Ayman Oudeh Has Already Won Israel’s Election
According to an Arab friend who lives in the Middle East, the most exciting Arab leader is an Israeli. His name is Ayman Oudeh. He is a 40-year-old Muslim attorney from Haifa with a wife […]
Month: March 2015
Fans of Barcelona Basketball Team Show Support for Palestine Despite Attacks on Free Speech
On Thursday March 12, Maccabi Tel Aviv played against FC Barcelona at a Euroleague Basketball match. After four days of tension between Barcelona supporters and FC Barcelona authorities due to the prohibition by the Catalan club […]
If Netanyahu is Re-elected, Israel Has a Europe Problem
Forget whatever temporary crisis Benjamin Netanyahu created with the United States in his campaign speech on the Hill. If Netanyahu is re-elected on Tuesday, Israel is going to have a much more serious problem with […]
US Omits Iran and Hezbollah From Terror Threat List
An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah from its list of terror threats to U.S. interests, […]
Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling License To Dick Cheney-Linked Company
Israel has granted a U.S. company the first license to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed of the Financial Times reports. A local subsidiary of the New York-listed company […]
Who’s Afraid of the Israel Lobby?
Congress is the last place to look for “the brightest and the best” or the most knowledgeable. Still, most Senators and Representatives are at least somewhat better informed than people whose window on the world […]
2014 Sees Record Number of Media Violations in Palestine
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) said Sunday that 2014 saw 465 violations of media freedoms in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. MADA chairman Dr. Ghazi Hanania told […]
Activists Call for Boycott of Air Canada over Outsourcing to Israel
In recent months, Canadian government officials have been working overtime to further cement their outrageous and biased support of Israeli policies. One example is the January 18, 2015 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries that committed […]
Netanyahu: If I’m Elected, There Will Be No Palestinian State
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said Monday that if he were to be reelected, a Palestinian state would not be created, in a definite disavowal of his 2009 speech, in which he had voiced support for the […]
The Dodgy Clairvoyants of the Israel Lobby
One curious thing about the Israel lobby is that so many of its staff seem to be clairvoyants. Each foresees the same thing: Iran is less than one year away from having a nuclear bomb. […]
Disregarding Gaza in Israeli Elections: Short Documentary
A short documentary that examines the absence of Gaza and the Palestinians from the Israeli mainstream media and 2015 elections. Shot during operation Protective Edge by Tamar Glezerman & Arianna LaPenne.
Hares Boys Mark Two Years Behind Bars for Alleged Stone-throwing
Sunday marked two years since five boys from the northern West Bank village of Hares were arrested over an alleged stone-throwing incident that saw all five charged with attempted murder, despite strongly contested evidence.The five […]
‘Unbreakable’ Wins International Award
MEMO photographer Mohammed Asad’s photo of Dalia Khalifa won an award last week at a competition organised by the UN. ‘Unbreakable’ – is the photo of 9yr old Dalia Khalifa, taken at Al-Shifa Hospital on […]
Obama and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
By William James Martin Former President, Nobel Laureate, and founder of the Carter Center, Jimmy Carter, was conspicuously absent from the podium at the National Democratic Conventions in 2008 and 2012 in which Barak Obama […]
Israel to Build another Wall along Jordanian Border
Israel plans to build another “separation wall” on the border with Jordan to protect it from possible infiltration by global jihadists, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The plan has been revealed following the completion of […]
Israel Ex-security Chief Backs Netanyahu Election Rival Herzog
A former head of Israel’s internal security agency has backed prime ministerial hopeful Isaac Herzog ahead of Tuesday’s general election, criticizing incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu for his record in security. “Why is this the moment to […]
Hamas Alleges Palestinian Authority Spied on Gaza Armed Groups
Hamas on Saturday released a string of videos allegedly revealing that members of the Palestinian Authority security forces in Ramallah spied on armed groups in Gaza and provided intelligence on the location of fighters to […]
Will Israeli Voters Do the Right Thing?
All opinion polls published on Friday in Israel, the last date on which it is allowed to publish them prior to Tuesday’s general election, give more or less the same results: Isaac Herzog’s Zionist Camp […]
How Blair’s Egyptian Gas Gambit Advances Israeli Energy Empire
This week, Egypt signed a landmark $12bn deal with British Petroleum (BP) to develop the country’s offshore natural gas resources. The West Nile Delta project aims to bring the gas onshore for domestic consumption within […]
Islamic State as a Western Phenomenon?
Not only is IS to a degree an alien movement in the larger body politic of the Middle East, it also seems to be a partly western phenomenon, a hideous offspring resulting from western neocolonial […]
10 Years after Modest Launch, Israeli Apartheid Week Spans the Globe
By Joe Catron In March 2005, the Arab Students’ Collective, a campus organisation at the University of Toronto, held a series of local events to support Palestinians and protest Israeli policies. Hoping to broaden debate […]
Two-state Relevant Only in Terms of Facilitating Israel’s Colonization Process
Over the weekend, seemingly contradictory statements have emerged from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud Party with regard to the two-state compromise – including the contradiction between allegedly not wanting to rule over […]
Injured Gazans Rally to Support Victims of Israeli Offensive
Hundreds of Palestinians injured during Israel’s summer offensive on the Gaza Strip on Thursday protested in Gaza City against what they say is official inaction for Palestinians disabled by Israeli warfare. Participants in the protest […]
Spain Bans Fans from Waving Palestinian Flags at Macabbi TA Game
Barcelona authorities on Tuesday banned fans from waving Palestinian flags during a game between Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Regal FC Barcelona in the Euroleague on Thursday. The move was decided upon after various incidents in which […]
The Secret History of My Geography Teacher, Also Co-founder of Hamas
By Ramzy Baroud This is not my geography teacher, or, more accurately it is not at all how I remember him. A series of APA images published by the British Daily Mail and other newspapers […]
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UNRWA Chief Joins Aid Convoy into Besieged Yarmouk Camp
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees accompanied the first aid convoy in three months to enter the besieged Yarmouk camp in the Syrian capital on Tuesday. Pierre Krahenbuhl said it was “totally […]
15-year-old Palestinian Enters 76th Day in Israeli Custody
Fifteen-year-old Palestinian Khalid Hussam al-Sheikh entered his 76th day in Israeli custody on Wednesday after he was sentenced to four months jail time and given a 2,000 shekel ($495) fine for throwing rocks and burning […]
Republicans and Iran Deal Opponents Funded by Same Mega-Donors
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress last week, making his case against the deal the U.S. and partner nations are negotiating over Iran’s nuclear program, Miriam Adelson — the wife of billionaire casino […]
Saudi King Affirms Support for Palestinian Cause
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz said the gulf monarchy is committed to defending Arab and Muslim causes mainly the legitimate right of Palestinians to establish an independent state, with its capital in Jerusalem. In […]
