009

Two states for two peoples: solution or illusion?

Is it already too late for the "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Is a "one-state solution" the realistic as well as alluring alternative, where the

By Tony Klug

/ 21 Jul 2008