“The Palestine Youth Orchestra was established by the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, aiming to bring together Palestinian musicians from all over the world into an ambitious collective effort, hoping to achieve the same […]
By Tariq Shadid Not everything in the Middle East, or more specifically in Palestine, is about politics. In this occupied nation, people are not only struggling for liberation and independence, but also to live a […]
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have hit southern Israel as US President Barack Obama was making his first official visit to the country in four years, police said. “One exploded in the backyard […]
By Jamal Kanj President Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East has coincided with the 10th anniversary of the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie. She was murdered by an American-made and financed Israeli […]
Israeli rights group B’Tselem on Wednesday said Israel’s mass arrest of children in Hebron was “unacceptable,” and released a video of the detentions. The video shows soldiers forcefully arresting schoolchildren, one of whom is dragged […]
Barack Obama has made his first visit to Israel as US president, saying the alliance between the two countries is ‘eternal’ amid Iranian nuclear threat. The long-awaited visit, the first foreign tour of Obama’s second […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Those who hoped that Barack Obama would be arriving in Israel to bang Israeli and Palestinian heads together, after four years of impasse in the peace process, will be sorely […]
By M. Shahid Alam In April 2012, Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT), a Zionist organization headed by Charles Jacobs, began a smear campaign against Muslim students, the staff of Spiritual Life Center, and some […]
By Ramzy Baroud ‘Hi Papa .. Don’t worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we are not being effective. I still don’t feel particularly at risk. Rafah has seemed calmer […]
Ayman Sharawna says his release to Gaza felt like a victory over Israel’s occupation, after an 8-month hunger strike in Israeli prison. “Being released this time felt different. It felt like a victory over the […]
By Lewis Turner Shlomo Sand shot to prominence and controversy with his 2008 book The Invention of the Jewish People. His follow-up, The Invention of the Land of Israel, examines a nationalist mythology of land […]
By Kathy Kelly Ten years ago, in March of 2003, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated “Shock and Awe” attacks that the U.S. was planning to launch against them. The media buildup for the attack […]
A freed Palestinian prisoner has been given a hero’s welcome in the Gaza Strip after ending his hunger strike in an Israeli jail and agreeing to a plea bargain that will confine him to the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s new governing coalition has taken office after a parliamentary vote with powerful roles reserved for supporters of settlers in occupied territory. While the new line-up, formally sworn in on Monday, […]
A Qatari committee announced Monday that a local construction company has been contracted to begin the first phase of reconstruction projects in the Gaza Strip. Head of the Qatari committee Muhammad al-Amadi said that the […]
By IRIN – Jerusalem Last month, an international fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council found that settlements constituted a violation of international human […]
(This letter to US President Barack Obama was read out in Arabic by Heba, a 12-year-old girl from the town of Rafah on March 16. An event was held in the southern Gaza Strip town […]
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘The Tony Blair Faith Foundation is … honouring International Women’s Day …’ — (Tony Blair Faith Foundation, 5th March 2013.) It was former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson who is […]
By William A. Cook It occurred to me as I was rereading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s unfinished novel, Dr. Grimshawe’s Secret, that the good Doctor’s grim reflection on the human condition, delivered to his adopted child, Ned, […]
By Eric Walberg The process of shaping post-revolutionary Egypt to conform to the postmodern imperial world is proceeding apace. Egypt’s long history of invasion and occupation by first France (under Napoleon) and then Britain, and […]
By Tom Wright and Therese Saliba ‘Parents can be awakened by their children.’ — Cindy Corrie, 2003 Commencement address Ten years have now passed since we received the terrible phone call telling us our young […]
By James Petras President Hugo Chavez was unique in multiple areas of political, social and economic life. He made significant contributions to the advancement of humanity. The depth, scope and popularity of his accomplishments mark […]
By Uri Avnery In the days following the recent Israeli elections, Ya’ir Lapid, the major winner, let it be known that he wanted to be the next Foreign Minister. No wonder. It’s the hell of […]
A Palestinian who had been in a coma since inhaling tear gas at a protest last month died in hospital in the West Bank city of Ramallah, a medical official says. Muayad Nazih Ghazawneh, 35, […]
Major political parties have signed coalition agreements with Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu, clearing the way for him to inform President Shimon Peres that a new government has been formed, according to a statement from […]
By IRIN – Jerusalem Palestine, now upgraded to a non-member observer state at the UN General Assembly, recently threatened to ask the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel if it moves forward with E-1 (Palestine […]
By Jamal Kanj Failing to agree on ways to reduce the deficit, the US president was forced earlier this month to enact the Budget Control Act (BCA) into law. The debt ceiling compromise was originally […]
Hamas’ military wing says it will sue the editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram Al-Arabi magazine over a report Thursday accusing Hamas leaders of killing Egyptian soldiers in the northern Sinai. “We will file legal proceedings against the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reached a deal for a governing coalition in which a new centrist party will serve as his main partner, a spokeswoman for his right-wing Likud party has said. “There […]
A short film by Birzeit University students – the right to education campaign.
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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