By Jamal Kanj In his 1787 farewell speech, George Washington warned, “… foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.” Washington’s compatriots were more specific. Later in the same year, John […]
By Benay Blend January 27, 2020, was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the end of a traumatic era that should have turned “Never Again” into a commitment to […]
Israeli occupation authorities have started the build of a new road that would link the illegal Jewish settlements of Eli and Shilo – in the north of the occupied West Bank – with the Jordan […]
A Democratic US congresswoman called the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) a “hate group” on Tuesday after the pro-Israel lobby ran a Facebook advertisement implying her to be “more sinister” than Islamic State group. Betty McCollum, who has previously […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In a testimony made through his lawyer to the Committee of Prisoners and Former Prisoners Affairs, Palestinian teenage prisoner Mahmoud Thawabteh revealed details about the difficult conditions inside Israeli prisons. […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israel lashed out at the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday, soon after the UN body revealed a list of companies that have ties with illegal Jewish […]
A Palestinian-owned house in the Old City quarter of occupied Jerusalem partially collapsed today as a result of ongoing underground excavations by Israeli authorities and illegal settler organizations. Expert warns of collapse of Jerusalem buildings […]
Israeli army today morning carried out military drills in several areas in the northern Jordan Valley. Sealed Off and Forgotten: What You Should Know about Israel’s ‘Firing Zones’ in the West Bank | Article by: […]
A network of pro-Israel lawyers is gearing up to fight the implementation of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on the labeling of products from illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. According […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) has finally released a long-delayed report, on Wednesday, listing over one hundred businesses that have ties with illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied […]
By Ramzy Baroud A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole new path […]
By Jeremy Salt A reiteration of the war on Palestine, on the Arab world, on the Muslim world, on international law and human rights. There is no other way to describe the Trump-Kushner-Netanyahu ‘deal.’ Media […]
By Yves Engler Last month the Canadian Embassy in Tel Aviv held an event to celebrate Canadians fighting in the Israeli military. They invited all 78 Canadians in the IDF to the ambassador’s residence to demonstrate their […]
Leftist members of the European Parliament demanded on Tuesday concrete actions from the European Union (EU) in favor of Palestine and the end of an association agreement with Israel, following the U.S. plan for the […]
Israeli soldiers arrested a 13-year-old Palestinian child, identified as Amer Oweidat, from his home in Al-Arroub refugee camp, in Hebron (Al-Khalil). A video posted on social media shows the mother crying and running after Amer who […]
Israeli soldiers desecrated today the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) when they broke into it, forcing the Muslim employees and staff to leave it, according to officials from the […]
It has been described by the Times of Israel newspaper as “one of the largest and most compromising leaks of Israelis’ personal information in the nation’s history”, and foreign intelligence agencies may have already seized […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Appearing before the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Washington’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’. Holding a copy of a map used by the […]
By Jim Miles (The Age of Illusions – How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory. Andrew J. Bacevich. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, NewYork, 2020.) Another in his series of remarkable books, Andrew J.Bacevich has […]
By Ramona Wadi The Palestinian Authority has learned nothing from decades of futile UN Security Council Resolutions. Do the people of Palestine really need international consensus regarding the already very clear illegality of US President […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Leader of Blue and White party and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main opponent in the forthcoming elections in March, Benny Gantz, accused the government of failing to stop Palestinian […]
By Michael Lescher (These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons, by Ramzy Baroud, Clarity Press, Inc., 2020) Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that “the degree of civilization in a society […]
An Israeli court on Monday sentenced the head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Raed Salah, to 28 months in prison for “inciting to terror” in a series of speeches he made […]
Israeli forces today arrested ten Palestinians from several areas of the occupied West Bank and six others in Jerusalem, including minors, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). In a press release, PPS stated that […]
A number of Palestinian residents of Al Arroub refugee camp in the south of the West Bank suffered severe teargas suffocation today, during clashes that erupted with Israeli forces, reported WAFA correspondent. #Palestinian Rights and […]
By Palestine Chronicle Staff US envoy David Friedman warned Israel on Sunday not to declare sovereignty over West Bank without Washington’s consent, rejecting calls for immediate action by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his […]
By Ron Forthofer President Trump’s fraudulent Middle East deal runs roughshod over Palestinian rights, harms long-term Israeli interests, and is only the latest example of the US arrogance and disdain for international law. Essentially Trump’s […]
A Palestinian young man was beaten up and arrested on Sunday, for defending his wife from Israeli soldiers at his house in Beit Ummar in northern Hebron (Al-Khalil). Clashes in HebronIsraeli occupation forces raided the […]
By Marion Kawas On January 28, 2020, US President Donald Trump unveiled the details of his ‘Deal of the Century’ in Washington D.C. with Benjamin Netanyahu by his side. Many of these details had been […]
By Ramona Wadi Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas continues to provide proof of his worthlessness when it comes to political decision-making. If the US “continues” with the so-called deal of the century, Abbas has threatened […]
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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