By Talgha Bendie – Gaza The Centre for Political and Development Studies (CPDS) had the privilege of having Harry Fear, a young independent film maker, present a lecture on the importance of short documentaries. Harry […]
By Ayah Bashir – Gaza Amid the focus on the economic hardships caused by Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip, it has been easy for many to overlook the fact that the territory’s 1.6 […]
By Sami Zaatari For years we have heard pro-Israeli supporters talk about how Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, well, that argument is no longer valid with the recent historical elections taking […]
By Mats Svensson Daniel has returned home. He had felt a lump in his stomach even before stepping on the plane in Mumbai. He felt sick when he saw all the young boys and girls […]
Israel will return the bodies of a number of Palestinians held in a cemetery in Israel within a week, the PA minister of civil affairs said Wednesday. Hasan al-Sheikh told Ma’an his ministry would ensure […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Arab people are demanding democracy after living for decades under authoritarian regimes suffering systematic violations of their natural rights where injustice, impunity, police torture, battering and excessive use of deadly force […]
By Vacy Vlazna Every time Israel bans Palestinians from leaving Israel’s West Bank-Gaza Prison, and every time a well-meaning foreigner is refused entry to give humanitarian assistance to Palestinians, Israel is consolidating its reputation as […]
By Ramzy Baroud The age of revolutionary romance is over. Various Arab countries are now facing hard truths. Millions of Arabs merely want to live with a semblance of dignity, free from tyranny and continuous […]
Mahmoud al-Sarsak, a 25-year-old forward in Palestine’s national soccer team, has been on hunger strike in an Israeli jail for over two months, officials said Tuesday. Al-Sarsak and Akram al-Rekhawi, a diabetic who has refused […]
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has told Israeli officials that they must partition Jerusalem if they really want peace. "No Israeli government since 1967 has done even a smidgen of what was needed in […]
By Ramzy Baroud The commemoration of the Nakba needs to be more than a ritualistic event; the remembrance should be integrated into a clear and comprehensive national project aimed at offsetting the harm wrought to […]
Fatah and Hamas are meeting in the Gaza Strip to discuss a deal agreed in Cairo late Sunday, officials present said on Monday. Other factions will also attend the meeting, which is held regularly in […]
Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos says the presence of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the Israeli cabinet is “unbearable.” In an interview with the Austrian daily Die Presse, Darabos severely criticized Israel’s policies, with a special […]
By Ismail Salami In an organized act of brutality, a number of US soldiers went on a house-to-house shooting spree in Zangabad village, Kandahar in March and massacred 16 people including nine children while they […]
By Jamal Kanj In response to questions rating which country ‘… is having a mainly positive or mainly negative influence in the world?’ Israel was tie with N Korea for third place with highest negative […]
Denmark is set to introduce a labeling system to denote products made in Israeli settlements, Danish media said Friday. "This is a move that will clearly show consumers that this produce has been produced under […]
A senior United Nations relief official today (May 16) voiced deep concern over the plight of Palestinians affected by Israel’s occupation, including those displaced after their homes were demolished, and called for the scrapping of […]
The US plans to give Israel the extra $70m that it asked for this year for its short-range missile defence programme known as the "Iron Dome," Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary has said. Panetta […]
By Fida Jiryis Throughout contemporary history, movement of people outside their own countries for long or short intervals has occurred for various reasons: education, work, marriage, family ties, fleeing hardships, and so on. Foreigners exist […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘Get some new lawyers.’ — 1999: Then US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to UK Foreign Secretary Robin Cook on his assertion that the bombing of Balkan States was illegal under international […]
By Uri Avnery Rabin Square in Tel Aviv has seen many demonstrations, but none quite like last Saturday’s. It has nothing to do with the event which gave the square its name: the huge rally […]
BADIL is delighted to announce the launch of the new ‘Ongoing Nakba Education Center’ (ONEC) website – www.ongoingnakba.org The participatory website uses multi-media tools to build a significant advocacy resource relating to the historic and […]
Seven people were injured on Thursday when Israeli forces fired artillery rounds at the northern and eastern Gaza Strip, medics said. Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma’an that two people were seriously wounded […]
Two Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have refused to end their hunger strike as Israeli authorities fail to address their demands. “Prisoners Mahmud Sarsak and Akram Rikhawi are still on hunger strike,” the Egyptian daily […]
Blessing Akachukneu was already looking for a new place to live when her south Tel Aviv apartment, which doubles as a day-care centre, was firebombed in April. Her Israeli neighbours, she explained, had complained to […]
Palestinian Authority premier Salam Fayyad lost his dual role as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday, as President Mahmoud Abbas swore in 9 new ministers. He was replaced by Nabil Qassis, a former […]
By Neve Gordon I first heard about the Nakba in the late 1980s, while I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at Hebrew University. This, I believe, is a revealing fact, particularly since, as a […]
By Stuart Reigeluth Last month the European Parliament postponed the vote at the Committees on Foreign Affairs and International Trade on whether or not to enhance trade relations even further with Israel. This is good […]
By Nicola Nasser A surplus of mediators have been around all the time, including the heavy weight Quartet of the UN, U.S., EU and Russia, as well as heaps of terms of reference of UNSC […]
By Julie Webb-Pullman – Gaza Despite repeatedly stating that a key demand was an end to administrative detention, and that no partial offer would be accepted, an Israeli offer was yesterday accepted by the Higher […]
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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