By Stuart Littlewood Can’t say I’m crazy about the German Nobel laureate’s poetry. Much is lost in translation, of course. But the sentiment expressed in ‘What Must Be Said’ is spot-on. And now that the […]
By Uri Avnery Stop me if I have told you this joke before: Somewhere in the US, a demonstration takes place. The police arrive and beat the protesters mercilessly. “Don’t hit me,” someone shouts, “I […]
By Robert Fantina With the ever-present backing of the hypocritical United States, Israel has once more thrown a temper tantrum on the world stage. The latest move by the United Nations that has outraged apartheid […]
Three people were injured by settlers on Thursday in the northern West Bank village of Yanun, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, […]
More than 1,200 pro-Palestine activists have organized trips to the occupied West Bank to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Organizers of the “flytilla” to Palestine have scheduled a gathering at Ben Gurion Airport in […]
A Palestinian prisoner on the 42nd day of a hunger strike is in critical condition after beginning to refuse liquids. Physicians for Human Rights-Israel demanded on Tuesday that Bilal Nabil Diab be transferred to a […]
The mayor of Bethlehem on Tuesday urged Israel not to humiliate hundreds of tourists invited to a week-long tour of Palestine. Some 25 Palestinian organizations have invited internationals to visit Palestine from April 15 – […]
By Jean Shaoul Recently released documents show that Israel’s Civil Administration, part of the Defence Ministry, has long earmarked up to 10 percent of the West Bank for new settlements or the expansion of existing […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘How can you make a war on terror when you are actually the terrorist?’ — (Unknown.) America’s 2003 assault on Iraq, already devastated by thirteen years of sanctions, infrastructure destruction consequently unrepaired from […]
By Ralph Nader March Madness comes once a year. Media Madness is year-round. What the mass media choose to cover and feature try to turn the priorities of any sane society upside down. People of […]
By Ramzy Baroud The intentional misreading of UN security council resolution 1973 resulted in Nato’s predictably violent Operation Odyssey in Libya last year. Not only did the action cost many thousands of lives and untold […]
Palestine can still pursue an investigation into possible Israeli war crimes during the last offensive on Gaza at the International Criminal Court, PLO observer to the UN Riyad Mansour said Monday. ICC chief prosecutor Luis […]
Israeli police forces are gearing up to confront the hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists heading to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport this weekend. “We have made arrangements and are prepared for this operation, which is expected […]
By Nasser Rego The fiftieth anniversary of the death of revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was commemorated this past December. In late February, the not-so-revolutionary judge Asher Grunis was elected President of the Israeli […]
By Stuart Reigeluth Preserving one’s patrimony is a way of maintaining one’s cultural heritage. For Palestinians, who have been occupied by Israel for decades, this is particularly important — restoring monuments and raising awareness about […]
By Lillian Rosengarten Silence in the face of apartheid is unbearable. We can no longer remain silent nor turn our backs and pretend ignorance to a gruesome occupation of stolen land where Palestinians once lived […]
Israel has declared Nobel Prize-winning German author Gunter Grass "persona non grata" over a poem that deeply criticises the Jewish state and suggests it is as much a danger as Iran. In a poem called […]
Consultations over an expected reshuffle in the Palestinian Authority are to be delayed until President Abbas finishes as international tour due to start Monday, a senior Fatah official said. Azzam al-Ahmad told Voice of Palestine […]
Palestinian activists have staged a sit-in outside the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip demanding the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Expressing solidarity with prisoners in […]
By Mamoon Alabbasi – London Politics and human rights have always been among the dominant themes in Sarah Gillespie’s albums ‘Stalking Juliet’ and ‘In the Current Climate’, but her latest release ‘The War on Trevor’ […]
By Dallas Darling Those attacking German novelist Gunter Grass, who wrote a poem criticizing Israel’s nuclear weapons program and arsenal, should recall what Pablo Picasso once said: “Art is not done to decorate apartments, it […]
Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, has won an appeal against his deportation from Britain, according to the group that invited him to the country. Mark Ockelton, the vice-president of the […]
Authorities in Gaza have executed three prisoners, including a Palestinian convicted of collaborating with Israel, an interior ministry statement has said. The ministry said on Saturday that the three men were hanged in a security centre […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot ‘How does blood flow from a ghost?’ — From ‘They Didn’t Ask: What’s After Death?’, Mahmoud Darwish, 1942-2008 “Nothing so terrible has happened to us since the Crusades.” — An Iraqi friend In November 2010, […]
Israeli forces suppressed a weekly protest in Kafr Qaddum on Friday, which was attended by several Palestinian Authority officials. Israeli forces fired tear gas, stun grenades and a liquid spray at protesters near Qalqiliya who […]
By Uri Avnery I am writing this on Friday night, the eve of Passover. At this moment, all over the world, millions of Jews are gathered around the family table, observing the Seder, reading aloud […]
Egyptian officials disputed on Thursday Israeli assessments showing that rockets which struck the city of Eilat were fired from Egypt’s Sinai desert. An Egyptian security official in the southern Sinai, speaking on condition of anonymity, […]
By Vacy Vlazna ‘It can never be business as usual. Israeli Universities are an intimate part of the Israeli regime, by active choice. While Palestinians are not able to access universities and schools, Israeli universities […]
By James Petras The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: (1) the recent military history of both countries in the region, (2) public pronouncements by US and […]
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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