By Ben Lorber, ISM, West Bank As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence […]
Nations that come into existence by dispossessing, imprisoning and slaughtering the indigenous population have two problems with history: 1. Its ugliness makes it hard to glorify.2. Its shortness exposes the tenuousness of any claim that […]
By Edward S. Goldstein As an American Jew with lifelong involvement in Jewish cultural and religious life, I watched the unfolding of the Palestinian application for UN membership with both admiration and a sense of […]
By Ben Lorber – ISM, West Bank In the immediate aftermath of the illegal capture of the Freedom Waves flotillas, Israel’s public image has been tarnished, as reports of violence at sea surface to counteract […]
By Stuart Littlewood Arthur Balfour’s infamous ‘Declaration’ was written 94 years ago this week. Palestinians, of course, don’t need reminding. And to mark the anniversary Israel ordered its warships to carry out yet another act […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran In recent days, there has been a vociferous interest in Israel, the US and the UK in fanning the flames of Iranophobia in what observers see as a political red herring […]
By Lillian Rosengarten For a moment, when I knew there were two ships with 27 activists nearing the waters that would bring them to the shores of Gaza, I imagined no war ships would come […]
By Baher Kamal – Cairo The four-decade-long bid to free the Middle East from all weapons of mass destruction (WMD) starting with nukes, will move next year to Helsinki as Finland surprisingly decided to host […]
The Israeli military boarded on Friday two vessels bound for the Gaza Strip, activists and army officials said. The Tahrir, a yacht crewed by Canadian activists, was being boarded about 35 nautical miles from the […]
Riyad al-Maliki, the foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), says Palestinians will not accept anything less than full UN membership and do not want an upgrade to an observer state in the world body. […]
Israeli naval forces have boarded two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for the Gaza Strip, foiling the latest attempt to break the four-year Israeli blockade of the territory. The Canadian vessel Tahrir and the Irish […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts was launched at the Journalists’ Union 31 October, with a colourful panel of speakers, including Al-Ahram Centre for Political & Strategic Studies Editor-in-Chief […]
Israel has announced that its navy will attempt to stop two boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for the Gaza Strip, in the latest attempt by activists to break the four-year Israeli blockade against the territory. […]
Hamas has condemned an Israeli threat to intercept a Gaza-bound aid convoy as “official piracy,” calling on international organizations to protect the humanitarian aid ships. "We consider the Israeli threat to these ships as an […]
Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians in an attack on the northern part of the blockaded Gaza Strip as Tel Aviv steps up attacks against civilians in the besieged territory. The incident occurred on Thursday, […]
By Uri Avnery Everybody knows the scene from school: a small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. ‘Hold me back!’ he shouts to his comrades, ‘Before I break his bones!’ Our government seems to be […]
Israel has test-fired a ballistic missile capable of reaching Iran from the Palmachim base, according to a report on Israeli radio. The test of a rocket propulsion system on Wednesday comes amid increased debate around […]
International activists say two ships carrying humanitarian assistance and pro-Palestinian campaigners have set sail from Turkey in a new attempt to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. A statement issued by the activists in […]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are making efforts to muster a majority in the cabinet to launch a military attack on Iran. Despite a previous […]
Hamas on Wednesday urged President Mahmoud Abbas to abandon negotiations with Israel after its government announced it would punish Palestinians for joining UNESCO. Israel decided Tuesday to accelerate illegal settlement construction in the West Bank […]
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara ‘We came, we saw, he died’. So did Hillary Clinton, paraphrasing Julius Ceasar, only a few years before his own brutal death, she should perhaps be reminded, describe the conquest […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo The Boycott, Divests and Sanctions (BDS) movement is growing relentless. On the boycott front, Natacha Atlas, who won a 2007 BBC Music award for her fusion of Arabic and Western […]
By Ramzy Baroud Following Tunisia’s first fair and free elections on October 27, the Western media responded with a characteristic sense of fear and alarm. For many, it seemed that the ghost of the Islamic […]
By Ben Lorber – Ramallah, The West Bank On Wednesday, November 2, two international ships left the Turkish harbor to carry humanitarian aid through the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The event, called ‘Freedom Waves for […]
By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town, South Africa Like so many interested in the course of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, I will be keenly watching the Cape Town leg, which is the third of […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran There is a strong speculation that Israel is bound to mount an attack on Iranian nuclear sites, a threat which the Zionist regime has frequently repeated and an idea which, […]
Israel’s prime minister has ordered the building of 2,000 new housing units for Israelis, mainly in East Jerusalem, an area Palestinians claim as the capital of their future state. Binyamin Netanyahu said in a statement […]
Fatah is forming a committee to discuss the future of the Palestinian Authority in light of Israel’s continued aggression and occupation, the party’s Revolutionary Council said Monday. Members will be drawn from Fatah’s Central Committee […]
A report says Israel is seeking to beef up its nuclear weapons capabilities despite Tel Aviv’s repeated defiance of international calls to join global non-proliferation treaties. Israel is widely believed to be the sole possessor […]
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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