Prominent Palestinian figure and nationalist, Dr. Haidar Abdul Shafi passed away on September 25, at the age of 88 after a two-year struggle with cancer. Abdul Shafi is considered one of Palestine’s most long standing […]

By Dr. Hasan Afif El-Hasan Special to PalestineChronicle.com Madam Secretary: I am writing on behalf of the ordinary Palestinians who live in the big jails that are called the occupied lands and the three generations […]

By Joharah Baker In a move that can only be seen as the logical consequence of Israel’s decision last week to declare the Gaza Strip hostile territory, Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel’s largest banks announced […]

By Sonja KarkarPalestineChronicle.com In these days of warmongering, peace and justice are tossed about like hot potatoes with no end to the suffering in sight. But, where is the compassion for the children, women and […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The State of the American Empire – How the USA Shapes the World. Stephen Burman. University of California Press, Myriad Editions. 2007. On first perusal my perceptions told me this […]

By Stephen LendmanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Mahdi Nazemroaya writes in his August 29 "War and the ‘New World Order’ " article on Global Research.ca that war is "the ultimate (and most effective) economic shock therapy (that […]

By Sherwood Ross How large a role does the "Israeli Lobby" play in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East?Some answers may be contained in The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Farrar, Straus & […]

By Ramzy Baroud PalestineChronicle.com When one commits to the life of an active citizen, spending their hours days and years reading and writing about current events, it becomes a daily struggle to overcome the cynicism […]

By Jennifer LoewensteinPalestineChronicle.com On January 26th 1976 the United Nations Security Council debated a resolution (S11940) introduced by Jordan, Syria and Egypt that included all the crucial wording of UNSC resolution 242. It accepted the […]

By Saree Makdisi PalestineChronicle.com An entire generation of Palestinians in Gaza is growing up stunted: physically and nutritionally stunted because they are not getting enough to eat; emotionally stunted because of the pressures of living […]

By Zafarul Islam Khan NEW DELHI — Believe it or not, the Palestinian diaspora has now reached India. Abu Ali, 47, originally from Gaza, came to India from Egypt on 18 June 2006 on a […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com Today is Yom Kippur, and almost automatically my thoughts, like those of everybody else who was around at the time, go back 34 years, to that Yom Kippur. I was sitting at […]

By Roger van ZwanenbergPalestineChronicle.com About three weeks ago Pluto books and the University of Michigan Press – our US distributor – came under attack by Stand With Us (a Zionist lobby group) who were objecting […]

By Mike WhitneyPalestineChronicle.com "Give me control over a nation’s currency and I care not who makes its laws." – Baron M.A. Rothschild Wall Street loves cheap money. That’s why traders were celebrating on Tuesday when […]

By Emily SpencePalestineChronicle.com Governments come and go. Whole civilizations disappear into the sands of time and new ones rise up to take their place. In this sense, they’re all like an image of the Phoenix, […]

By Kathleen ChristisonPalestineChronicle.com A group of anti-war leaders held a conference call at the end of August under the sponsorship of Michael Lerner’s Network of Spiritual Progressives to do some long-term strategic planning for the […]

By Joharah Baker Everyone is always accusing the Palestinians of missing out on opportunities for peace. The worst Palestinian-bashing came after the Camp David summit in 2000, when late President Yasser Arafat supposedly sabotaged his […]

By Salim Nazzal Months before the public announcement of the Oslo canal as the Norwegians chose to call it, I was one among other Palestinians who met with Bassam Abu Sharif, who was visiting Oslo […]

By Joshua Frank PalestineChronicle.com Something is terribly wrong with the Congressional Black Caucus. There has been for decades. For starters the pro-black organization doesn’t represent the majority of black people in the Untied States. As […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com New York based Judith Karpova risks losing everything she has, or going to jail for a long time. Her crime? She went to Iraq in February 2003 as a Human […]

By John Pilger A state of parallel worlds determines almost everything we do and how we do it, everything we know and how we know it. The word that once described it, class, is unmentionable, […]

By Mohammed Khatib  On September 4, after nearly three years of nonviolent protests by our village of Bil’in, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Israel’s wall here must be moved further west, returning 250 acres […]

GAZA STRIP – The UN has urged Israel to reconsider its decision to declare the Gaza Strip as an "enemy entity", warning that cutting vital services would violate international law.  The Israeli move to cut […]

By Ben WhitePalestineChronicle.com Howard Jacobson is one of the most high-profile Jewish authors in Britain, having written numerous critically-acclaimed and successful comic novels. He also writes a weekly column in the liberal-leaning The Independent and […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The inter-Palestinian war of words and the mutual violations of the freedom of press and expression by the Hamas – led government of Ismael Haniyyeh in the Gaza Strip and […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Racism is, among many things, convenient. It provides simplified, definite and ready-to-serve answers to complex and compounded questions. Racists, in turn, come from all walks of life; their motivation and […]

By J.A. MillerPalestineChronicle.com  [Editor’s Note: Uri Avnery has been featured regularly at the PalestineChronicle.com since its establishment in the late 1990’s. The following criticism of Mr. Avnery is published with the hope that it would […]

By Roni Ben EfratPalestineChronicle.com After Hamas was elected, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) attempted to cooperate with it. This led Israel to claim there was no one to talk to. After Hamas took over […]

By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Is this really happening?  I sat frozen as the Orthodox priest swung the censers during the Trisagion Service.  The smell of incense filled the air and I looked passed the […]