By John Pilger Its celebrity time again. The Golden Globes have been, and the Oscars are coming. This is a “vintage year”, say Hollywood’s hagiographers on cue. It isn’t. Most movies are made to a […]
By Uri Avnery Peter Seeger touched my life only once. But what a touch. It was a few days before the 1967 Six-Day War. After almost three weeks of mounting tension, the war fever was […]
Review by Ludwig Watzal (Michael Quilligan, Understanding Shadows. The Corrupt Use of Intelligence, Clarity Press, Atlanta 2013, pp 366.) Edward Snowden’s revelations have given the public insights into a world that leads a shadowy existence. […]
US actress Scarlett Johansson has quit as global ambassador for Oxfam after the aid group deemed the role “incompatible” with her promotion of an Israeli firm that has a factory in the occupied West Bank. […]
Palestinians on Wednesday gathered for the funeral of Muhammad Mubarak, a 22-year-old man who was shot dead by Israeli forces earlier in the day. A Ma’an reporter said a funeral procession brought Mubarak’s body from […]
“Checkpoint” is based on the oppression and discrimination Jasiri X witnessed firsthand during his recent trip to Palestine and Israel. “Checkpoint” is produced by Agent of Change, and directed by Haute Muslim.
By Athithan Jayapalan State oppression and counter-insurgency do not exist in isolation; they are situated in a global nexus of inter-state relations and links. Thereby the experience of a state in repressing resistance and people […]
By Vacy Vlazna At the black heart of Israel’s 65 year rape of Palestine, is the Jewish National Fund ( JNF) which once went by the more germane, Jewish COLONIAL Trust; an opportunistic real-estate jackal […]
By Ahmad Barqawi Another day, another American atrocity in Iraq revealed. By now, it’s become a very familiar (albeit unfortunate) tale; gory pictures of American marines’ criminal shenanigans in third-world countries surface, with little to […]
Israeli forces launched multiple raids across the West Bank early Tuesday morning, detaining at least 22 young Palestinian men. Spokesman for the youth movement in East Jerusalem Hani Halabiyya told Ma’an that Israeli troops stormed […]
A court in Jerusalem has sentenced an Israeli man to four-and-a-half years in prison for offering to spy for Iran, according to court documents. Tuesday’s court ruling said 46-year-old Yitzhak Bergel admitted to charges of […]
By Ramzy Baroud In a recent radio interview with a National Public Radio affiliate in Juneau, Alaska, I was asked if I had advice for a 16-year-old Palestinian student, Haitham. He had just arrived in […]
Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Monday that 120 Fatah members would be allowed to return to Gaza in order to push reconciliation forward. Haniyeh told the al-Kitab satellite channel that the reconciliation file will […]
By Vacy Vlazna “Imperialism after all is an act of geographical violence” Edward Said Is it just me, or do you also see a thread of colonial superiority and racism binding US, Australia, Canada to […]
Review by Edward S. Herman (Maximilian Forte – Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and AfricaBaraka. Books: Montreal CA 2012, 341 pp.) Maximilian Forte’s book on the Libyan war, Slouching Towards Sirte, is another […]
By Tamar Fleishman We usually prefer to exit Palestine using Hizme checkpoint, where unlike other exit checkpoints, there are no long lines of cars, we aren’t detained and there is no need for identification or […]
By Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon On January 22, protests in solidarity with African asylum seekers were held in front of several Israeli embassies all over the world. By this time most media outlets both […]
A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 63 people, including women and children, in the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus because of food and medical shortages. Yarmouk in […]
By Iqbal Jassat, Johannesburg – South Africa Much has been written and talked about Ariel Sharon since his death following an eight year long coma. Not surprisingly, Israeli leaders have been rather subdued in their […]
Israeli forces shot dead one Palestinian and injured another on Friday during a protest east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra, said that 20-year-old Bilal […]
By Susannah Tarbush Israel’s massive 23-day Operation Cast Lead offensive on Gaza, which began on 27 December 2008, caused massive destruction and killed more than 1,400 people. Another 5,000 were injured. Just World Books of […]
Israel on Wednesday moved forward with plans for 261 new homes in two settlements located deep in the occupied West Bank, a watchdog said, drawing strong European condemnation. It was the fifth such move in […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Things have come to a strange state of affairs when Washington regards Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s far-right foreign minister, as the voice of moderation in the Israeli cabinet. While Lieberman has […]
By Ramzy Baroud Israel is often viewed by Washington politicians as the most ‘stable’ ally in the Middle East. But stability from the American perspective can mean many things. Lead amongst them is that the […]
An Israeli airstrike on Wednesday killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip including one accused by Israel of ordering rocket attacks, officials said. Eyewitnesses said Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a car in […]
By Rana Abdulla Of all the privations in the modern world, some of which can be overcome, admittedly with difficulty, such things as the lack of electricity and gas for heating or cooking although we […]
By Jim Miles Canada’s Conservative leader, Stephen Harper, spoke today in front of the Israeli Knesset. It was a short speech, beginning with homilies, platitudes, and economic references and then turned towards the righteous values […]
By William James Martin To: President Wallace Loh Office of the President University of Maryland College Park, Md 20742 Dear President Loh; I have read your response to the ASA boycott of Israeli academic institutions. […]
By Jamal Kanj Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but “leave us alone.” He called the US peace efforts […]
By Kathy Kelly “Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism. … A genuine […]
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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