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Month: June 2017

Israeli Artists Call on Radiohead to Cancel Israel Concert
A group of Israeli musicians wrote an open letter published in Mondoweiss, asking the band, Radiohead to heed the calls of human rights activists and cancel their upcoming performance in Tel Aviv on July 19. […]

UN Secretary General: Ending Occupation is ‘Only Way’ to Achieve Peace
On the occasion of a United Nations forum, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Thursday for an end to the half-century Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the Golan Heights as […]

Saudi Official: Relations With Israel Will Be Based on ‘Mutual Interest’
Saudi Arabia will normalise its relations with Israel if the latter accepts the Arab Initiative, the Director of the Middle East Centre for Strategic and Legal Studies, Anwar Eshki, said. In an interview with the […]

Calls to Release Muhammad Allan on 22 Day of Hunger Strike
As Muhammad Allan entered his 22nd day on hunger strike in Israeli custody on Friday, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies called on Palestinians and international groups to do more to support the Palestinian prisoner. […]

Latest Palestinian Martyr is Laid to Rest in Hebron
Palestinians held a funeral procession and burial for 23-year-old Iyad Munir Arafat Ghaith on Thursday, hours after the young Palestinian man was shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces during a night raid […]

Israel Plans to Install Dahlan instead of Abbas
A leading Israeli writer revealed yesterday an Israel-Egypt-UAE plan to install Mohamed Dahlan as the leader of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip instead of Mahmoud Abbas. In an opinion piece in Haaretz, Zvi Bar’el […]

Who to Believe, Your Lying Eyes or the Truth?
By James M. Wall Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump have one thing in common: They both have as much credibility as the man who killed his parents and then begged the judge for mercy because […]

Israeli Report Claims Hamas and Israel In ‘Advanced Talks’ over Prisoners
Israel and Hamas have reportedly been engaged in “intensive indirect talks” recently over possible deal to release a number of Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel in exchange for Israelis held by Hamas in the […]

Pushing Gaza to Suicide: The Politics of Humiliation
By Ramzy Baroud Mohammed Abed is a 28-year-old taxi driver from the village of Qarara, near the town of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. He has no teeth. Lack of medical care and proper […]

Israelis Kill Palestinian During Night Raid in Hebron
A Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday evening during a raid in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. According to an Israeli army spokesperson, Israeli forces – whom Israeli […]

Balfour’s Shadow – A Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Balfour’s Shadow – A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel. David Cronin. Pluto Press, London. 2017.) The Balfour Declaration, currently accepted by many as the founding legal statement for […]

PHROC Call on International Community to Ensure Israel’s Cooperation with UN Missions
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) called on the international community to ensure Israel’s cooperation with UN missions in a statement released last Saturday. PHROC in a press release, PHROC beckoned the international community […]

News Report: PA Blocking Gaza’s Patients from Receiving Medical Care
As the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip continues to raise alarms, reports emerged Monday that the occupied West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) has been preventing Palestinians in the coastal enclave from leaving the […]

Wasting the Milk in the Summer – Poetry Review
Reviewed by Samah Sabwai (Wasting the Milk in the Summer by Sara Saleh) Once in a while, you come across a poetry collection and your world comes to a stand still! You hold your breath […]

UNESCO Group Denied Entry to Hebron’s Old City by Israelis
Israeli authorities have refused to grant entry visas for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) investigative team scheduled to conduct a field visit to the Old City in the southern occupied West […]

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza, Hamas Accuses Israel of Fabricating Rocket Claim
The Israeli air force launched at least two airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip early Tuesday, with the Israeli army saying the attacks targeted two Hamas military infrastructures and were in response to a rocket […]

Israel’s Efforts to Hide Palestinians from View No Longer Fools Young American Jews
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Few books on Palestinian history become bestsellers. But one, titled A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era, managed to rocket to the top of […]

Paris Air Show: BDS Group Disrupts Israel’s Elbit Systems Exhibition
BDS activists along with members of the collective: “Les Désobeissants” (the disobedient) staged a non-violent protest action against the Israeli company Elbit Systems on Saturday, June 24, during the Paris Air Show, Middle East Monitor […]

Adameer: Israel Practices ‘Systematic Torture’ on Palestinian Prisoners
Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer released a statement on Monday, International Day to Support Victims of Torture, highlighting Israel’s use of “torture and ill-treatment” on Palestinian detainees, which has led to the death of 73 […]

Leaked Document: Muhammed Dahlan to Become Leader in Gaza Strip
Amid an escalating conflict between Hamas and the Fatah-ruled Palestinian Authority (PA), a leaked and unconfirmed document obtained by Ma’an News Agency in Gaza has noted that discharged Fatah leader and President Mahmoud Abbas’ political […]

‘The Art of Sharing Life’: Documenting Life in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon (Part IV)
Following three days of training in Shatila camp in Beirut, and a day of fieldwork, participants in the ‘The Art of Sharing Life Stories with the Masses’, produced twelve projects, each of which conveyed a […]

Israeli Opposition Leader Says Israeli Politics Fascist, US Peace Deal Will Fail
Issac Herzog, Israel’s opposition party leader, accused on Saturday the government of shifting towards a “fascist” trend. According to The Jerusalem Post, speaking at a cultural event, Zionist Union Party Chairman Issac Herzog said, the […]

Rights Groups Denounce Investigation of Breaking the Silence Spokesman
Amid an ongoing investigation of a spokesman for ‘Breaking the Silence’ over a testimony in which he claimed to have seriously assaulted a Palestinian during his service with the Israeli army, a number of Israeli […]

Wolves in the Gaza Chicken House
By James M. Wall Have you seen the Hollywood film that flashes back to February, 2006, when Palestinians elected a Hamas party parliamentary majority. I didn’t think so, because there is no such film available. An […]

On ISIL, Arab TV and Post-Ideological Politics
By Jamil Khader Saudi-owned TV channel MBC finally caved in to the barrage of scathing criticism of its Ramadan series, Black Crows, pulling it off air after only 20 episodes. MBC has marketed the Black […]

US Administration Considers Walking Away from Peace Talks
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was reportedly left “furious” by a recent meeting with US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, according to a report Saturday from London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat […]

‘The Art of Sharing Life’: Documenting Life in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon (Part III)
Following three days of training in Shatila camp in Beirut, and a day of fieldwork, participants in the ‘The Art of Sharing Life Stories with the Masses’, produced twelve projects, each of which conveyed a […]

‘The Art of Sharing Life’: Documenting Life in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon (Part II)
Following three days of training in Shatila camp in Beirut, and a day of fieldwork, participants in the ‘The Art of Sharing Life Stories with the Masses’, produced twelve projects, each of which conveyed a […]

Why the US Moving Its Israel Embassy to Jerusalem Would Be Illegal
By Jeremy R. Hammond The mainstream media serve Israel’s occupation regime by failing to inform that for the US to relocate its Israel embassy to Jerusalem would be illegal. On June 1, the White House announced […]

Israel Closes Banks Accounts as Means of Displacing Palestinians in Jerusalem
Israel is closing the bank accounts of Arab institutions in Jerusalem in an effort to displace Jerusalemites and force them out of the city, the Palestinian Department of Jerusalem Affairs has said. In a press […]