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Month: May 2015
Even in Gaza, You Can’t Have a Film Festival without a Red Carpet
While Israeli entertainment reporters have been busy covering the DocAviv documentary film festival in Tel Aviv in recent days, but nearby, another rather exceptional film festival came to a close Thursday evening in the Shujaiyeh […]
NYT Public Editor Faults Paper for Failing to Quote Jews who Support BDS
In recent days we have made a lot of the fact that the New York Times ran a front-page article equating the campus Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) against Israel with anti-Semitism. The piece […]
Siege on Gaza Prevents Children from Receiving Needed Medical Formula
On May 11, Dan Cohen reported on how the the Najjar family is one of many families in the Gaza village of Khuza’a are being forced to live in shipping containers because reconstruction has not yet […]
The House Belongs to Someone Else: The Lie Lives on!
By Mats Svensson She told me she longed to get away. Just for a few days. She had been invited to visit friends in Amman, only a few miles away. She only needed to drive […]
The Whole Truth about Israel in One Sentence
By Alan Hart It was written by Gideon Levy, the conscience of Israeli journalism, in an article for Ha’aretz, and here it is: “The two-state solution is dead (it was never born); the Palestinian state […]
At Promise and Hope: Promoting Resilience in Palestinian Schools
By Samah Jabr Ali, 8, suffers from allergies which cause a frequent nasal discharge. Running out of tissues during class, he asked his classmates for some but the teacher scolded him. “You always have a […]
3 Palestinians in Gaza Shot, Injured in Nakba Day Protest
Three Palestinians were injured by live fire during a Nakba Day demonstration in the Gaza Strip on Friday, witnesses said. Locals told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers opened fire on peaceful demonstrators east of Gaza City, […]
The Nakba 67 Years on: Holding on Tight to Our Long Postponed Dreams
By Ghada Ageel Sixty-seven years ago, Palestinians woke up to a tragedy that ravaged their hearts and distorted Palestinian life forever. Over 800,000 people, approximately half of the population of then-mandatory Palestine, were evicted from […]
Palestine Commemorates 67 years of Ongoing Nakba
By Dr. Mosheer Amer On 15 May every year, the Palestinian people all over the world commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, or “Catastrophe”. The Palestinians mourn and remember the massive expulsion and forcible displacement […]
The Nakba: A Crime Watched, Ignored and Remembered
By Ilan Pappe The 15th of May is usually a trigger for a journey back in time. And for an unfathomable reason each such journey conjures up a different aspect of the Nakba. This year, […]
Israel Seeks in Nepal to Whitewash Its Crimes in Gaza
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was quick to congratulate Israeli soldiers on their relief efforts in Nepal, where an earthquake late last month claimed many thousands of lives. “These are […]
The Arab Boat: It’s an Arab-Palestinian Nakba, and We Are All Refugees
By Ramzy Baroud In a western capital far away from Gaza and Cairo, I recently shared a pot of tea with an “Egyptian refugee”. The term is familiar to me, but never have I encountered […]
Susiya Residents Await Evacuation
A civil administration representative along with Israeli forces took photos and measurements of village structures in Khirbet Susiya earlier this week, residents fearing imminent demolition of their homes, rights organization says. Based on past experiences, […]
CrossTalk: Palestine Chronicle Editor on the Obama Doctrine
How should we describe the Obama administrations foreign policy idealistic, pragmatic, neither, or merely erratic? On the one hand, Obama is reaching out to Cuba and Burma, but on the other hes backing coups in […]
Israel Sentences Palestinian to 9 Months for Facebook Posts
The former secretary-general of Fatah in Jerusalem has been sentenced to nine months in an Israeli prison for activity on social media. The Israeli magistrate’s court in Jerusalem handed the sentence to Omar al-Shalabi after […]
NYT Claims BDS is Reason for ‘A Wedge between Jews and Minorities’ on Campus
Back in the 1890s, two newspapers, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal, were battling it out for the readership of New Yorkers and beyond. To garner more readers, they […]
Netherlands to Issue New Policy Directives on Settlement Pension Payments
The Netherlands has cancelled reported plans to cut the pension of a Dutch Holocaust survivor as a result of her residing in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, according to Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post. […]
The Nakba: Israel’s Catastrophe
By Vacy Vlazna “By military force, the Jewish forces conquered 78% of Palestine in 1948 and depopulated 675 towns and villages, leaving only 15% of its Palestinian citizens under the rule of the Jewish forces. […]
‘Illegal under International Law’: EU Slams Israel’s Settlement Plans in East Jerusalem
The EU has criticized Israel for recently approving the construction of 900 new settler homes in East Jerusalem, joining the US and Palestinian condemnation of Tel-Aviv’s settlement policies. “Israel’s determination to continue its settlement policy […]
Bedouin Families East of Jerusalem Face Forced Evacuation
Dozens of Palestinian families living in the Bedouin Abu Nuwwar village to the east of Jerusalem will be forced from their land in less than a month, locals told Ma’an on Saturday. Israeli authorities are […]
Gaza: Children in Crisis
By Hilary Wise Mona Samouni was 10-years-old when she lost her home, her parents and 19 other relatives, after they were crushed before her eyes in one of the bombing raids of Israel’s Operation Cast […]
Israeli Forces Shoot, Seriously Injure Palestinian near Nablus
Israeli forces shot and seriously injured a Palestinian man in al-Fara refugee camp north of Nablus on Thursday, locals said. Rabee Jamal Mubarak, 22, was shot in the back and abdomen, witnesses said, as Israeli […]
Israel Approves 900 East Jerusalem Settler Homes
Israel has approved construction of 900 settler homes in annexed East Jerusalem, a watchdog said Thursday shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed a new right-wing religious coalition. The new homes will be built […]
NZ Super-annuitants Profit from Gaza Children’s Agony
By Vacy Vlazna The shocking decision by the government-owned New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) to NOT divest from Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL), manufacturer of white phos-phorus, blatantly violates the NZSF Responsibilities: “ethical investment including policies, […]
Israeli Court Makes Way for Demolition of Palestinian Village
An Israeli high court ruling has rejected a request to halt the demolition of a Palestinian West Bank village. Activists fear the worst is soon to come for the settlement of 340 people, which has […]
Senate’s Iran Bill Won’t Require Tehran to Recognize Israel – Reports
As the US Senate continues to debate a bill that would allow it to weigh in on a possible nuclear deal with Iran, Republican leaders appear ready to vote on a proposal that will not […]
Birzeit Wins again: Students of the West Bank Unite
By Ramzy Baroud In November 1993, I was on a mission. At the age of 21, I wanted to change the world, starting with Birzeit University, the second-largest Palestinian university in the West Bank, situated […]
French Judges End Inquiry into Arafat’s 2004 Death
French judges re-examining the evidence surrounding the 2004 death of former president Yasser Arafat have concluded their investigations, the prosecutors office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said Tuesday. “The judges have closed their dossier […]
France is Selling out Israel – Just Like it Abandoned Czechs in 1938
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius intends to propose a UN Security Council resolution that would present a framework for negotiations to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That framework will include the 1967 lines as a basis […]
Pressure Rises on Robbie Williams and UNICEF over Israel Gig
Roger Waters has written an open letter to British pop-star Robbie Williams, pleading with him not to play Tel Aviv on May 2nd. The ex-Pink Floyd front man told Mr Williams that his decision to […]