Right of Return: Nakba is Back on Palestinian Agenda
By Ramzy Baroud The Nakba is back on the Palestinian agenda. For nearly three decades, Palestinians were told that the Nakba – or Catastrophe – is a thing of the past. That real peace […]
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Crazed Israel Defenders Slander Critics, Ignore the Crime
By Yves Engler If soldiers of some country — say Russia, Canada, or USA — are suspected of killing a journalist covering a story, reasonable people around the world rightly express outrage at the country […]
‘If the Singer is Silenced’: Music of the Unity Intifada
By Louis Brehony As the May 2021 rebellion across historic Palestine struck back at colonialist violence and ripped apart the artificial seams of a terrorized, subordinate coexistence, two worlds came into view, colliding in physical […]
Don’t Turn Your Back on Palestine, Patrick Brown
By Paul Salvatori Patrick Brown, mayor of Brampton (a Toronto suburb) and running for leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, recently took an unexpected stand on Palestine. When asked whether he believes there’s a double […]
‘Our Nakba and Their Independence’: On the Problem with the Zionists’ Version of Two Narratives
By Benay Blend “Israelis celebrate their Independence Day,” Dareen Tatour explains, “but it comes with celebrating the suffering of our ancestors, the displacement of our people and the memory of massacres perpetrated against us over […]
Palestinians Should Never Have to Wait to See Their Families
By Paul Salvatori I have a Palestinian friend who lives near me in Toronto. She wants to visit her family in Gaza but can’t. The authorities, both in Canada and Israel, are making it […]
Palestine as a Song: Grandmothers’ Journeys into Musical Steadfastness
By Louis Brehony Painting land and people in vivid colors, Nazareth-born vocalist and researcher Dalal Abu Amneh embarked in Summer 2021 on a trip around Palestine for the Al Araby 2 series “Mishwar Sitti” (My […]
Remembering the Massacre at Deir Yassin 74 Years Later
On this day in 1948, hundreds of armed Zionist militias from the Irgun and Stern paramilitary organizations walked into the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, near Jerusalem, and carried out a brutal massacre. Deir Yassin […]
Peace and Humanity: Israel is Responsible for Palestinian Violence
By Paul Salvatori Last weekend, I was at a Palestinian demonstration in Toronto, commemorating Land Day. It was held in one of the city’s most visible downtown areas–Dundas Square. During the speeches, a passerby […]
US Synagogue Declares Itself to Be ‘Anti-Zionist’
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 […]
Affirming Global Indigenous Joint Struggle: The Palestinian Right of Return is Landback
By Omar Zahzah A History-Making Paper On March 30, 2022, on the occasion of Palestinian Land Day, the Indigenous organization NDN Collective released a history-making position paper affirming the interconnectedness of the Palestinian struggle to […]
Israel, Palestine and ‘Selective Antisemitism’
By Paul Salvatori The pro-Israel lobby is not genuinely concerned about antisemitism. If it were, the lobby would also be defending Jews who are expressly pro-Palestinian and, on the same basis, attacked as a […]
Israel to Restrict Number of Non-Jewish Ukrainian Refugees to Just 5,000
Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked has announced its intention to cap the number of non-Jewish refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine at just 5,000, The New Arab reported. This is in addition to the 20,000 […]
Vogue Magazine Erases ‘Palestine’ following ‘Zionist’ Backlash
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Palestinian activist Mohammed El-Kurd said in a Tweet on Tuesday that Vogue Magazine removed the word ‘Palestine’ from one of its articles, following backlash from pro-Israel commentators. On Monday, Palestinian-American […]
Shaked: Israel Will Accommodate Thousands of Jewish Immigrants from Ukraine
Israeli interior minister Ayelet Shaked announced that her government would take a decision to set up seven to twelve new ‘residential areas’ in the Negev region “to house new Jewish immigrants,” Israeli media reported “We […]
MAB Condemns Entry of Far-right Israeli Parliamentarian to UK
The Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) has issued a statement on Thursday condemning the entry into the UK of notorious far-right Israeli parliamentarian, Bezalel Smotrich, the Middle East Monitor reported. Smotrich, who heads the Religious […]
The Ontario Government Should Reconsider Engaging with Pro-Israel Groups
By Paul Salvatori Recently the Ontario provincial government announced a formal partnership with two Canadian advocacy groups, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies and Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), both […]
Greenwashing Provides Cover for Zionist Settler-Colonialism
By Omar Zahzah It is a phrase from a longer piece by the Palestinian nationalist poet Mahmoud Darwish that has been frequently cited in standalone translation: “If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted […]
The US Enables Criminal Israeli Behavior
By Ron Forthofer Given all the attention focused on the covid-19 pandemic, the Build Back Better bill, the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the media-hyped crises over Ukraine and Taiwan this past year, […]
If Martin Luther King were Still Alive, Would He Be Held Accountable?
By Benay Blend As Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) celebrations approach in honor of his birthday, there are the annual conversations about the presence of military recruiters at the MLK March in Albuquerque, New Mexico. […]
Let Us Count the Ways Canada Supports Israel’s Crimes
By Yves Engler One of the most disingenuous arguments made by Canadian apologists for Israeli crimes is that it is irrelevant what transpires here. If they genuinely believed this why seek to squash support for […]
Fatah Slams Mansour Abbas for Saying Israel is ‘Jewish State’
The Palestinian movement Fatah on Wednesday described remarks made by Arab Member of the Knesset Mansour Abbas about Israel’s Jewish identity as “cheap alignment with the Zionist narrative”. Fatah accused Abbas of “crossing all red […]
Cat Memes and Good Vibes: On the Commodification of Human Grief
By Benay Blend During the 30 years that I taught American History, there were students—and some administrators—who invariably accused me of not being positive enough in my classes, as if there is some way to […]
On Haaretz: Can Settler Colonialism Be Liberal and Apartheid Be Progressive?
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle Can you imagine in the heyday of Apartheid in South Africa, a political movement or newspaper that would be regarded as liberal, and commended worldwide for its […]
British Academic, Miller, Exonerated from Allegations of Antisemitism
British Professor David Miller has been exonerated for the second time from allegations of antisemitism, leaked documents uncovered by the Electronic Intifada reveal. A report, written by a leading British lawyer, concludes that “there is […]
Crimes without Punishment – Ever
By Jeremy Salt What a chamber of horrors the third millennium has been so far in the Middle East, without even a quarter of it having passed. Iraq, Syria and Yemen on a scale unimaginable […]
The ‘Subjugation Plan’: Smotrich Wants ‘Voluntary Transfer’ of Palestinians
By Yuval Joyce Shalev “I am not talking with you, anti-Zionists, terror-sympathizers, enemies. You’re here by mistake, because [Israel’s first Prime Minister David] Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and didn’t throw you out in 1948. […]
Former Israeli Soldiers Speak out: There is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart
By Jim Miles Last week (2021-11-04), Independent Jewish Voices (IJV – Canada) presented a webinar titled “From IDF to IJV”, telling the story of three Jewish members who were former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) participants, […]
Masar Badil Founded in Madrid, Sao Paolo and Beirut
By Blake Alcott Masar Badil (Alternative Path) is a new movement – as yet a loose group of activists and activist groups rather than a membership organization – working for the liberation of all of […]
Canadian Taxpayer-Subsidized ‘Charities’ Push Israeli University-Military Ties
By Yves Engler Researching registered charities is a window into the pathology of Canadian Zionism. The number, variety and sums raised by taxpayer-subsidized groups focused on Israel is remarkable. Does a country with a GDP per […]
