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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 […]

‘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 […]

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 […]

Netanyahu Warns: He Should Form Government or Go for 5th Election
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned on Wednesday that he should be commissioned to form a new government or go for a fifth election, Israeli media reported. Unofficial election results conducted by Israeli mass […]

Israeli Forces Prevent Palestine TV Crew from Reporting in West Bank
Israeli soldiers today barred Palestine TV crew from reporting at Ein al-Bayda village in southern West Bank and forced the crew to leave the area, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli soldiers held the […]

Biden’s Brand of Democracy Isolates the Palestinians
By Ramona Wadi Israel is reportedly concerned that US President Joe Biden will prioritize human rights over traditional allegiances in the Middle East. With a policy shift that departs from the Trump administration’s belligerence, Biden is […]

Elections under Fire: Palestine’s Impossible Democracy Dilemma
By Ramzy Baroud Many Palestinian intellectuals and political analysts find themselves in the unenviable position of having to declare a stance on whether they support or reject upcoming Palestinian elections which are scheduled for […]

PCPA: Palestinians in Exile Should Vote in Election for National Council
The Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA) has called for all Palestinians in the diaspora to take part in the election for the Palestinian National Council. More than 200 Palestinian figures from 26 countries have […]

Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma
By Ramzy Baroud What is taking place in Burma right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government by military […]

‘Dangerous and Deplorable’: Facebook Bans MEMO Staffer for Advertising Recently-Published Book on Hamas
Middle East Monitor (MEMO) and the Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC) in Johannesburg have strongly condemned the decision by Facebook to ban a staff member from using its platform for 30 days after he posted an […]

Breaking the Silence – A Poem
By Timothy McCord There’s come a time when it becomes a crime to speak truth of another’s. When false claims damage good names and cause an outcry: the baying for blood and broken bones so […]

American Newspaper Wins Case Challenging Anti-BDS Law in Arkansas
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The US weekly newspaper Arkansas Times announced on Friday, February 12, that it has won a lawsuit in which it challenged a state law that makes it compulsory – for […]

The IHRA Antisemitism Definition and Racism
By Jim Miles On Thursday, February 11, the Foundation for Middle East Peace held a webinar concerning the IHRA definition and ‘examples’ of antisemitism. The participants were all progressive Jews from the United States and […]

Israel’s Crimes, Legitimacy and Free Speech
By Ron Forthofer Israel is waging an intense campaign against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, a nonviolent campaign called for by Palestinian civil society in 2005. This Movement was modeled on the campaign against […]

B’Tselem’s Historic Declaration: Israel’s Open War on Its Own Civil Society
By Ramzy Baroud “A Regime of Jewish Supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is Apartheid,” was the title of a January 12 report by the Israeli rights group B’Tselem. No […]

Spanish Court Dismisses Criminal Complaint against BDS Activists
The Provincial Court in Valencia, Spain, has definitively dismissed a criminal complaint against eight Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activists who had questioned the invitation for Jewish American singer Matisyahu to take part in the Rototom […]

On B’tselem’s Declaration: Israeli Apartheid from the River to the Sea
By Jeremy Salt B’Tselem’s description of Israel as an apartheid state is valuable because B’Tselem, Israel’s leading human rights organization, is saying it. Otherwise, the reaction should of course it is. B’Tselem applies the word […]

Fearing the Palestinian Narrative: Why Israel Banned ‘Jenin Jenin’
By Ramzy Baroud On January 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mohammad Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with the […]

Israel to Ban Human Rights Groups from School Visits over Use of ‘Apartheid State’
Israel’s education minister is banning groups that call the country an “apartheid state” from making school visits to present information to students, CBS News has reported. Yoav Galant tweeted yesterday that he had instructed the […]

The US and UK May Not Will Assange’s Death, but Everything They are Doing Makes it More Likely
By Jonathan Cook There was a hope in some quarters after Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled on Monday against an application to extradite Julian Assange to the US, where he faced being locked away for the […]

Assange Wins. The Cost: The Crushing of Press Freedom, and the Labeling of Dissent as Mental Illness
By Jonathan Cook The unexpected decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser to deny a US demand to extradite Julian Assange, foiling efforts to send him to a US super-max jail for the rest of his life, […]

Against the Witch Hunt: On the Instrumentalization of Antisemitism in Britain’s Labour Party
By Ronnie Kasrils The assault on free speech within Britain’s Labour Party speaks like a ghost from my past. I was banned from public speaking in apartheid South Africa almost sixty years ago. My crime […]

Antisemitism Claims Mask a Reign of Political and Cultural Terror across Europe
By Jonathan Cook The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has run a fascinating long report this week offering a disturbing snapshot of the political climate rapidly emerging across Europe on the issue of antisemitism. The article documents […]

Moving Past Apartheid: One-State is not Ideal Justice, but It is Just and Possible
By Ramzy Baroud Once again, Europe’s top diplomats expressed their ‘deep concern’ regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions “threaten the viability of the two-state solution”. This position […]

The Task of ‘Sleepy Joe’ is to Put Liberal America Right Back to Sleep
By Jonathan Cook At birth, all of us begin a journey that offers opportunities either to grow – not just physically, but mentally, emotionally and spiritually – or to stagnate. The journey we undertake lasts […]

From Turtle Island to Palestine: On the History of State-Sponsored Violence
By Benay Blend Several years ago, I went to hear a rabbi speak about her trip to “Israel” with Rabbis for Human Rights. During the course of her slide show, she made reference often to […]

The US is Using the Guardian to Justify Jailing Assange for Life: Why is the Paper so Silent?
By Jonathan Cook Julian Assange is not on trial simply for his liberty and his life. He is fighting for the right of every journalist to do hard-hitting investigative journalism without fear of arrest and […]

Open Letter: Labour Party is Suppressing Palestinian Voices and Free Speech on Israel
An open letter signed by over 20 prominent British Palestinians, including academics, journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, musicians and lawyers, expressed concern over the shrinking space in the Labour Party to discuss the Palestinian struggle. They voiced […]

The Likud Conspiracy: Israel in the Throes of a Major Political Crisis
By Ramzy Baroud Protests against Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have raged on for weeks, turning violent sometimes. Israelis are furious at their government’s mediocre response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially as COVID-19 disease is experiencing […]

Tearing down Statues isn’t Vandalism. It’s at the Heart of the Democratic Tradition
By Jonathan Cook It is easy to forget how explicitly racist British society was within living memory. I’m not talking about unconscious prejudice or social media tropes. I’m talking about openly celebrating racism in the […]