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Month: March 2021

Kafkaesque Politics: The Missing Lessons from Israel’s Latest Elections
By Ramzy Baroud A ‘major setback’ was the recurring term in many news headlines reporting on the outcome of Israel’s general elections of March 23. While this depiction specifically referred to Israeli Prime Minister […]

Passover 2021: Who are the Modern-Day Pharaohs?
By Benay Blend “We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire,” said Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, “but we say you put fire out best with water. […]

Jewish Settlers Storm Palestinian Archeological Site in West Bank
Jewish settlers today stormed an archaeological site in As-Samu’ town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local and security sources confirmed that dozens of […]

Palestinians Seek EU Support for East Jerusalem Elections
The Palestinians have asked the European Union to use its influence to ensure Israel allows its citizens in occupied East Jerusalem to vote in the upcoming Palestinian legislative and presidential elections. Earlier reports suggested that […]

Reports: Marwan Barghouti Submits Electoral List for Legislative Elections
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has submitted an independent list for Palestinian legislative elections in May, according to The New Arab’s Arabic-language site. The development is the latest sign of turmoil raging in the Fatah […]

Why Palestinian Prisoners Matter? Ramzy Baroud Speaks to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (VIDEO)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In his talk at the Congress of South African Trade Unions, COSATU’s Virtual Conversation, Palestinian author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud, talks about the centrality of Palestinian […]

Palestinians Mark Land Day, March of Return (PHOTOS)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinians at home and in Shataat marked the 45th anniversary of Land Day, which falls on March 30 of every year, with rallies and marches in Palestinian Arab towns inside […]

Land Day 2021: Existence, Resistance, Resurgence
By Benay Blend “In 2019 I went to Palestine twice,” wrote Ibtisam Barakat, “one time with Palestine Festival of literature in April.” When an officer informed her at the border that she didn’t exist in […]

Quartet Rhetoric Normalizes Israel’s Unilateral Decisions
By Ramona Wadi The Trump era is over, or so the Middle East Quartet would have us believe. Now that the Zionist colonization project is back to contending diplomatically with the two-state compromise, the main […]

New Poll: Marwan Barghouti to Win Palestine Presidential Elections
Imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is expected to get the largest number of votes if he runs for president, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, Khalil Shikaki, said yesterday. Speaking about […]

Palestinian Prisoner Enters Day 40 of Hunger Strike in Protest against Administrative Detention
A Palestinian prisoner is on his 40th day of hunger strike, in protest against his prolonged administrative detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). The PPS said in a statement that Imad Batran, 47, […]

Palestinian Voices Welcomed into the Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament
By Neil Ballantyne Fulfilling an earlier promise to “raise the voices of Palestinian people” in the parliament of Aotearoa New Zealand, just last week, Wellington Palestine and Alternative Jewish Voices were welcomed into parliament by […]

Nuclear Weapons Blazing: Britain Enters the US-China Fray
By Ramzy Baroud Boris Johnson’s March 16 speech before the British Parliament was reminiscent, at least in tone, to that of Chinese President Xi Jinping on the 70th anniversary of the founding of the […]

Jewish Faculty Members in Canada Oppose Adoption of IHRA Antisemitism Definition
Amid growing concern over the weaponizing of antisemitism by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, Jewish faculty members in Canadian universities are opposing the adoption of the highly controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) […]

Yair Lapid Meets Mansour Abbas in Bid to Reach Coalition Agreement
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid on Sunday met with Head of the Ra’am Party Mansour Abbas to discuss forming a coalition government, Israeli media reported. Abbas, according to Ynet News, presented his movement’s demands to […]

Palestinian Injured in Jewish Settlers’ Attack
A Palestinian youth was injured on Sunday evening during a Jewish settlers’ attack on the village of Kufr ad-Dik, near the occupied West Bank city of Salfit. Faris al-Dik, an activist, told WAFA that about […]

What is It About Us? Are We Homicidal by Nature?
By Jim Miles I have just watched Michael Moore’s latest Rumble podcast in which he asks the question “What is it about us?” while referencing the Columbine massacre and relating it to the current set […]

MSO Organizes Conference to Commemorate Palestine’s Land Day in New Delhi
By Mohammed Anas The Muslim Students Organization of India, an outfit dedicated to moderate Islamic thoughts and justice-inclined Indian policies, organized a conference on the subject, “What Role Can India Play As A Friend of […]

From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea – Book Review
By Liza Foreman (From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea, by Adel A. Dajani. Published by Zuleika London on March 11, 2021.) What happened to the families of Palestine? Those that were ushered out […]

Euro-Med Report: 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza are Denied Identity Documents
Thousands of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have been deprived of identity documents and consequently, several basic rights, most notably the right to freedom of movement, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a […]

Palestinian Worker Severely Injured while Chased by Israeli Forces
A Palestinian worker was severely injured today after he fell on the ground while being chased by Israeli occupation soldiers near the Israeli apartheid wall, near Jenin, according to local sources, WAFA reported. Palestinian workman […]

Drugs, Surveillance and the ‘War on Terror: Will Drones Really Protect Us?
By Maya Evans I’m seated in the police Zoom briefing with other council representatives for my small seaside town in England. Our Chief Inspector is telling us about the crisis we have with soaring heroin […]

Reports: Netanyahu Starts Contacts with Arab MK to Form Coalition Government
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has started contacts with Arab Israeli MK Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Movement’s southern branch, to form a new coalition government, Israeli media reported on Friday. “There is no […]

Israeli Forces Attack Weekly Anti-Settlement Protest in Kafr Qaddum, Injure Palestinian Child
A Palestinian child was injured today and many others sustained suffocation from gas inhalation, as Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of activists protesting in the village of Kafr Qaddum, near the city of Qalqilia in […]

‘Jerusalem Declaration’ Insists BDS is Not Anti-Semitic, in Disagreement with IHRA Definition
In the latest opposition to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, favored by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, a group of over 200 academics and experts have created a […]

Israeli Authorities Impose Travel Ban on Al-Aqsa Mosque Imam
The Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a travel ban on Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, the president of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, Wafa news agency has reported. Sheikh Sabri is banned from traveling abroad for […]

Jewish Settlers Assault, Injure Palestinian Man near Bethlehem
A Palestinian man sustained injuries today in an attack by illegal Jewish settlers in the village of Al-Khader, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. A group of […]

PA Prime Minister Welcomes US Financial Aid to PA
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh welcomed on Thursday the announcement of US financial aid to the Palestinian Authority to help fight the COVID-19 outbreak. Shtayyeh described the US financial assistance in a press statement […]

Leading Hamas Member in West Bank, Omar Barghouti, Passes away
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Following a month of struggle against the COVID-19 disease, freed Palestinian prisoner and highly-respected leader within the Islamic movement in the West Bank, Omar Barghouti, passed away in a Ramallah […]

We are Living through a Time of Fear, Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other
By Jonathan Cook Welcome to the age of fear. Nothing is more corrosive of the democratic impulse than fear. Left unaddressed, it festers, eating away at our confidence and empathy. We are now firmly in […]