By Josh ReubnerPalestineChronicle.com Today, two movements for the promotion of human rights in Sudan and Palestine seek to emulate the successful role played by boycotts, divestment, and sanctions in achieving democracy and equality in South […]

By Ben WhiteSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In the second such incident since the 2006 war, two rockets fired from within Lebanon struck Israel Monday night. The news understandably made headlines in Israel, and was featured as […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Canadians have always prided themselves on the “goodness” if not the “greatness” of their country. Sitting north of the United States, Canadians struggle with an ideal that rejects many American […]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The Israeli government is refusing to publish a report on settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian lands, fearing it could harm relations with main ally Washington. "State security, as well as protection […]

By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Freier.   In Yiddish slang terms, a freier is better known as a sucker or a fool, and this principle guides most every aspect in Israeli society even in international relations. Back in […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com In recent months, we have been inundated by media reports bringing good news from Iraq, with countless testimonials to the great improvement in security enjoyed by the country in general […]

By Ron Moore Special to PalestineChronicle.com Ron Paul has earned his reputation as “President of the Internet.” Receiving enough hits, page views, myspace friend requests and you tube views that dwarfs the other candidates, the […]

By Hasan Afif El-HasanSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com “Jews-only land policy is at issue” was the title of an article in my US town local newspaper. It is about a housing discrimination story in Israel against an […]

M. Shahid Alam Special to PalestineChronicle.com On December 27, a little more than two months after her return to Pakistan from years of exile, Benazir Bhutto was killed while leaving the grounds of Liaquat Bagh […]

By Elias AklehSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com While driving around the suburbs of Los Angeles enjoying the bright lights decorating the houses and the trees in celebration for Christmas, I could not help thinking about what kind of […]

By Janine RobertsSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com No matter what was promised in Annapolis, a Two State Solution for Israel and Palestine now seems utterly impossible, judging from what I have just seen during a 3-week visit […]

CAIRO – A US court has overturned a ruling ordering Muslim charities to compensate the family of a US teenager killed in an attack in the West Bank on alleged charges of funding terrorism, reported […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com   Mephisto, the demon who bought the soul of Faust in Goethe’s monumental drama, describes himself as "a part of that force which always wants the bad and always creates the good." […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Surrender is Not an Option – Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad. John Bolton. Simon & Schuster, Threshold Editions, New York. 2007. It is an interesting perspective, that […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com The 42-day drama in Pakistan is far from over; the declaration of emergency and the lifting of emergency are part of a charade, behind which exists a complex power play […]

By Vijay RajivaSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Since the emergence of a genuine Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the ignominious prevarications of the Abbas faction the onus is on the international community, Palestinians and their supporters to fast […]

By Nicola NasserSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Linking the “aliyah” to what the Jewish literature has been describing as Eretz Israel or Yisrael HaShleima (Greater Israel) to the Israeli colonial settlement of the Palestinian land, which the […]

By Agustin Velloso in MadridSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  Last week end (14-16 December), the Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East, one of the longest running plays in the world, was once again performed, […]

By Kim BullimoreSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Four weeks ago, Y, the brother of one of my Israeli friends was shot in the head with a rubber coated steel bullet by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). He […]

(BBC) – An Israeli human rights group says the overwhelming majority of Israeli troops suspected of criminal offences against Palestinians are never indicted. The small number of investigations and even fewer indictments showed Israel’s army […]

By John V. WhitbeckSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com   Almost two years after the most democratic elections ever held in the Arab world, as Palestinians struggle to survive in two disconnected and hostile fragments of historical Palestine, a […]

By Neve Gordon and Erez TzfadiaPalestineChronicle.com For less than four dollars an hour, the Jewish teenagers removed furniture, clothes, kitchenware and toys from the homes and loaded them on to trucks. As they worked diligently […]

To the Editor: The world has experienced yet another in the sorry sequences of a proposed peace process aimed at resolving the Palestine-Israel conflict. Many high-ranking government officials from Palestine, Israel, the United States, and […]

By Jim MilesSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Day of Empire – How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall. Amy Chua. Doubleday, New York, 2007. This work had so much anticipatory potential as Amy […]

By Mustafa Barghouthi PalestineChronicle.com As one who for decades has supported a two-state solution and the nonviolent struggle for Palestinian rights, I view the recent conference in Annapolis with a great deal of skepticism – […]

By Ramzy BaroudSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech on December 6th – in which he tried to ‘explain’ his Mormon faith – was met with a mostly sympathetic reception at George Bush […]

By Ben White PalestineChronicle.com In the UK, the Boycott campaign was launched by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) six years ago. However, it has been attempts at a boycott of Israeli academic institutions that has […]

By John V. WhitbeckSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com  In the wake of the breathtakingly brief and content-free meeting in Annapolis, there is at least the appearance of an understanding in Washington of the importance for the region […]

North American-Israeli Devorah Brous has been a social activist in Israel for fourteen years. After nine years running Bustan, a social justice and sustainability organization which works with the Bedouin community in the Negev, Brous […]

By Sherri MuzherSpecial to PalestineChronicle.com   I knew that the letters I received were typed by someone else, but the signature was his – a purple fingerprint made by placing one of his fingers on an […]