By Mats Svensson We used to meet at Borderline Restaurant, myself and three young, well-educated men (always men) from “The Bank.” We were discussing the recent World Bank meeting in Al Ram. President Arafat had […]
Medical officials said Thursday that a young boy died two days after an explosion in the al-Sheikh Radwan area in the northern Gaza Strip. Imad Abu Qadrous, 5, died of severe head wounds and three […]
Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has expressed concern about the well-being of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, particularly Samer Issawi who has been on hunger strike for more than 200 days […]
By IRIN Ahmed Dweik’s family knows a thing or two about the refugee experience. Theirs started in 1948, when his father fled his Palestinian home town as Israeli forces captured the village of West Batani […]
By Jamal Kanj Western media is obsessed with presenting a positive spin on everything related to Israel, while trivializing good and accentuating negative news on Palestine. It’s admirably free in many aspects, but when it […]
By Joshua Brollier On February 11, 2013, the New York Times reported about the funeral of retired Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle, portraying him as a “warrior and family man.” The highly politicized and massive […]
By Zachary Fillingham Opposition troops in Syria have largely come to be referred to as the Free Syria Army (FSA), but this title belies the fact that the anti-Assad side of the civil war equation […]
By Ramzy Baroud – with Rafiq Kathwari He sipped then walked slowly head held high greeting the hangman with a gentle nod eyes sunk to heart beard grew defiant remembering the judge asking to repeat […]
Omar Barghouti of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign on why he thinks this type of pressure is needed to make Israel respect international law.
Israel has confirmed it had imprisoned a mystery foreigner in solitary confinement on security grounds who had committed suicide, without revealing his identity or the charges against him. “The Israel Prisons Service (IPS) held a […]
Fatah leader President Mahmoud Abbas says elections will be the basis to end the division, but that Hamas opposes a vote “at this stage.” “An agreement has been reached with Hamas that we form a […]
Israel has given final approval for 90 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, driving another wedge into a rift with Washington ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The homes will […]
The detention of Hamas supporters in the West Bank lays more obstacles before the intended general elections, a party official said Tuesday after Israel launched an arrest sweep. Mousa Abu Marzouq, deputy chief of the […]
By Ramzy Baroud Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Since 1967 Israeli-Arab war, the Palestinians in the occupied lands have to contend in their daily lives with Jewish-only settlements, settler-only highways, check points and roadblocks, earth mounds and trenches, land […]
By Neve Gordon – Israel Former anchorman and middle-class darling Yair Lapid stunned the Israeli political scene in the recent elections. His party, Yesh Atid (There is a Future) won 19 seats, second in size […]
By Steve Breyman Believe the War on Terror has been an unmitigated disaster? Find it difficult to wrap your head around the Long War’s long list of horrors? Think the Obama administration and Congress’s willingness […]
By Ludwig Watzal In its recent report, Arrested Development: The Long Term Impact of Israel’s Separation Barrier in the West Bank, B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, examines the ramifications of the Wall and the […]
Around 16,000 people registered to vote on Monday in the Gaza Strip, a lower turnout than expected, the Central Elections Commission said. Central Elections Commission spokesman Ola Salameh told Ma’an the low turnout was surprising […]
Freed detainee Akram Rekhawi on Monday said his 100 day hunger strike was the hardest stage of his nine-year prison sentence. “I saw death many times a day and it was very painful and Israeli […]
A close ally of Israel’s prime minister has called peace with the Palestinians “impossible”, saying the conflict between them and Israel can only be “managed”. Former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman in a television interview on […]
Israeli police have detained 10 women at one of Judaism’s holiest sites for wearing prayer shawls, which Orthodox tradition sees as solely for men, authorities confirm. Among those detained on Monday at the Western Wall […]
By Ernest Corea – Washington, D.C. Hear those sounds? They are probably the echoes of Israel’s fervent supporters in the US erupting in hosannas when the White House recently confirmed that President Barack Obama is […]
A Palestinian prisoner who spent 100 days on hunger strike last year was released to the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Akram Rekhawi crossed through the Erez crossing into Gaza to a public reception of political […]
A Palestinian medical center has said it had successfully carried out artificial insemination procedures by smuggling out the sperm of four Palestinians jailed by Israel. “The successful experience of detainee Ammar Ziben encouraged other prisoners […]
By Jamal Kanj Egypt’s is an experimental democracy in progress, but when the evolution of this process turns bloody it begs the question: is it worth it? An Egyptian tourist guide who has lost his […]
By Hussein Al-alak As 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, I feel there are some points of focus which the media and campaigners need to address, if they wish to provide substance, […]
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Globalizing Torture. CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York 2013, pp 212.) “Today, more than a decade after September 11, there is no doubt that high-ranking […]
By Uri Avnery ‘Compared to the Knesset it could have been, this is a very good Knesset!’ I heard this, in so many words, from at least ten former Knesset members and others, as we […]
Israel will release a prisoner on Thursday who spent 100 days on hunger strike last year, his lawyer said Tuesday. Akram Rekhawi will be released Thursday, four months before completing a 9-year sentence, his daughter […]
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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