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Hamas in South Africa: Opening a New Discourse?

By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town Twenty-four hours after President Jacob Zuma’s historic meeting with Hamas leader, Khalid Mesha’al, to cement formal relations, the people…

Oct 22 2015 / Read More » /

Israel is Making an Unprecedented Push into the Youth Wing of Britain’s Conservative Party

The Israeli government, not Britain’s pro-Israel lobby, is engaged in an unprecedented push to capture the hearts and minds of the Conservative Party’s younger members.…

Oct 21 2015 / Read More » /
The chaotic violence of the past weeks looks like a warning from the future – a future Israel is hurtling towards.

Chaos in Jerusalem is a Warning of Things to Come

By Jonathan Cook Among Palestinians and Israelis, the recent upsurge in violence has been variously described as the children’s, lone-wolf, Jerusalem and smartphone intifadas. Each…

Oct 21 2015 / Read More » /
In this intifada, there is no room for talk about two states for two peoples.

On the Intifada’s Distinction and Uniqueness

By Lama Khater It has reached its twentieth day and vigour is still its clearest characteristic. It is still clawing its way through the boulders…

Oct 20 2015 / Read More » /
As Palestinians are once more rebelling against the Israeli occupation, we ought to also confront past misconceptions.

Recasting the Rules over Palestine: An Intellectual Intifada in the Offing

By Ramzy Baroud My first stop, after living for 22 years in a refugee camp in Gaza, was the city of Seattle, a pleasant, green…

Oct 20 2015 / Read More » /
No amount of bogus claims made in the foreign media will give Israel the legitimacy and sovereignty over Jerusalem that it craves.

Israeli Lies Will Not Deceive the British Public

By Daud Abdullah Israel’s Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan, scored a spectacular own goal with his recent article in the Guardian. In doing so,…

Oct 19 2015 / Read More » /
The Israeli government will not provide hope, and the Palestinian Authority cannot provide it.

Palestinians Need Hope, Not Calm

By John V. Whitbeck Since the current upsurge of violence in Israel and occupied Palestine began, numerous foreign leaders, as well as the UN Security…

Oct 18 2015 / Read More » /
A civil defense team member carry the body of 3-year-old Rahan Hassan among the rubble of buildings after Israeli forces carried out an airstrike on a house in Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. (Anadolu via Agencies)

Zionism’s ‘Double Ghettoisation’

By Jeremy Salt In the late medieval period ‘pale’ was the word used by the English to describe their colony in Ireland. They lived within…

Oct 17 2015 / Read More » /
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Do You Want to Be on the Front Lines? Resist with Us in the Battle for Truth

Palestine Chronicle Readers and Supporters, Mainstream media is at it again: they are not telling the truth as to what is really happening in Palestine…

Oct 15 2015 / Read More » /
Abbas prevented the Palestinians from protesting when Israel was carrying out massacres in Gaza. (Via MEMO)

The Palestinian Youth Had to Challenge the Occupation

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Four years after the advent of the “Arab Spring” and the failure to replace the ousted regimes with something better, the…

Oct 14 2015 / Read More » /
Precious young lives are not the only things being laid to rest.

Palestinians Must Not Fall into This Trap, again!

By Sam Bahour The lid on the powder keg of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip,…

Oct 14 2015 / Read More » /
Normalizing the abnormal. This in short is what Israel's Hasbara project is about. (ActiveStills.org,file)

Hasbara or Not: Apartheid in Israel is Doomed

By Iqbal Jassat As the noose of resistance begins to take a firm grip around the neck of Israel’s apartheid regime, Netanyahu’s bewilderment must not…

Oct 13 2015 / Read More » /
A Jewish group called 'Temple Mount and Land of Israel faithful movement' walks through Jerusalem (Anne Paq/Activestills.org,file)

Times Bows to Jewish Critics by Distorting Its Own Editor’s Article

By Ira Glunts New York Times foreign editor, Rick Gladstone, stirred the bee’s nest which is the pro-Israel Jewish media with his recent article, “Historical…

Oct 13 2015 / Read More » /
This is a Palestinian Intifada, even if it ends today. (Quds Press)

Of course, It is an Intifada: This is What You Must Know

By Ramzy Baroud When my book ‘Searching Jenin’ was published soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed…

Oct 12 2015 / Read More » /
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  • October 22, 2015

    Israeli Torture of Palestinian Children 'Increasing'

    A lawyer from the Prisoners’ Commission has eyewitness accounts of Palestinian children being beaten and tortured by Israeli security forces while in detention, Pls48.net has reported. Hiba Masalha provided the media with a number of examples of such incidents on Wednesday. They are on the increase, she pointed out. - Giving a personal account of his treatment at the hands of the Israelis, Amir Arrar, 17, from... More →
  • October 22, 2015

    Group: Israeli Forces Detain 876 Palestinians in October

    Israeli forces have detained at least 876 Palestinians during the month of October, prisoner rights group Addameer told Ma'an on Thursday. - Addameer said the 876 new detainees has brought the total number of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel to around 6,200 people. - Over 500 Palestinians were detained in the occupied West bank, 213 in East Jerusalem, and 152 in Israel. Over 130 of the detainees were children,... More →
  • October 22, 2015

    Number of Israelis Visiting Mental Health Clinics Goes up by 100%

    The number of Israelis visiting mental health clinics has increased by 100 per cent in recent days, Maariv newspaper reported on Wednesday. - The reason for this increase, it is said, is theongoing tension and clashes between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli army. The Palestinians are responding to the Israeli occupation, killings and violations of their rights,a response which includes random stabbings of... More →
  • October 22, 2015

    A Palestinian Killed, Another Injured after Alleged Attack in Beit Shemesh

    One Palestinian was killed and one critically injured by Israeli police in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, on Thursday after an alleged stabbing attack, Israeli media and police said. - The Palestinian who was shot and killed has been identified as Mahmoud Khalid Ghneimat, from Surief near Hebron, while the Palestinian who was critically injured has been identified as Miqdad al-Heeh, the Palestinians Prisoners'... More →
  • October 22, 2015

    Palestinians Started Third intifada, Says Arab League

    The assistant secretary general of the Arab League said on Wednesday that the Palestinians have started the third intifada. This, claimed Abdul Latif Obaid, is proof that they are persisting in their efforts to obtain their rights. - Speaking to Quds Press, Obaid said that the international community is again paying attention to the Palestinian issue and has “recognised that this must be dealt with.” He noted that... More →
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