Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi has appeared in an Israeli court, where his lawyers attempted to get him released on bail, as hundreds protest across the West Bank. Gaunt and wheelchair-bound, Issawi appeared on Tuesday […]
Tzipi Livni, Israel’s former foreign minister, has been named as justice minister after joining an emerging coalition headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of the ruling Likud Party. Livni, who heads the centrist HaTnuah Party, […]
By David Langstaff “I was like other men, I fed on bread, and on dreams, and on despair. I too loved, I cried, I hated, I suffered… But when you dry this bouquet of nettles, […]
Protesters rallied in Bethlehem, Hebron and Ramallah on Monday in support of hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails, as the PA minister of prisoner affairs warned of a popular uprising in the West Bank. In […]
A suspected agent of the Israeli spy agency Mossad known as “Prisoner X” was arrested by his own spymasters after leaking information about his work to Australian intelligence services, an Australian broadcaster reported. Ben Zygier, […]
Israel’s former foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud and breach of trust at the start of a trial that has put the ultranationalist’s political career in doubt. The charges, […]
By Uri Avnery The sole contribution of Ya’ir Lapid to Israeli folklore so far is his saying that he would not join a move to block Binyamin Netanyahu, since this would mean joining forces with […]
By William James Martin The efforts of Israel and its US supporters and the Obama administration to institute crippling sanctions on Iran may have less to do with a potential nuclear capability than with the […]
By Tamar Fleishman Two back-to-back procedures at the same time and at the same place. It was cold. The air was polluted. But the harmful and cruel regulations were more polluted. The victims: two babies. […]
By Susan Abulhawa I finally watched The Great Book Robbery at the University of Pennsylvania this weekend with some friends. It’s a film documenting Israel’s systematic looting of over 70,000 books from Palestinian public and […]
Israeli soldiers have clashed with Palestinian protesters at a rally in support of a prisoner observing an hunger strike to protest his incarceration. The Israeli military said about 200 Palestinians threw rocks at soldiers who […]
Palestinian Hamas politicians ordered to leave the country after being branded “a serious threat to national security”. Bulgaria has ordered three visiting Palestinian politicians from Hamas to leave the country, saying they posed a security […]
Residents of the Gaza Strip repeatedly fall prey of fake banknotes both in Israeli shekels and in US dollars, smuggled from Egypt through tunnels or printed locally. “Counterfeit NIS are easy to distinguish, but with […]
By Manash Bhattacharjee I learnt from your poems how To wait upon death And how waiting is a game as Treacherous as death. I learnt from you how the root Of waiting is grasped in […]
By Mats Svensson We used to meet at Borderline Restaurant, myself and three young, well-educated men (always men) from “The Bank.” We were discussing the recent World Bank meeting in Al Ram. President Arafat had […]
Medical officials said Thursday that a young boy died two days after an explosion in the al-Sheikh Radwan area in the northern Gaza Strip. Imad Abu Qadrous, 5, died of severe head wounds and three […]
Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has expressed concern about the well-being of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, particularly Samer Issawi who has been on hunger strike for more than 200 days […]
By IRIN Ahmed Dweik’s family knows a thing or two about the refugee experience. Theirs started in 1948, when his father fled his Palestinian home town as Israeli forces captured the village of West Batani […]
By Jamal Kanj Western media is obsessed with presenting a positive spin on everything related to Israel, while trivializing good and accentuating negative news on Palestine. It’s admirably free in many aspects, but when it […]
By Joshua Brollier On February 11, 2013, the New York Times reported about the funeral of retired Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle, portraying him as a “warrior and family man.” The highly politicized and massive […]
By Zachary Fillingham Opposition troops in Syria have largely come to be referred to as the Free Syria Army (FSA), but this title belies the fact that the anti-Assad side of the civil war equation […]
By Ramzy Baroud – with Rafiq Kathwari He sipped then walked slowly head held high greeting the hangman with a gentle nod eyes sunk to heart beard grew defiant remembering the judge asking to repeat […]
Omar Barghouti of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign on why he thinks this type of pressure is needed to make Israel respect international law.
Israel has confirmed it had imprisoned a mystery foreigner in solitary confinement on security grounds who had committed suicide, without revealing his identity or the charges against him. “The Israel Prisons Service (IPS) held a […]
Fatah leader President Mahmoud Abbas says elections will be the basis to end the division, but that Hamas opposes a vote “at this stage.” “An agreement has been reached with Hamas that we form a […]
Israel has given final approval for 90 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, driving another wedge into a rift with Washington ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. The homes will […]
The detention of Hamas supporters in the West Bank lays more obstacles before the intended general elections, a party official said Tuesday after Israel launched an arrest sweep. Mousa Abu Marzouq, deputy chief of the […]
By Ramzy Baroud Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. […]
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Since 1967 Israeli-Arab war, the Palestinians in the occupied lands have to contend in their daily lives with Jewish-only settlements, settler-only highways, check points and roadblocks, earth mounds and trenches, land […]
By Neve Gordon – Israel Former anchorman and middle-class darling Yair Lapid stunned the Israeli political scene in the recent elections. His party, Yesh Atid (There is a Future) won 19 seats, second in size […]
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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