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Month: May 2019

Reporters Without Borders: Israel Shot Journalists Intentionally
The director-general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday that the Israeli army had deliberately targeted journalists in the occupied Gaza Strip. Christophe Deloire was speaking to the Jerusalem Post, having received the Dan David Prize […]

Palestine Refuses to Attend ‘Peace’ Conference in Bahrain
Palestinian officials will not attend a US-led economic conference in Bahrain next month, a Palestinian cabinet minister said on Monday. Social Development Minister Ahmed Majdalani, who is also a member of the executive committee of the […]

Israeli Officials to Travel to Bahrain for ‘Peace’ Conference
Israeli officials will travel to Bahrain for next month’s “peace” conference, where the first stage of the US’ “deal of the century” is set to be revealed. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 13 yesterday, a senior Israeli official […]

The Chidren’s Voices – A Poem
By Stephen Brackens Brinkley The children’s voices, can’t you hear some voices distant, some voices near Some are calm, but most are not in their beds or on a cot Children sleeping having dreams but […]

The International Community Makes a Mockery of Human Rights
By Ramona Wadi While Palestinians commemorated their ongoing Nakba and perpetual trauma inflicted by Zionist settler-colonialism, the US and Israel lauded each other on the 1st anniversary of Donald Trump’s unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as […]

Two Palestinian Prisoners Continue Their Hunger Strike for 49 Days
Two Palestinian prisoners have been on hunger for 49 days to protest their administrative detention, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) said today. Odeh Hroub and Hasan Awawi are having serious health issues as a result […]

Israeli Broadcaster: Iceland Could Be ‘Punished’ for Palestinian Flag Display at Eurovision (VIDEO)
The Israeli broadcaster of the Eurovision said Iceland could be punished for holding up Palestinian flags during live coverage of the competition’s voting results. Members of the Hatari group held up Palestinian flags with ‘Palestine’ […]

Israeli Army Says ‘No Evidence’ Soldiers Killed Disabled Gaza Protester in 2017 (VIDEO)
An investigation by the Israeli army has found “no evidence” that it killed disabled Palestinian Ibrahim Abu Thuraya, who was shot dead during a protest in the Gaza Strip in December 2017. The Israeli army’s […]

South Africa ANC Backs Minister on Israeli Embassy Downgrade
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party has backed the country’s Minister of International Relations, Lindiwe Sisulu, who has come under attack for her role in downgrading South Africa’s embassy to Israel. Sisulu has […]

Iceland’s Hatari Holds Up Palestinian Flags at Eurovision 2019 (VIDEO)
The Icelandic band Hatari created a stir at Eurovision 2019 when they displayed banners in support of Palestine, highlighting the controversial nature of this year’s competition hosted in Tel Aviv, Israel. The band, who landed the […]

Israeli Forces Evict Muslim Worshippers from Al Aqsa Mosque
Israeli forces forcibly evicted hundreds of Muslim worshippers from the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, on Saturday night. Israeli police prevented them from keeping an all-night worship vigil in it, according to local […]

Israeli Minister, Jewish Settlers Storm Al Aqsa Mosque
Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, headed today a group of extremist Israeli settlers in a provocative tour of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem. Ariel and dozens of settlers stormed the Islamic […]

PA ‘Ready to Talk’ about Confederation with Jordan
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has said that it is ready to talk about the prospect of a confederation with Jordan, drawing fierce condemnation from the Kingdom. The PA’s Ambassador to Moscow, Abdel-Hafeez Nofal, said that […]

Palestinian Dies at Israeli Checkpoint While Trying to Reach Al-Aqsa (VIDEO)
A Palestinian man has died at an Israeli checkpoint while trying to reach Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers. Sixty-three-year-old Sulieman Jamal Al-Harroub from West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) died while crossing an Israeli […]

Syrian State Television: Air Defenses Intercept Missiles Coming from Israel
Syrian air defenses have targeted projectiles coming from “occupied territory”, a reference to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and brought some of them down, Syrian state television reported. Loud blasts echoed across Damascus late on Friday, residents […]

