Dozens of Palestinians were injured Sunday including two shot with live bullets at demonstrations across the West Bank to protest the death of a Palestinian in Israeli custody. At least 26 protesters sustained wounds from […]
The Palestinian government is alleging that a Palestinian man who died in Israeli custody was tortured to death, dismissing claims that his death was due to a heart attack. Arafat Jaradat’s autopsy showed torture resulting […]
By Susan Abulhawa Apartheid’s outlaw Has crooked white teeth An Adam’s Apple and an angled jaw A beautiful face With a knowing smile, gentle eyes And masculine grace O’ Native son, my brother Your eyes […]
By Zahra Zamorano If I could feed one ounce of Earth into empty stomachs of stubborn roots would this bide enough time to see wings of hope fly home again? If I could write one […]
Clashes erupted across the West Bank after the Friday prayers between Israeli troops and Palestinian protesters who rallied to show solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. Dozens were hurt as Israeli soldiers fired tear gas heavily […]
By Nicola Nasser The “unbreakable alliance,” which will be confirmed by the upcoming visit of President Barak Obama to Israel, will disqualify the United States as an honest broker of peace in the Arab – […]
By Uri Avnery One of the most interesting and prolonged private debates I have had in my life was with the brilliant Dr. Nahum Goldmann. The subject: American peace initiatives. It was an unequal debate, […]
An Israeli court has handed a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike since August last year an eight-month sentence, of which he has another month left to serve. Samer Issawi’s fate, however, remains […]
US immigration officials briefly detained the Palestinian director of the Oscar-nominated documentary 5 Broken Cameras on his way into Los Angeles for Sunday’s Academy Awards. Iyad Burnat said that when he arrived at Los Angeles […]
By Jamal Kanj The Invention of the Jewish People was a book written by Shlomo Sand, an Israeli professor of history at the University of Tel Aviv. The author wasn’t probing a belief system, but […]
The head of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was lightly injured on Thursday in a car bomb that shook central Damascus and killed several people, a DFLP official said. Nayef Hawatmeh, 74, […]
Egypt’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels to the Gaza Strip will not succeed unless alternatives to importing produce are provided, an official in Gaza’s Hamas-run government said Wednesday. Several days ago, Egyptian forces began flooding smuggling […]
By Ramzy Baroud When one looks at scenes of feeling refugees from Syria, browse through images of their squalid refugee camps, hears their plea for solidarity, for mercy, for God’s help to end their suffering, […]
By Barb Weir Presidential Drone Hit List makes you work to find the people you’re supposed to kill, but the job of doing so is relatively easy and without risk. The Good -Large variety of […]
For the second time in a week, Israeli security officials visited Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials focusing on the ceasefire brokered by Egypt last year between Israel and the Palestinian factions operating in the […]
Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi has appeared in an Israeli court, where his lawyers attempted to get him released on bail, as hundreds protest across the West Bank. Gaunt and wheelchair-bound, Issawi appeared on Tuesday […]
Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister, has been named as justice minister after joining an emerging coalition headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the ruling Likud Party. Livni, who heads the centrist HaTnuah Party, […]
By David Langstaff “I was like other men, I fed on bread, and on dreams, and on despair. I too loved, I cried, I hated, I suffered… But when you dry this bouquet of nettles, […]
Protesters rallied in Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah on Monday in support of hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails, as the PA minister of prisoner affairs warned of a popular uprising in the West Bank. In […]
A suspected agent of the Israeli spy agency Mossad known as “Prisoner X” was arrested by his own spymasters after leaking information about his work to Australian intelligence services, an Australian broadcaster reported. Ben Zygier, […]
Israel’s former foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud and breach of trust at the start of a trial that has put the ultranationalist’s political career in doubt. The charges, […]
By Uri Avnery The sole contribution of Ya’ir Lapid to Israeli folklore so far is his saying that he would not join a move to block Binyamin Netanyahu, since this would mean joining forces with […]
By William James Martin The efforts of Israel and its US supporters and the Obama administration to institute crippling sanctions on Iran may have less to do with a potential nuclear capability than with the […]
By Tamar Fleishman Two back-to-back procedures at the same time and at the same place. It was cold. The air was polluted. But the harmful and cruel regulations were more polluted. The victims: two babies. […]
By Susan Abulhawa I finally watched The Great Book Robbery at the University of Pennsylvania this weekend with some friends. It’s a film documenting Israel’s systematic looting of over 70,000 books from Palestinian public and […]
Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinian protesters at a rally in support of a prisoner observing an hunger strike to protest his incarceration. The Israeli military said about 200 Palestinians threw rocks at soldiers who […]
Palestinian Hamas politicians ordered to leave the country after being branded “a serious threat to national security”. Bulgaria has ordered three visiting Palestinian politicians from Hamas to leave the country, saying they posed a security […]
Residents of the Gaza Strip repeatedly fall prey of fake banknotes both in Israeli shekels and in US dollars, smuggled from Egypt through tunnels or printed locally. “Counterfeit NIS are easy to distinguish, but with […]
By Manash Bhattacharjee I learnt from your poems how To wait upon death And how waiting is a game as Treacherous as death. I learnt from you how the root Of waiting is grasped in […]
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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