By Benay Blend As Thanksgiving 2019 fades into the past so does the call for commemorating not the Pilgrims’ feast but rather the colonialist history of America. As Joel Doerfler observes, so, too, does the […]
By Ramona Wadi During the Berlin European Council summit in 1999, the European Union declared “its readiness to consider the recognition of a Palestinian state in due course” and conditionally dependent upon the Oslo framework, as […]
Israel approved an extra 40 million shekels ($11.5 million) for settlements in the occupied West Bank yesterday, reported Haaretz. The majority of the funding allocation approved by the cabinet – 34.5 million shekels ($9.9 million) – […]
Palestinians in the Al-Harika neighborhood of Hebron (Al-Khalil) are being subjected to repeated attacks by Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers, reported human rights NGO B’Tselem, as the organization published details of five such documented attacks […]
Israeli occupation forces arrested the brother of Sami Abu Diak, a cancer-stricken Palestinian political prisoner who died last week while in Israeli custody, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. Following the invasion in Sielet […]
A Palestinian teenager was shot dead on November 30 by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beit Awwa, to the west of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the southern West Bank, according to the Ministry of […]
Israeli forces on Sunday morning assaulted students and prevented them from attending their school in the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, local sources said. Israeli […]
By Jim Miles (Build Resistance not Walls: A Reader for a World without Walls. Ed. Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop the Wall. November 09, 2019.) A collection of essays concerning the boundaries being established […]
By Marion Kawas On November 20, 2019, Israel advocacy club Herut Canada held a public meeting entitled “Reservists on Duty” at York University in Toronto. The meeting billed itself as a chance to hear from […]
A Jordanian prince secretly met with Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin in London, Israeli media reported on Wednesday, just days after King Abdullah confirmed relations between the two were at “an all-time low.” Prince Ghazi bin Mohammed, a senior […]
Israeli warplanes attacked early this morning a post in the north of Gaza Strip causing damage but no casualties, reported WAFA correspondent. The warplanes fired three missiles at the post causing fire and damage to […]
A fragment of wood reputed to be from the manger where Jesus was laid after his humble birth arrived in Bethlehem from the Vatican on Saturday, kicking off Christmas season at the town revered as […]
By Jonathan Cook The decision to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on three separate criminal counts pushes the country’s already unprecedented electoral stalemate into the entirely uncharted territory of a constitutional crisis. There is […]
Senior officials joined ambassadors and other representatives from the international community in New York on Wednesday to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, officially observed each year on November 29. Established […]
A Palestinian teenager has been killed and five others wounded by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. According to Gaza’s ministry of health, 16-year-old Fahd al-Astal died after he was shot in the stomach […]
Israeli authorities have recently advanced a number of settlement plans across occupied East Jerusalem, according to an update issued yesterday by NGO Ir Amim. The most significant development, as reported this week, was the start of construction […]
By Benay Blend In a journal article entitled “Invention, Memory, and Place,” the late Edward W. Said focuses on the question of collective memory: what is remembered, how, and in what form? According to Said, […]
By Maher Massis Many Virginians recently celebrated as both houses of the Virginia legislature came under Democratic Party control. In the past 30 years, the state has shifted from being a conservative Republican state to […]
Israeli bulldozers today razed large swathes of Palestinian farmlands to the west of Husan village, located near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local official. Hassan Breijeh, head of the local anti-wall […]
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Senate last week rejected a resolution to join an academic boycott of Israel. The ballot, held on Friday, saw 68 percent of the 363 members oppose the proposal which would […]
Fatah is ready to run in the Palestinian elections alongside Hamas, a member of the movement’s Central Committee Azzam Al-Ahmad said yesterday. In an interview with Al-Resalah, Al-Ahmad said that Hanna Nasser, the head of the […]
The Jordanian authorities have asked Israel to release the body of Palestinian prisoner Sami Abu Diak, 37, who died in prison on Tuesday after three years of battling cancer and alleged medical negligence, Quds Press reported on […]
By Ramzy Baroud It is hardly a major surprise that the US government has finally decreed that illegal Jewish settlements built in defiance of international law are somehow “consistent” with the said law. US […]
26 Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire today overnight as hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, said medical sources. Israeli forces escorted a […]
Head of Yisrael Beiteinu party Avigdor Lieberman stressed on Monday that he would reject holding a Knesset committee meeting to discuss providing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immunity, Quds Press reported. This came just one day after […]
The Israeli government is aiming to increase the volume of Israel’s defense exports, reported Globes, which has revealed the main points of the plan for the first time. The project, being overseen by the Defence […]
Israeli occupation forces have escalated their arrest raids in Issawiya, occupied East Jerusalem, in the face of continued protests at months of violence and harassment, reported Haaretz. Yesterday, the paper reported, Israeli police officers arrested […]
The Blue and White party has opened up a significant lead over Likud, according to a new poll published today, right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva reported. According to the poll, commissioned by Channel 12, the Benny Gantz-led list […]
Palestinian prisoner Sami Abu Diak, who was suffering from cancer, has died in prison this morning, according to prisoners advocacy groups. Israel has rejected several appeals to release him on humanitarian grounds so that he […]
Israel has “tightened its restrictions” for Palestinian farmers trying to access their land located on the other side of the illegal Separation Wall, reported Haaretz. Most of the Wall’s route lies inside the occupied Palestinian territory – […]
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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