Freedom Flotilla Trawler to Arrive in Galicia, Spain
A ship taking part in Freedom Flotilla III is set to dock in Bueu, Galicia, Spain Saturday in one of several stops before making a final voyage to the besieged Gaza Strip. Marianne will join […]
Month: May 2015
PFLP Slams Decision to Drop Bid to Suspend Israel from FIFA
Dropping the bid to suspend Israel from FIFA was an “outrageous deviation from our values, principles and efforts to expose the Israeli occupation’s crimes and to oust Israel from international organizations,” the Popular Front for […]
StandWithUs Invests Nearly Half a Million Dollars in Ongoing Anti-BDS Lawsuit against Olympia Food Co-Op
On May 28, 2015, the Washington State Supreme Court struck down the state’s anti-SLAPP law, following an appeal filed by five individuals who are suing the Olympia Food Co-op for boycotting Israeli products. The Israeli […]
Rivlin: Academic Boycotts against Israel Are First-rate Strategic Threat
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin described academic boycotts against Israel as a “strategic threat of the first order.” During a discussion of the issue at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, the chairman of the Council of […]
The Untold Story of Israeli Military Exports to South Sudan
We now know that Israel sold weapons to Rwanda in the 1990s as genocide was being committed throughout the country. The details of these dealings are still being kept secret and an appeal (Hebrew) to […]
Why is the Media Ignoring Israel’s Alliance with al-Qaeda?
Since January, I have been ploughing a lonely furrow in this column by covering what is certainly one of the most under-reported stories in the world right now: Israeli involvement in the war in Syria. […]
Protesters Interrupt FIFA Congress, Demand ‘Israel out’
Protesters briefly interrupted the FIFA congress on Friday as the world football’s governing body prepares to vote later on whether to suspend Israel from the organization. The two female protesters halted president Sepp Blatter’s opening […]
US Rebukes Israel while Showering It with Arms and Favors
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Only a few weeks into Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government, the intense strain of trying to square its members’ zealotry with Israel’s need to improve its international standing is already starkly […]
Turkey and Syria: The War of Two Men against One
By Jeremy Salt The next time Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to the media perhaps he should be asked precisely where the Turkish national interest lies in the destruction of Syria. In the name of bringing […]
Beyond the Middle East: The Rohingya Genocide
By Ramzy Baroud “Nope, nope, nope,” was Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s answer to the question whether his country will take in any of the nearly 8,000 Rohingya refugees stranded at sea. Abbott’s logic is […]
Israel Cries Foul over FIFA Suspension Talk
FIFA President Sepp Blatter is trying to broker a deal between the Palestinian and Israel football associations ahead of this week’s FIFA World Congress at which the Palestinians have called for a vote to suspend […]
Sirens Sound, Rocket Fired into Southern Israel
Rocket sirens sounded in southern Israel Tuesday night after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip, Israeli police said. The Israeli military identified at least one rocket fired from Gaza as well as a […]
After Capturing Haifa, Ben-Gurion Gave Order to Stop Fleeing Arabs from Returning
David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, gave an instruction aimed at preventing Haifa’s Arab residents who have fled the city during the 1948 War of Independence from returning to their homes as long as the […]
The End of Hasbara? ‘NYT’ Readers Question US Support for Apartheid
The New York Times published a remarkable discussion yesterday. Alongside an article about Israel canceling a plan to segregate buses going to the West Bank so as to keep Palestinians off settlers’ buses, it published […]
Wrongfully Treating Academic Debate as Anti-Semitism
According to the State Department definition, a Palestinian student claiming the right to return to her homeland could be considered to be “denying Israel’s right to exist,” given the demographic implications of the Palestinian right […]
Video: Israeli Soldiers Threaten Palestinian Child with False Arrest
Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian city of Hebron threatened to arrest a 14-year-old Palestinian boy simply for being in the vicinity of people throwing stones last month. In a video released by Israeli human rights […]
Israel will Imprison Soldier, 19, for Publicly Criticizing the Occupation
The Israeli government is imprisoning Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Shachar Berrin for criticizing its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. In the Q&A session during the public filming of a television program on May […]
Israel Revokes Jerusalem Residency Status of Prisoner’s Wife
Israeli authorities have revoked the residency status of a Palestinian woman from East Jerusalem after having lived in the city for 23 years, less than two weeks after her husband was sentenced to nine months […]
Oslo Sowed the Seeds of an Intra-Palestinian Schism
By Ghada Ageel On 23 April 2014 Palestinian factions led by Hamas and Fatah met at the home of then-Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and concluded the al-Shati agreement. Despite differences in ideology and political programmes […]
Which Countries Are Failing to Deliver Gaza Aid?
By Annie Slemrod Gulf Arab states and Turkey have spectacularly failed to fulfill their pledges to Gaza, contributing to a two-thirds shortfall in promised assistance to the beleaguered enclave, a new report reveals. Qatar has […]
Did the Metropolitan Police Send Staff to Israel During Last Year’s Gaza Assault?
Last November, a post appeared on the blogging platform Medium which claimed that between March 1, 2014 and August 31, 2014 – a period of six months – some 80 employees of London’s Metropolitan Police […]
Report: Majority of Refugees have Left Yarmouk Camp
Thousands of Palestinian refugees have fled the Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus fearing “oppression” practiced by militant groups Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, says Secretary-General of the coalition of Palestinian factions in the camp, […]
Introduction to Middle East Sectarian Wars
By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The actual religious requirements of Islam are quite simple, but no religion can lead society down a common path to worldly happiness or to the here-after heavens when the religious are […]
Netanyahu Halts Ban on Palestinians Using Settler Buses
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West Bank. The announcement came […]
Dimona: Israel’s ‘Little Hiroshima’
By Richard Silverstein In the early 1950s, after Israel had fought a desperate war of independence in which thousands of Israelis died to ensure the founding of the state, David Ben Gurion, its first prime […]
Nakba and the Question of ‘Palestinian Strategy’
By Ramzy Baroud “What is the Palestinian strategy?” is a question that I have been asked all too often, including on 15 May, the day that millions of Palestinians around the world commemorated the 67th […]
Israeli Settlers Destroy 250 Olive Trees in Northern Hebron
Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Bat Ayin north of Hebron set fire to an estimated 25 dunams of Palestinian land on Monday destroying up to 250 olive trees, a local committee reported. A […]
Israeli Government to Pay African Refugees $3,500 to Leave
The Israeli government will pay $3,500 grants to African refugees to encourage them to leave the country, it has said. The country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was designed to “protect the Jewish […]
Breaking the Silence ‘Confessions’ Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
By Ghada Ageel and Rela Mazali The Israeli veterans’ group “Breaking the Silence” on 4 May uploaded a collection of testimonies describing Israel’s assault on Gaza last summer. These accounts, the group said, were given […]
Pope Creates First Palestinian Saints at Vatican Mass
Two 19th-century nuns on Sunday became the first Palestinians to gain sainthood during an open-air mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square attended by President Mahmoud Abbas. The pontiff urged the faithful to […]
