On March 26th, Palestine solidarity supporters met at the White House and marched to the Convention Center to protest the AIPAC conference being held there over the weekend. They were met by Jewish Resistance demonstrators […]
By Vacy Vlazna “To them that walk in power; to exceed is madness, and not wisdom.” — Antigone The creation and slow demise of the two state solution in the Palestinian tragedy of the 20th and […]
By James M. Wall Nikki Haley, the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was greeted as a rock star at this year’s AIPAC Washington Conference. The former governor of South Carolina wowed the crowd of 19,000, […]
The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) has accused Israeli Intelligence agents on Wednesday of “attempting to strangle a Palestinian teen while interrogating him at al-Maskubiya detention center, west of occupied Jerusalem.” The PPS said in a […]
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Thursday noon fired teargas and sound grenades towards Palestinian protesters West Bank, who held the annual Land Day demonstration, PNN reported. Land Day was marked across Palestine with demonstrations and […]
President Donald Trump’s choice for the role of US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, was sworn in by a narrow margin yesterday. Friedman, who is an extremely controversial figure, officially became the United States’ ambassador […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, released a report on Wednesday, stating that Israeli forces had detained 13-year-old Palestinian child Baraa ‘Enayeh from his family […]
By Marion Kawas We are entering a new and ramped-up phase in the war on BDS activism by both the Israeli government and its lobby groups in other countries. One aspect of the escalation is […]
Hamas Refugee Affairs Office stressed on Wednesday “Palestinians’ commitment to return to their motherland—Palestine—and their readiness to make more sacrifices to restore their infringed rights and protect their holy sites.” Speaking in a statement issued […]
Some 133 Palestinian NGOs yesterday called on the Arab League to take the needed measures to impose sanctions on Israel over its “violation of international law and international legitimacy”, the Anadolu Agency reported. In a […]
By Ramzy Baroud The Israeli state has violated international law more than any other country, yet has rarely, if ever, been held accountable for crimes and misconduct. Israel’s successful public relation campaigns through the ever-willing […]
By William James Martin President Trump, in announcing his immigration and travel ban stated, “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives […]
By Mahmoud Zidan Last Thursday, the Royal Jordanian Airlines satirically tweeted twelve recommendations to its passengers because of the U.S. and U.K.’s respective governments’ ban of electronic devices larger than “smart” phones on planes flying […]
Riyad Al-Maliki, Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister, said “there was no plan to modify the Arab Peace Initiative aimed at achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians.” The Saudi-proposed initiative in 2002 offers Israel full diplomatic […]
Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared on Sunday that his country is “conducting a new policy against Hamas, in a responsible and determined form” since he came to office in June 2016,” PIC reported. “Anyone […]
Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, who spent 26 years in jail – many of them alongside Nelson Mandela – for acts of sabotage against South Africa’s white minority government, died in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning at the age […]
(To the old woman in Jerusalem, who lost everything.) By George Polley Why did these men in black steal my house with all my things in it, saying my house is theirs, that it […]
A German newspaper was forced to remove the name of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from a list of the world’s craziest leaders following diplomatic pressure. Hamburger Morgenpost had included Netanyahu in a list of […]
“The days of Israel-bashing are over,” US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley vowed on Monday. Haley’s remarks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual policy conference were interrupted several times by enthusiastic […]
Arab foreign ministers, meeting at the Dead Sea in Jordan stressed on Monday that “a precondition for peace with Israel is an end to its occupation of the Palestinian territory,” the official Palestinian Wafaa News […]
By Diana Alghoul Thousands of Jews and many others took to the streets to protest outside this year’s AIPAC conference in condemnation of Israel’s increasingly hostile policies towards Palestinians, in the world’s largest Jewish-led anti-settlement […]
Israeli intelligence agency Mossad attempted to turn French spies into double agents during a joint operation in Syria, Le Monde newspaper reported, citing a French intelligence report. The report, part-published by the French daily, reveals […]
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will make his first official visit to Israel and Palestine this May. The 12 day tour will see the Archbishop meeting with political and religious leaders while focusing on […]
Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip has issued a decision to shut down the Eretz Crossing connecting the costal enclave with Israel and the West Bank, a day after a Hamas freed prisoner was […]
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women approved a draft resolution on Saturday regarding the status of Palestinian women, including strengthening economic and social policies to enhance the situation of women in the […]
By Iqbal Jassat Is turning the heat on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists as Israel’s racist right wing regime is doing, any different to the “total onslaught” against freedom struggle activists by former apartheid chiefs […]
(Rima Khalaf resigned as executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia – ESCWA – after the agency was forced to retract a report stating that Israel is an “apartheid […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Jerusalem-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan published the testimonies of Palestinians from Jerusalem who were recently assaulted by Israeli forces, citing an increase in the number of violent assaults […]
Riyad Mansour, Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the United Nations, slammed on Wednesday the “bullying tactics and intimidation” that led to UN withdrawal of a report accusing Israel of establishing an “apartheid regime” against the Palestinians. […]
Thousands of Palestinians attended on Saturday afternoon the funeral ceremony of the al-Qassam commander Mazen Fuqaha who was assassinated Friday evening. Scores of al-Qassam’s fighters also attended the funeral, which started from Shifa Medical Complex […]
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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