By Omar Barghouti The Arab democratic spring, striving to end authoritarian rule and establish freedoms and social justice, has not been welcome by all. Israel and its main lobby in the U.S., the American Israel […]

By Jane Hirschmann Gaza is crumbling under the weight of an Israeli siege backed by the Obama administration. Roughly 80 percent of Palestinians in Gaza now depend on aid. Vast amounts of infrastructure destroyed in […]

By Jeremy Salt – Ankara The man was not executed. Executions follow due legal process, and here the only process was heavily armed men running upstairs until they found their man and killed him. Unarmed, […]

By William A. Cook What silent communion this scene holds,Of a life lived and one yet to unfold;What forlorn love those encircling arms portend,That would protect against the evils that descendFrom unseen missiles yet to […]

We have triumphed over the plan to expel us from history. —Mahmoud Darwish By Roger Sheety You will not findWhat you’re searching for,She said. Life is in the searchingNot in the finding,I said. I will […]

By Stephanie Westbrook Italian construction firm Pizzarotti is stupefied, bewildered, stunned. In an article on today’s Corriere della Sera, Italy’s top newspaper, covering Deutsche Bahn’s withdrawal from the Israeli project for a high-speed train line […]

By Uri Avnery I could not restrain myself. Though I was alone in the room, I burst out laughing. I was reading a newspaper report about the latest poll. People were asked to evaluate the […]

By Tamar Fleishman It is difficult to write of the death of a young man whose name we don’t know. Not once did his father or uncle mention it – "Ibni" mumbled the father.  It […]

By Mikail Jubran A concerted united front of mainstream American pro-Zionist, Jewish and pro-Israeli organizations has begun to assert itself in an all-out campaign to “sabotage” any and all Palestinian efforts to declare a state […]

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By Neve Gordon ‘Bad laws,’ Edmund Burke once said, ‘are the worst sort of tyranny.’ The millions of people who have been protesting – from Tunis, Egypt and Libya, to Bahrain, Yemen and Syria – […]

By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced last Monday that Palestinian civil servants, numbering about 150,000, were not paid their salaries "on time." The reason: Israel has failed to […]

By Peter Lavelle Democratic change is spreading throughout the Middle East: Syria continues to reel from large and sustained protests; Egypt has announced that it will open a key border crossing with the Gaza Strip […]

By Jeff Gates Conspiracy theorists assure us that Osama bin Laden was killed in December 2001 and his body put on ice in – of course – an undisclosed location. If the recent killing of […]

By Ramzy Baroud Nader al-Masri is an inspiration. The 31-year-old Gaza athlete seems completely oblivious to challenges that would seem insurmountable to most. On May 5th, he led a small pack of nine runners into […]

By Dr. Ahmed Yousef Speaking 150 years ago about political judgments, [Otto von] Bismarck said if we listen carefully, we can hear the sound of hoof-beats in the distance and plan accordingly. The hoof-beats are […]

By Daniela Loffreda Over ten thousand people joined together on Easter Sunday April 25, 2011 to pay homage to Vittorio Arrigoni in his home town of Buciago, Italy. The bittersweet moments were celebrated first in […]

(Interview with Prof. Neve Gordon) By Dahlia Scheindlin It has been a troubled year for Israeli academia. The rising nationalist sentiment in the government, legislature and civil society has spilled over into bitter struggles on […]

By Stuart Littlewood No fewer than 29 members of the Samouni family, including many of the women and children, were callously slaughtered by Israeli troops during their assault on the Gaza Strip, known as Operation […]