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Month: July 2019

Israeli Arms Company Signs $100m Deal with Indian Army
An Israeli arms company has signed a $100 million deal with the Indian army and air force, under which 1,000 missile kits will be transferred to the South Asian state. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems – […]

Israeli Forces Injure, Arrest Palestinians after Destroying Obeid’s Memorial
Israeli forces yesterday arrested two Palestinians and wounded five others in the Issawiya neighborhood located in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre. They also destroyed a monument Palestinian residents had built-in memory […]

Amnesty Urges TripAdvisor to Shun Illegal Jewish Settlements
International human rights group Amnesty International has stepped up a campaign to demand that TripAdvisor stops listing tourist attractions and properties in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The rights group addressed an open letter […]

Netanyahu Meets with Head of Ukrainian Party, Including Neo-Nazis (VIDEO)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday met with the head of the Ukrainian Radical Party, whose members include neo-Nazis and extreme nationalists, the Times of Israel reported. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today, at the Prime Minister's […]

Netanyahu Vows to Retain Every Illegal Jewish Settlement in West Bank
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed never to dismantle Jewish illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Speaking yesterday at an event in the settlement of Revava – which forms part of the Ariel […]

The Book of Palestine: National Liberation Vs Endless Negotiations
By Ramzy Baroud Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington’s complete adoption of Israel’s messianic, extremist policies […]

Boris Johnson: As a ‘Passionate Zionist’, I ‘Love’ Israel
UK prime ministerial hopeful Boris Johnson has said that he “loves” the “great country” of Israel and considers himself a “passionate Zionist”. In an exclusive interview with UK newspaper Jewish News, Johnson – the former British foreign […]

Lieberman: ‘Our Conflict is with the Entire Muslim World’
Former Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, a possible kingmaker in September’s elections, renewed his incitement against Palestinian citizens on Monday, as reported by the Times of Israel. Speaking at a campaign trail meeting in Kiryat Ono, […]

Israel Evicts Palestinian Family from Jerusalem (VIDEO)
Israeli police this morning forced a Palestinian family out of their house in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, WAFA reported. Silwan-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center posted a video showing occupation forces and settlers storming the house and […]

Do FIFA and Its President Infantino Publicly Declare Their Absolute Complicity with Israel?
By Issam Khalidi Just recently at the United States-brokered conference in Bahrain FIFA pledged to build more football pitches in the Palestinian “Territories” to present the economic side of a settlement plan for the Israeli-Palestinian […]

The Plot to Keep Jeremy Corbyn Out of Power
By Jonathan Cook In the latest of the interminable media “furores” about Jeremy Corbyn’s supposed unfitness to lead Britain’s Labour party – let alone become prime minister – it is easy to forget where we […]

The (Continuing) Vilification of Richard Falk
By Jeremy Salt In one of his blogs Richard Falk, who has made many trips to Africa, talked of his love of giraffes. They have no vocal cords, which cannot be said of him, but […]

Israeli FM Flies over Saudi Airspace with Riyadh’s Permission (VIDEO)
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz flew through Saudi Arabia’s airspace while making an official visit to the United Arab Emirates last week, Israeli media reported. Katz attended an international climate summit in Abu Dhabi last week and […]

Palestinian Children’s Right to Education Denied in Israeli Prisons
Palestinian children from Jerusalem arrested by Israeli occupation forces are subjected to “a deliberate policy to de-educate”, reported prisoners’ rights group Addameer. According to Addameer, “Over 800 Palestinian children from Jerusalem were arrested in 2018”, and […]

Jewish Settlers Confiscate Funds Raised to Help Palestinian Family Facing Eviction
A right-wing Israeli settlement group has confiscated money raised to help a Palestinian family facing eviction from their home in Jerusalem. The Elad Association is a notorious right-wing group which works to encourage Jewish settlement […]

Baroud at PalExpo: ‘The Whole State of Israel Is a Settlement’
Organized by the British NGO Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), Palestine Expo has been dubbed the ‘biggest Palestine event in Europe‘, being held in the iconic Olympia Exhibition Centre in London. The Palestine Chronicle chief editor, […]

Six Palestinian Prisoners Continue Hunger Strike, Protesting Administrative Detention
Six Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails have been on hunger strike for more than three weeks, protesting against their administrative detention, the PLO’s Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Committee said on Saturday. According to […]

Netanyahu Uses DNA Claim to Deny Palestinian Right to Homeland
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday tweeted that the Palestinians’ connection to the Land of Israel is nothing compared to the 4,000-year connection that the Jewish people have with the land. He cited a recent article stating […]

Israeli Students Forced to Pass Propaganda Course before Overseas School Trips
The Israeli government is compelling high school students to pass an online propaganda course before being allowed to participate in overseas class trips, a course promoting “racist ideology”. Legal rights center Adalah has written to the Education […]

Does Justin Trudeau Hate Palestinians?
By Yves Engler Is Justin Trudeau a racist? He and his government certainly accept and promote anti-Palestinianism. Two recent moves reaffirm his government’s pattern of blaming Palestinians for their dispossession and subjugation. Last week the […]

The International Community is Facilitating Palestine’s Demise
By Ramona Wadi The UN has contributed another contradiction in its assessment of Palestinian prospects following the “Peace to Prosperity” summit. Instead of highlighting how and why the UN has failed Palestine, a recent statement […]

Jewish Settlers Vandalize Palestinian Vehicles near Nablus
Jewish settlers last night slashed the tires of several Palestinian vehicles parked outside homes in the village of Awarta, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors […]

Five Israeli Soldiers Wounded in Occupied Jerusalem
Five Israeli soldiers were wounded by a car on Saturday night, at a military checkpoint near Hizma town, northeast of Occupied Jerusalem, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on July 6. “Emergency services stated that two of the […]

Palestine to Use Biomass for Self Sufficiency
Palestine is embarking on an ambitious project to produce all of their own energy for internal consumption. If successful, it would break its electricity dependence on the Israeli government that frequently leaves the West Bank and Gaza Strip without power. Seeking to reduce […]

Israel Systematically Hides Documents Related to Nakba
Teams from Israel’s Defence Ministry started a decade ago to remove and hide documents from the Israeli archives related to crimes against Palestinians during the Nakba of 1948, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed yesterday. In a long report, Haaretz said […]

PA To Hold Elections if It Fails to Reach Reconciliation with Hamas
Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Thursday that the PA will hold a general election if it fails to reach a reconciliation deal with Hamas. During a celebration for the Palestinian Red […]

Israel Disappointed with Appointment of New EU Foreign Minister
Israel Hayom reported, Thursday, that Israel is disappointed with the appointment of Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell as the new EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. According to the newspaper, […]

More than 20 Palestinians Wounded by Israeli Fire in Gaza (VIDEO)
Hundreds of Palestinians converged near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone on Friday for ongoing protests and more than twenty protesters were wounded by Israeli fire, RT reports. Great March of Return protests continue, live fire and […]

Pro-Expulsion Israeli Party Launches Campaign
Far-right Israeli political party Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) has launched its election campaign by calling for the expulsion of Palestinians to their “countries of origin”. Otzma Yehudit launched its campaign in Jerusalem yesterday ahead of […]

The International Community Has Enabled the ‘Peace to Prosperity’ Sham
By Ramona Wadi The “Peace to Prosperity” workshop was all about making a statement on the normalization of the colonial state of Israel. Forget simply normalizing “ties” with Israel; eliminating the settler-colonial context of the […]