By Richard Lightbown As the death of Leonard Cohen was announced today tributes flowed in from around the world. Regrettably I cannot share this sense of loss. For me the spirit of the man who […]
A senior United Nations official has decried the Israeli authorities’ ongoing obstruction of humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. “Targeting the most vulnerable of the vulnerable and preventing them from receiving relief […]
As Told to William A. Cook by Hatim Khatib “We need your help. … The occupation must end. The UN Security Council must act. And the time is now,” (Hagai El-Ad, head of B’tselem, before […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) commemorated on Thursday the 12th anniversary of President Yasser Arafat’s death, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for 2017 to mark the end of the Israeli occupation. While at a ceremony […]
Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday that the possibility of a Palestinian state being established had ended after the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, calling for an end to the issue that […]
The Israeli government is ploughing funding into Ariel University, based in a West Bank settlement of Arial. According to an investigative report published on October 30 by Israeli financial paper Calcalist, Ariel University benefits from […]
Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked blasted a proposal by Joint List parliamentarian Jamal Zahalka to recognize Palestinian citizens as a national minority. Speaking in the Knesset, Shaked claimed that the proposed legislation “wishes to innovate […]
Palestinian Members of Parliament, politicians and analysts accuse Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas of using the Constitutional Court to consolidate his authoritarianism and stop his political rivals, Quds Press reported yesterday. On Sunday, the […]
As of Wednesday evening, Republican candidate Trump won 289 of 538 electoral votes, while his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton cinched 218, in a landslide victory which came as a surprise to many observers. Israeli Prime […]
With voting in the US underway, a spoof YouTube video of Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim bigotry showing the double standards of the mainstream media has appeared online. The video, uploaded by T. Rich, substitutes the words […]
More than 20 senior European diplomats visited Gaza on Tuesday, calling for the Israeli blockade on the impoverished Palestinian enclave to be lifted. Ambassadors from 22 European Union states visited Gaza to assess the state […]
By Ramzy Baroud The Fatah movement is involved in a massive tug-of-war that will ultimately define its future. Though the conflict is between current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and once Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan […]
By Jonathan Cook The earth has been shifting under our feet for a while, but all liberals want to do is desperately cling to the status quo like a life-raft. Middle-class Britons are still hyperventiliating […]
By Richard Falk It is not often that Medea Benjamin, the charismatic founder of Code Pink, offers us her insight into a troublesome American reality that is almost simultaneously confirmed by the New York Times, […]
A bill preventing supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was authorized on Monday for its first reading in the Israeli parliament, according to Israeli media. According to the Jerusalem […]
Israel yesterday confirmed that it rejects the French initiative for peace and will not participate in a conference in Paris, local media reported. An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the French special envoy […]
Israeli naval forces attempted to drown a Palestinian fishing boat off the coast of the central Gaza Strip on Monday, according to witnesses. Local fishermen told Ma’an that Israeli naval boats pumped wastewater towards Muhammad […]
Palestinian children demonstrated at a sit-in on Tuesday in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Gaza, in protest of the sentencing of 14-year-old Ahmad Manasra to 12 years in Israeli prison. […]
Israel’s Jerusalem district court sentenced 14-year-old Palestinian, Ahmad Manasra, to 12 years in prison on Monday. Manasra was convicted of ‘attempted murder’ for carrying out a stabbing attack on October 12, 2015 that left two […]
The Israeli Southern District Public Prosecution handed over on Sunday an indictment to the Beer Sheva District Court against the 23- year-old Gazan fisherman Mahmoud Said Al-Saidi, who was charged with several offenses including making […]
RT’s documentary film, ‘We Love Gaza,’ has received high commendations at the Association for International Broadcasting Awards in the International Current Affairs category. The film tells the story of two rival parkour teams finding solace […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces helped thwart an attack on the Israeli army in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli media reported on Sunday. Hebrew-language news site Walla quoted PA officials in […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will visit Israel during this week. Netanyahu’s spokesperson Ofir Gendelman quoted him during the Cabinet’s weekly session saying, “Russian Prime Minister […]
Two Palestinian prisoners ended their hunger strikes on Sunday after spending 11 days without food, according to the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs. Director of the committee Issa Qaraqe reported that prisoners, Samer al-Issawi, a […]
By Romana Rubeo Trying to retrace Italy’s position on Palestine means, in some ways, following the same painful history that has marked the emptying of the Italian left, the abandonment of the values which characterized […]
By Jim Miles Canada’s Governor-General David Johnston, technically the British Queen’s representative in Canada, has visited Israel/Palestine in order “to road-test a more balanced Canadian approach to the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Part of the trip […]
By Charlotte Silver Israel’s state comptroller has sharply criticized three government agencies for outsourcing the management of major archaeological excavations and sites in Jerusalem to Elad, a private organization that settles Jews in the militarily […]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on Friday that the PA leadership is “serious” regarding making peace on the basis of the two-state solution, Palsawa.com has reported. In a joint press conference held with Canadian […]
A delegation of Gazan businessmen and civil society personnel are scheduled to travel to Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, to partake in a conference discussing the current economic situation in the besieged coastal […]
A fundraising dinner organized by Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) in Los Angeles has raised $38 million, Yedioth Ahronoth has reported. The annual gala event is attended by prominent celebrities, artists and businessmen. […]
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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