Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned American ‘silence’ on Tuesday and insisted that the US administration “must turn its talk into action,” the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Abbas made his comments during a […]
By Benay Blend In “Food Sovereignty as a Path to Liberation,” Adala Justice Project and American Friends Service Committee combined resources to cover a recent public conversation hosted by Mohammed AbuJayyab and Asmaa Abu Mezied, […]
Two major American media outlets confirmed, in two separate reports, that Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli army gunfire, and one even suggested that she was deliberately targeted, the official Palestinian news […]
By Jim Miles Words are important. Using the word ‘rampant’ in the title gives the real image of racism: not some narrow right-wing ethos that surfaces occasionally into violence, but something that is “violent or […]
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday condemned a decision by the US State Department to remove the Jewish extremist group Kach from its list of terrorist organizations, The New Arab reported. The extremist group, which was […]
The White House has not yet set a date for US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, and this likely stems from the political crisis in Israel and the possibility of the government’s collapse, Israeli […]
A number of US congress members introduced to the US House on Monday a bill that recognizes the Palestinian Nakba, the forced expulsion and ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians 74 years ago, the official […]
US President Joe Biden is considering a visit to occupied East Jerusalem during his upcoming visit to Israel in June, an Israeli official told CNN. The official said Biden would possibly visit Al-Makassed Hospital in […]
Israeli authorities plan to build 3,988 new settlement units in two areas across the occupied Palestinian West Bank, Israeli media reported. The Israeli Higher Planning Council for Judea and Samaria (the Israeli name for the […]
The United States State Department criticized Friday Israeli plans to expand the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying they exacerbate tensions and undermine trust between the parties, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA […]
By Ramzy Baroud Palestinians are justifiably worried that the mandate granted to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, might be coming to an end. UNRWA’s mission, which has been in effect since […]
Harvard University’s student-run daily newspaper has announced its support for and endorsement of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the Israeli occupation, making it one of the most significant steps by an American […]
By Iqbal Jassat Finally, with a devastating war on its doorstep, Europe called out Russia for committing crimes of “collective punishment” – a term it studiously avoids using against Israel. For Europe, America and the […]
By Jim Miles (Giving up is not an option: Memoirs of a Palestinian American. Hani Q. Khoury. Amazon, 2021.) In an interesting short work, Giving up is not an option – Memoirs of a Palestinian […]
Sixty percent of academics and scholars in Middle Eastern studies across several American universities have described Israel’s occupation of Palestine as “a one state reality akin to apartheid,” a new survey shows. Conducted jointly by […]
By Richard Falk There is no doubt that atrocities have been committed in Ukraine, seemingly yet not exclusively by Russian attacking forces, and in a perfect world, those who so acted would be held responsible. […]
By Ramzy Baroud Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across the world, […]
19 influential rabbis in New York City have signed a letter accusing a major American Jewish charity of indirectly funding right-wing extremists in Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on Thursday. The rabbis called on […]
By Ramzy Baroud When Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kyiv should an agreement […]
The largest Middle East academic body in North America protested on Tuesday an Israeli directive denying Palestinians the right to education, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) said […]
By Ramzy Baroud When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to […]
The Tzedek Chicago Synagogue has declared itself to be “anti-Zionist” in a statement decrying the creation of Israel as an “injustice against the Palestinian people”, the Middle East Monitor reported on Monday. The synagogue was […]
By Palestine Deep Dive In a lively and illuminating discussion with Palestine Deep Dive (PDD), Mark Seddon and renowned journalist and President of the Foreign Press Association – New York City, Ian Williams, shine a […]
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) overwhelmingly voted on Thursday in favor of a resolution aimed at ensuring accountability and achieving justice in Palestine, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates announced in […]
By Jim Miles (The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Robert Fisk. Fourth Estate – HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2005.) Robert Fisk (1946-2020) was the penultimate war reporter for the second half […]
By Issa Khalaf Most people of goodwill and strong politico-moral sense who seek justice and fairness, all of us who are just plain human, naturally desire to be consistent in how we assess and judge […]
Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid has been featured as the cover model on the latest US issue of Vogue magazine, with whom she spoke about her sympathies with the Palestinian people, The New Arab reported on […]
Fifty members of the US House of Representatives from the Democratic Party have asked US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to prevent Israel from forcefully evicting 38 Palestinian families and demolishing their occupied West Bank […]
By Ramzy Baroud How the tables have turned. A high-level US delegation visited Venezuela on March 5, hoping to repair economic ties with Caracas. Venezuela, one of the world’s poorest countries partly due to […]
Israeli prime minister has criticized the US intention to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from its list of foreign “terror organizations”, Israeli media reported. This move, said Naftali Bennett, would be “expensive”. According to […]
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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