By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Jaba checkpoint is a great example of the deep connection between the infliction of the checkpoint regime in the West Bank on the Palestinian population, and the effort […]
By Clive Hambidge The UN Cultural organisation (UNESCO) voted strongly in favour of membership for the Palestinians. A vote opposed by Israel. There were 173 countries that voted, 107 in favour, 14 opposing and 52 […]
The Palestinian leadership remains "determined" to pursue UN membership even though its bid has hit deadlock at the UN Security Council, its UN envoy has said. Riyad Mansour said the Palestinian leadership would "quickly" decide […]
By Ben Lorber – ISM, West Bank The upcoming Freedom Rides has tethered itself very tenuously to an event in the past, and has thereby taken a stand in a historical legacy that leaves itself […]
Palestinian activists will attempt to board Israeli buses in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday in an action inspired by the American civil rights movement. "Palestinian activists will reenact the US Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom […]
By Ludwig Watzal (Francis A. Boyle, The Palestinian Right of Return under International Law, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA, 2011, 134 pp.) According to U. N. General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) of December 11, 1948, the […]
(The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Cape Town Session. Summary of Findings, November 07, 2011) The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) is an international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience created in response to the demands of civil […]
By Uri Avnery ‘You can lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all […]
A nephew of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says the family will soon release a French medical report revealing Arafat’s cause of death. Naser al-Qudwa says the document is being translated from French before […]
Britain has said that it will abstain from voting if Palestine’s application for full-membership at the UN was taken up in the UN Security Council. William Hague, the British foreign secretary, said on Wednesday that […]
An Israeli court has upheld the seven-year prison sentence for former President Moshe Katsav who has been convicted of rape and sexual harassment charges. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the Israeli regime rejected Katsav’s […]
By Stuart Littlewood Media reports suggest that Britain will again betray the Palestinian people in the UN vote tomorrow on whether to recognise the Palestinian territories as an independent state. The Guardian, for example, says […]
Interview by Jonathan Reynolds Q: For a work of geopolitical history, I found the book a real ‘page-turner’. A: Thanks. It’s gratifying that this came across. So much of the critique of imperialism is depressing […]
A Hamas leader said Wednesday that more female detainees in Israeli prisons would be released as part of an exchange deal initiated last month. Saleh Arouri told the Hamas-affiliated Risala newspaper in Gaza that the […]
Jewish settlers have set ablaze three Palestinian cars overnight in the West Bank village of Beit Omar near al-Khalil (Hebron). Vandals also sprayed Hebrew graffiti on a house which reads "price tag" and "greetings from […]
By James Petras After nearly 3 years in deep pursuit of the colonial wars initiated by ex-President Bush, the Obama regime has finally recognized the catastrophic domestic and foreign consequences. As a result the “reality […]
By Mohannad El-Khairy Achieving much needed international recognition of Palestine’s right to exist on one hand, and potentially sealing the disenfranchisement of Palestinian rights, particularly those of state-less refugees, on the other. It’s like being […]
By Tariq Shadid The past years have seen a rise in non-violent activism against the Israeli occupation and against the blockade of Gaza. It is quite important to realize that the success or failure of […]
A leaked conversation between US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy suggests both are tired of dealing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A number of journalists overheard the private chat […]
An Australian man is among the detained passengers on board two boats carrying humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip that were intercepted by Israeli naval forces on Friday. Michael Coleman, 35, was one of […]
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak has dismissed as "delusional" recent reports regarding the increasing possibility of Tel Aviv launching a military strike against Iran. “Israel had not yet decided to […]
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine has found that Israel’s practices against the Palestinian people are in violation of the prohibition of apartheid under the international law. After two days of proceedings, the Tribunal and its […]
By Stuart Littlewood You can read about it on a British government website. ‘The UK and many other countries have serious concerns about the Iranian Government’s policies,’ says the Foreign Office, ‘its failure to address […]
By Ismail Salami The ‘DG [director General] of all states, but in agreement with us’ was how the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano was described by the US mission in Vienna. According […]
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By Ramzy Baroud Another mission accomplished, or so it seems. Israeli navy has managed to thwart yet another civil society ‘provocation’ (as described by the Israeli Embassy in Dublin, Irish Times, November 4). Thus the 27 […]
Israel’s Jerusalem municipality plans to build more than 50,000 new homes in the city’s occupied eastern sector over two decades, Israeli media reported on Sunday. A study commissioned by Israel’s Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barakat to […]
Impoverished Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are looking to aid agencies to deliver food assistance during this Eid Al-Adha holiday season. International NGOs, many Islamic, have been purchasing sheep and cows in preparation for […]
US Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro says the US and the Israeli regime are set to hold their ‘largest and most significant’ joint military maneuvers without offering details about the time and location […]
At least three Palestinians have been injured by Israeli tank shrapnel east of the beleaguered Gaza Strip. According to Palestinian sources, Israeli forces stationed at Nahal Oz, one of the crossing points from Gaza into […]
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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