By Ron ForthoferSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Six-Day War, an event that dramatically changed the Middle East. As a result of the war, Israel occupied Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian […]

Israeli ministers on Sunday voiced concern over two initiatives in Britain to boycott Israeli universities and sanction trade with the Jewish state because of its policies towards Palestinians. "This is an extremely worrying issue," Trade […]

By Robert Jensen PalestineChronicle.com When I read Steven Weinberg’s assertion that those supporting a boycott of Israel suffer from a "moral blindness" that could only be explained by anti-Semitism, I wondered how he squared that […]

By Zahi Khouri PalestineChronicle.com ‘I don’t know what I would do if my daughter had to go through that humiliation.” A U.S. congressman said those words to me while watching Qalandia checkpoint, the key Israeli […]

Reviewed by Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Freedom Next Time – Resisting the Empire.  John Pilger.  Nation Books, New York, 2007.  John Pilger is one of the foremost journalists today who, in the current vernacular, ‘walks […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Probably no word better defines or underscores the Bush presidency than "terrorism" even though his administration wasn’t the first to exploit this highly charged term.  We use to explain what […]

Dear editor: I just briefly glance at CNN…Israelis have arrested 30 members of a democratically elected government whose only “violation” was to condone rocket attacks against a nation which daily raids their houses and territory […]

By Aijaz Zaka SyedPalestineChronicle.com Lebanon is no stranger to conflicts. Especially those involving the Palestinians. But as my hero Robert Fisk, offering another ringside view of another war in the Middle East says, there is […]

By Matthew Wagner All civilians living in Gaza are collectively guilty for Kassam attacks on Sderot, former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has written in a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Eliyahu ruled that […]

By Ali AbunimahElectronicIntifada.net  Yesterday I wrote a piece entitled "Israel’s House of Horrors" about the openly murderous statements of Israeli cabinet ministers. Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, I read a news article […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com South Africa’s Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils whispered to me as I sat down following a most enthusiastic speech I gave at a recent conference in Cape Town: "if you want the world […]

By Kathy KellySpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Earlier this week, the American Friends Service Committee asked me to speak about finding hope in hard times as part of an interfaith service to conclude their "Eyes Wide Open" […]

By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent Britain’s University and College Union (UCU) voted Wednesday to promote a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, protesting Israel’s policy on the Palestinians. Jewish and Israeli officials in the United Kingdom […]

By Joshua Frank PalestineChronicle.com Alexander Cockburn has been making waves with his recent series on global warming, which has been published in The Nation and online at CounterPunch.org where he serves as co-editor (and I […]

By Saree Makdisi PalestineChronicle.com This month marks the fortieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem . Four decades of control established and maintained by force of arms–in […]

By James Petras PalestineChronicle.com China’s Billionaires China’s billionaires, twenty in number, unlike India’s, are on average younger, have less advanced educational degrees, were almost all educated in China and only 10% (2) inherited wealth.  Sixty-five […]