As part of a plan to effect separate Jewish and Palestinian West Bank bus lines, “moles” were planted on mixed buses to extract sexual comments from Palestinian laborers, according to Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. Haaretz has […]
Israeli investigators threatened to rape Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed al-Qiq, his wife and children, according to his lawyer, Ashraf Abu Sneineh. “In the beginning of the investigation of Mohammed they told him that they will […]
By Jeremy Salt As the Syrian army advances on Raqqa and seals off supply routes to the armed gangs inside Aleppo, no surprise that there is another spike in the propaganda war, this time directed […]
By David Smith-Ferri Last month, as US border patrol agents began rounding up Central American women and children denied asylum, a small group of international peace activists from Voices for Creative Nonviolence boarded a plane […]
A Palestinian teacher from the occupied West Bank has been chosen as a top ten finalist in an international teaching competition, it was announced today. Hanan Al-Hroub, from Dheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem, was […]
PLO officials on Wednesday slammed British proposals to forbid a boycott of Israeli settlement goods by publicly-funded British institutions, saying they “would empower the Israeli occupation by sending a message of impunity.” PLO Executive Committee […]
Israel’s Supreme Court yesterday rejected hunger-striking prisoner Muhammad Al-Qeq’s demand to be moved to a hospital in the occupied West Bank, the head of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said. Issa Qaraqe […]
Palestinian Authority security forces on Wednesday detained 22 Palestinian teachers who took part in a strike demanding the guarantee of teachers’ rights, sources in the Palestinian Teachers’ Union said. The sources said that the teachers, […]
Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, on his 83rd day of hunger strike Monday, refused an Israeli court decision for his transfer to an East Jerusalem hospital, maintaining he would not end his strike until released and […]
By Ramzy Baroud The Israeli ‘Right’, as demonstrated by a scary coalition of rightwing nationalists, ultranationalists and religious zealots, deserves all the bad press it has garnered since its formation last May. But none of […]
Israeli police briefly detained the Washington Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief and West Bank correspondent for alleged “incitement” on Tuesday, prompting the Foreign Press Association to decry Israel’s “heavy-handed tactics.” The FPA said bureau chief William […]
By Dr. Abdul-Sattar Qassim I am a writer. I also happen to be a writer who has been exposed to repressive actions by Arab and Israeli authorities more than most in the modern era. I have […]
By Hatim Kanaaneh, MD, MPH. Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015) is her second published novel. It is a tribute to the author and to all the other Palestinian raconteurs and […]
An online video of a disabled Palestinian man being tipped out of his wheelchair by an Israeli police officer in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) has provoked outrage on social media. The […]
One of the two Palestinians shot dead after attempting to carry out an armed attack in Jerusalem on Sunday night has been identified as Palestinian Authority security officer, local Palestinian sources told Ma’an. Mansour Yasser […]
Israel expressed doubts on Sunday that the agreement reached in Munich to halt hostilities in Syria would succeed, suggesting a sectarian partition of the country was inevitable and perhaps preferable, AlMesryoon.com reported. While formally neutral […]
Israel is looking to increase the US aid it receives from $3 billion to $5 billion each year, Haaretz newspaper reported yesterday. The US agreement on security assistance with Israel, whereby America pays $30 billion in […]
Israeli forces on Sunday shot and injured a 14-year-old Palestinian girl near Hebron city’s Ibrahimi Mosque after an alleged attempted stabbing attack in the southern occupied West Bank, an Israeli police spokesperson said. Local Palestinian […]
By Jamal Kanj In the last week’s column, I wrote on the banned love story from the Israeli high school reading list. The Israeli education ministry claimed that young Jewish students might not comprehend “the […]
Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeq, 33, has entered his 80th day of hunger strike, protesting his administrative detention by the Israeli state – imprisonment without charge or trial. Al-Qeq, a journalist with Al-Majd TV, launched his […]
A Palestinian girl was shot dead by Israeli army troops in the occupied West Bank after attempting to stab an Israeli soldier, the Israeli army announced Saturday. According to army spokesmen, the assailant was shot […]
The Egyptian authorities have opened the Rafah border crossing linking the blockaded Gaza Strip and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula for a two-day period in both directions, a Palestinian Authority source said Saturday. The source, who works […]
The lawyer representing the family of murdered Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir on Thursday accused one of his killers of “stalling” justice, as an Israeli court began to hear his insanity plea. Two Israeli minors […]
Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces throughout the occupied Palestinian territory during this week’s Friday demonstrations, leaving several wounded, including a child who was seriously injured. A Palestinian was injured after clashes broke out […]
Senior Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzouk has said that the obligations of the PLO towards Israel and the international community have brought the siege to the Gaza Strip. He also called for an end to […]
By Ira Glunts עתידות: בעוד 30 שנה עמירם בן אוליאל עורך עיתון מכובד בישראל — Chaim Levinson (@chaimlevinson) January 3, 2016 (Translation: Prediction: In 30 years Amiram Ben Uliel is a respected newspaper editor in […]
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Israeli Society in the 21st Century – Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict. Calvin Goldscheider. Brandeis University Press, Waltham , Massachusetts. 2015.) This work intrigued me as it is obviously supportive of […]
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed its concern about “rising pressure on journalists in Israel.” In a statement dated February 8, the CPJ said it is “concerned by reports indicating rising […]
Israeli forces on Thursday destroyed over 40 Palestinian homes and structures in the Tubas district of the occupied West Bank as ongoing Israeli policies in the Jordan Valley continue to drive Palestinians out of their […]
By Vacy Vlazna To be an effective activist it is important for me to understand the nature of human evil. In that endeavor, I was drawn to read Hannah Arendt’s own discoveries about what she […]
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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