Israel Creates a New Political Normal
By James A. Wall Adam Shatz, writing in the London Review of Books, described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legislative victory on April 9, as a “tribute” to his “transformation of the political landscape”. He wrote: […]

Israeli Authorities Drastically Reduce Gaza Fishing Zone
Israeli authorities have decided to drastically reduce the permitted fishing zone off Gaza’s coast “until further notice,” on Thursday. Head of the Palestinian Fishermen Union in Gaza, Zakariya Bakr, told Ma’an that Israeli authorities reduced […]

PPCS: Israel Arrested 100 Palestinians in First Ten Days of Ramadan
A Palestinian human rights organization said it has documented the arrest of 100 Palestinians; including 18 children and four women, by Israeli occupation forces during the first ten days of the holy month of Ramadan. […]

Germany to Pass Resolution Condemning BDS Movement as ‘Anti-Semitic’
The German Bundestag (parliament) is set to pass a resolution, on Friday, condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) as anti-Semitic and urges the government not to fund groups or activities that question Israel’s […]

A Palestinian Hunger Strike: ‘Bury Me in My Mother’s Grave’
By Ramzy Baroud & Fayha Shalash One of the many ways in which Israel seeks to oppress and control the Palestinian population is by imprisoning those who lead the resistance to its occupation and settler colonialist project. […]

The UN Is a Mouthpiece for Israeli Propaganda, Not a Threat to the Colonial State
By Ramona Wadi Only a few days before the Palestinian commemoration of the 1948 Nakba, in which the indigenous people of Palestine were massacred, displaced and ethnically cleansed to pave the way for the European […]

Report: Israel Leads in Global Attacks on Medical Facilities, Workers
Israel committed the highest number of attacks on healthcare facilities, workers and vehicles last year, according to a new report authored by international human rights and medical groups. Worldwide there were at least 973 attacks […]

Palestine Urges Atletico Madrid to Cancel Game Against Beitar in Jerusalem
The chief of the Palestinian Football Federation (PFF), Jibril Rajoub, has sent letters to the European and Spanish football associations asking for Atletico Madrid to cancel a post-season May 21 friendly match with Israeli Beitar […]

Jewish Settlers, Israeli Army Intensify Attacks against Palestinian Shepherds
Israeli army and Jewish settlers have been intensifying their attacks against Palestinian shepherds in the northern Jordan Valley region of the West Bank. According to human rights organization B’Tselem, recent months have seen “an upsurge in […]

Netanyahu Could Form Minority amid Coalition Impasse
Recently re-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering forming a minority government, an unprecedented move in Israeli politics. Since Israel’s general election on 9 April, Netanyahu has been engaged in coalition talks with a number of right-wing political […]

Stories from the Homeland – A Palestinian Film by Zarefah Baroud (VIDEO)
Palestinian-American young filmmaker, Zarefah Baroud talks to her aunt in Gaza, Dr. Suma Baroud and her father, Palestinian author and journalist, Dr. Ramzy Baroud about the Nakba, growing up in a refugee camp and their […]

The PA Wants the EU to Help, Not the Resistance
By Ramona Wadi The EU must clearly and unequivocally state that it has abandoned the Palestinian people to complete political isolation. The recent Israeli air strikes on Gaza have not only revealed the UN’s scheming in terms […]

The Zionist Idea Has Never Been More Terrifying Than It Is Today
By Rima Najjar On this seventy-first annual commemoration of Palestine’s Jewish-state Nakba, let’s resolve not to continue to oversimplify things. Whether you believe the American rabbi and historian Arthur Hertzberg’s assessment of the Zionist idea […]

Missing the Point about Peace
By Maaz Khan Something you’ll often hear about the conflict in Palestine, usually from those unfamiliar with the conflict or those who want to obscure its realities, is that both sides want peace. They usually […]

The Management of Savagery – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Management of Savagery – How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump. Max Blumenthal. Verso, London/New York, 2019.) Even though the ending is known, Max […]