Israeli navy troops seized on Tuesday, June 30, a Gaza blockade-defying boat loaded with humanitarian aid and detained 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. […]
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman issued a tough rebuke following remarks in which France’s president urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to get rid of" the ultranationalist Israeli official, Israeli media reports said on Tuesday. […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Israeli operators failed to verify targets of drone aircraft at least six times during the Gaza war, firing missiles that killed at least 29 Palestinians. In a 39-page […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture, according to Israeli human rights […]
By Franklin Lamb – Dahiyeh, Lebanon While on the surface the pro-US team here did preserve its ‘majority’, the Hezbollah led opposition actually won the election by nearly ten percent of the popular vote. Of […]
By Dr. Elias Akleh For the last three weeks the Western media had bombarded us with what they called the Iranian stolen election. They allege that the election was fraudulent and that the masses went […]
Six months after a deadly Israeli offensive and two years of a stifling blockade, Palestinians in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip are “trapped in despair” as they struggle to survive, the International Committee of the Red […]
A UN human rights mission on the Gaza conflict is hearing from a range of experts on the social and the psychological effect of Israel’s 22-day war on Gaza. On the second of the two-day […]
The Israeli government approved on Monday, June 29, the expansion of a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, despite repeated American and international calls for a total freeze of settlement building. "The Defense Ministry […]
By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Israeli political tactics are based on a fundamental premise. Disregard the core and delve into the minutest of details. This way, the basis of any given argument is easily lost […]
By Uri Avnery Hundreds of thousands of Iranian citizens pour into the streets in order to protest against their government! What a wonderful sight! Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz that he envies the Iranians. And […]
By Belen Fernandez A June 25 editorial in the Jerusalem Post online entitled ‘Arab hearts and minds’ begins: ‘Another day, another massacre in Iraq.’ The remainder of the first paragraph covers the details of the […]
By Free Gaza Team – Larnaca The Free Gaza boat the ‘Spirit of Humanity’ departed Cyprus at 7:30am on Monday, 29 July. Twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers representing eleven different countries were aboard. The […]
A UN Fact-finding Committee has arrived in the Gaza strip to investigate violations committed during Israel’s offensive on the territory earlier this year. The United Nations committee arrived in the Gaza Strip on Friday evening […]
The international Quartet on Middle East peace has called on Israel to halt Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories and open border crossings as a first step to advance peace. The Quartet, comprised of the […]
By Anna Brown On February 4th, 1968, just about a month before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “Drum Major Instinct” sermon from the pulpit of Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, […]
By John Chuckman A recent article called "Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It" by Flynt and Hillary Leverett is not the only source with serious credentials offering reasonable, non-sensational explanations for events around Iran’s presidential election. […]
By Stuart Littlewood – London Reports of prisoner abuse at the US prison at Bagram air force base in Afghanistan come as no surprise. They are just the latest example of the world’s biggest bully […]
By Franklin Lamb – Dahiyeh, Lebanon Some Legmen for the US Israeli lobby, and even some here in Lebanon appear barely able to contain themselves, such is their felt glee over the Lebanese and Iranian […]
The leader of the Palestinian group Hamas’s political bureau has refused to recognize Israel as Jewish state. At the same time, Khaled Meshaal has endorsed the idea of a two-state solution, accepting the creation of […]
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has rejected a call by the French president to halt settlement activity in the occupied West Bank. Nicolas Sarkozy had on Wednesday made the plea to impose a "total […]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez believes that the United States and European countries have a hand in anti-government protests rocking Iran over the country’s presidential elections. "People are in the streets, some are dead, they have […]
The number of Israeli tourists visiting Turkey has plunged by a record 60.5 percent in the first five months of the year, following Ankara’s fierce criticism of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, official data […]
American Jewish actor Jason Alexander, from the hugely successful television comedy series Seinfeld, was in Jerusalem on Wednesday to attend a OneVoice meeting where he spoke about a project in which Palestinian and Israeli youth […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in ‘lost’ accounts belonging to […]
By Ramzy Baroud One might be tempted to dismiss the recent findings of the US State Department on human trafficking as largely political. But do not be too hasty. Criticism of the State Department’s report […]
By George S. Hishmeh A few months after arriving in the US in 1968 and joining the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times, I was invited to speak at an Arab-American community gala dinner. My punchline […]
By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America’s imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases – for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn’t had an enemy […]
By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai They say in Urdu that the first victims of a revolution are always its own people. Watching the apocalyptic events unfold in Iran over the past couple of weeks, […]
The Obama administration scrapped a scheduled meeting between its Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell and hawkish Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu over his right-wing government’s refusal to heed American calls for a settlement freeze. "Once you’ve […]
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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