Israel has postponed all strategic dialogue with Britain in protest at a law which allows UK courts to prosecute visiting Israeli officials for alleged war crimes. Strategic dialogue between the two countries takes place annually […]
By Abbas Naqvi The recent attacks by Israel on the humanitarian Flotilla is yet another signal for us, as citizens of the United States, to hold the Israeli regime accountable for its reckless and illegal […]
By Neve Gordon – Israel Would Meryl Streep, Spike Lee, Tim Robbins or Susan Sarandon be willing to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States and its policies in order to receive public […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London In his recent pep-talk to the Anti-Defamation League, media magnate Rupert Murdoch complains about "an ongoing war against the Jews." He seems desperate to divert attention from the mounting resentment […]
The Israeli army has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Gaza Strip, which has left one Palestinian dead and four others injured. Resuming its ‘targeted killings’ in the Gaza Strip, the army said in […]
A future round of Israeli warfare would entail its forces attacking geographically-separate areas and is intended to be of massive scale and lethality, a senior Israeli military official says. The head of the Israeli Military […]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has claimed that talks with the Palestinian Authority (PA) will move forward following the midterm elections in the United States. "There are elections in the US today (Tuesday), and I […]
A military court in Lebanon has handed death sentences to three men who were found guilty of spying for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad. The three were convicted of giving sensitive information to Mossad, repeatedly […]
By Seraj Assi On October 29, 1956, the Israel Border Police (Magav) announced a sudden curfew on the village of Kufur Qasim located on the Israeli side of the Green Line. Colonel Yiskhar Shadmi, then […]
By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. A recent meeting in Vatican of some 200 Catholic bishops, mainly from the Arab world, will very likely go down in history for adopting the strongest condemnation by Christian […]
By Tapani Lausti (Ramzy Baroud, My Father was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. Pluto Press 2010.) It is hard to finish reading this book without tears in one’s eyes. Mohammed Baroud’s life story, as told […]
LONDON (IRIN) – The first day of the Palestinian olive harvest officially began about two weeks ago, on 15 October, and Rani Ali and his family – like hundreds of others – were out among […]
The UN-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 killing of statesman Rafiq al-Hariri has accused Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese political group, of attempting to obstruct justice by calling on Lebanese to halt co-operation with the inquiry. Antonio […]
By Yves Engler Ten days ago, Greg Selinger, the New Democratic Party (NDP) Premier of the Province of Manitoba, and two of his ministers visited Israel. Among other things, the official delegation strengthened the longtime […]
Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar has dismissed indication by media reports of a change in the Islamic movement’s stance toward anti-Israeli resistance. The London-based al-Hayat daily newspaper published an article, citing the Hamas leader as […]
Israel refuses to reveal neither the name nor the face of the military bulldozer driver who crushed pro-Palestinian US activist Rachel Corrie to her early death. The third session of a hearing into the March […]
A new study has revealed that Israeli settlers have intensified acts of violence against Palestinian children over the past two years. The study conducted by Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI) said on Monday that it […]
By Dr. Elias Akleh Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank face waves after waves of Israeli terror campaigns throughout the year. These terror waves are committed by Israeli extremist settlers (colonizers) as well as […]
By Susan Abulhawa I received a lovely letter from a reader who identified herself as a Jewish American. To preserve her anonymity, I’ll call her ‘Sally’. She wrote that she loved Mornings in Jenin, even […]
JERUSALEM – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, is launching a new multimedia micro-site to highlight the plight of some five million registered Palestine refugees. The campaign, called “Peace Starts Here”, is being […]
An Israeli commander has confessed to crimes committed by the Israeli army during the 22-day onslaught on the Gaza Strip, a report says. Colonel Ilan Malka, who headed the Givati Brigade during the December 2008-January […]
(Editor’s Note: The following is the text of a speech delivered on October 22, 2010 in Washington by Kathleen Christison at the annual meeting of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) on the subject […]
The security personnel of an Israeli airline have humiliated an American professor, asking her to remove her clothing and board the plane with no luggage. Professor Heather Bradshaw, a neuroscience researcher at Indiana University, was […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara This turning point has arrived quietly, no fanfare or advance warning signifying its importance. After 62 years there is nothing left to talk about with Israel. Finally, all possibilities have […]
Tel Aviv has asked Israelis not to visit Turkey after Ankara put Israel’s name back in The Red Book, a security document which lists the country’s "enemies." "Our citizens have nothing to do in Turkey," […]
By Uri Avnery – Israel I was surprised when, towards the end of 1975, I received an invitation from the Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, to meet him at his residence. He opened the door himself, […]
Democratically elected Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has ruled out the likelihood of another Israeli offensive against the blockaded Gaza Strip in the near future. "I don’t think that there is a war knocking at […]
By Sam Bahour Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will most likely cut a ribbon; a handful of government officials will be jockeying for camera time to claim economic leadership; major multinationals will compete to get […]
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced a recent attack by Israeli settlers against a church in western al-Quds (Jerusalem). The group said in a statement on Saturday that the crime was reminiscent of the Israeli […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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