By Stuart Reigeluth With international attention focusing on the Palestinian UN bid, the prisoner swap and the absurd US response to UNESCO accepting Palestine, a much smaller event but no less revealing has been largely […]
By Ramzy Baroud Syrians continue to be victimized, not only in violent clashes with the Syrian military, but also by regional and international players with various agendas. Protests in Syria began on January 26, and […]
Israeli forces overnight Sunday raided the homes of seven prisoners freed as part of the Oct. 18 prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel, a Ma’an correspondent reported. Military vehicles entered the northern West Bank […]
An Israeli airstrike on a Hamas naval base in the northern Gaza Strip has killed one Palestinian and injured four people. A fifth Palestinian is still missing, Reuters reported. The missing person was a member […]
Israel has said it will hold on the transfer of Palestinian tax collections as punishment for the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s successful membership admission to UNESCO. On Monday, Israeli Cabinet ministers decided not to release about […]
By Stuart Littlewood – UK Last Friday I had a 2-hour meeting with my MP Henry Bellingham, who is a minister in the Foreign Office. We spent much of the time discussing the Palestinian statehood […]
By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Over three weeks have elapsed since the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously passed resolution 2014. Addressing Yemen’s 10-month revolution, the resolution calls for Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign […]
By Ludwig Watzal (Ilan Pappé/Jamil Hilal eds., Across The Wall. Narratives of Israeli-Palestinian History, I. B. Tauris, London-New York 2010, 462 pp.) ‘Across the Wall’ arose from collaboration between scholars from Israel and Palestine, seeking […]
By Ismail Salami Following the recent IAEA report released on Iran’s nuclear program which many observers found professionally faulty, Washington once again ratcheted up the ‘bomb, bomb Iran’ rhetoric. The rhetoric escalated even more in […]
By Richard Lightbown Uri Avnery in a considered assessment of the chances of an Israeli attack on Iran (Palestine Chronicle, November 03) stated categorically that it will not happen. I hope he is right, but I […]
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Jaba checkpoint is a great example of the deep connection between the infliction of the checkpoint regime in the West Bank on the Palestinian population, and the effort […]
By Clive Hambidge The UN Cultural organisation (UNESCO) voted strongly in favour of membership for the Palestinians. A vote opposed by Israel. There were 173 countries that voted, 107 in favour, 14 opposing and 52 […]
The Palestinian leadership remains "determined" to pursue UN membership even though its bid has hit deadlock at the UN Security Council, its UN envoy has said. Riyad Mansour said the Palestinian leadership would "quickly" decide […]
By Ben Lorber – ISM, West Bank The upcoming Freedom Rides has tethered itself very tenuously to an event in the past, and has thereby taken a stand in a historical legacy that leaves itself […]
Palestinian activists will attempt to board Israeli buses in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday in an action inspired by the American civil rights movement. "Palestinian activists will reenact the US Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom […]
By Ludwig Watzal (Francis A. Boyle, The Palestinian Right of Return under International Law, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA, 2011, 134 pp.) According to U. N. General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) of December 11, 1948, the […]
(The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Cape Town Session. Summary of Findings, November 07, 2011) The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) is an international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience created in response to the demands of civil […]
By Uri Avnery ‘You can lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all […]
A nephew of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says the family will soon release a French medical report revealing Arafat’s cause of death. Naser al-Qudwa says the document is being translated from French before […]
Britain has said that it will abstain from voting if Palestine’s application for full-membership at the UN was taken up in the UN Security Council. William Hague, the British foreign secretary, said on Wednesday that […]
An Israeli court has upheld the seven-year prison sentence for former President Moshe Katsav who has been convicted of rape and sexual harassment charges. On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the Israeli regime rejected Katsav’s […]
By Stuart Littlewood Media reports suggest that Britain will again betray the Palestinian people in the UN vote tomorrow on whether to recognise the Palestinian territories as an independent state. The Guardian, for example, says […]
Interview by Jonathan Reynolds Q: For a work of geopolitical history, I found the book a real ‘page-turner’. A: Thanks. It’s gratifying that this came across. So much of the critique of imperialism is depressing […]
A Hamas leader said Wednesday that more female detainees in Israeli prisons would be released as part of an exchange deal initiated last month. Saleh Arouri told the Hamas-affiliated Risala newspaper in Gaza that the […]
Jewish settlers have set ablaze three Palestinian cars overnight in the West Bank village of Beit Omar near al-Khalil (Hebron). Vandals also sprayed Hebrew graffiti on a house which reads "price tag" and "greetings from […]
By James Petras After nearly 3 years in deep pursuit of the colonial wars initiated by ex-President Bush, the Obama regime has finally recognized the catastrophic domestic and foreign consequences. As a result the “reality […]
By Mohannad El-Khairy Achieving much needed international recognition of Palestine’s right to exist on one hand, and potentially sealing the disenfranchisement of Palestinian rights, particularly those of state-less refugees, on the other. It’s like being […]
By Tariq Shadid The past years have seen a rise in non-violent activism against the Israeli occupation and against the blockade of Gaza. It is quite important to realize that the success or failure of […]
A leaked conversation between US President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy suggests both are tired of dealing with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A number of journalists overheard the private chat […]
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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