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Month: March 2017
PCHR: 6 Legal Memos on Israeli War Crimes Filed with the ICC
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) confirmed that six legal memorandums have been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. “The […]
UN Report: Israel Has Established an ‘Apartheid Regime’
(Update (17/3//17): since this article was first published, ESCWA has been forced to remove the report from its website. It can be viewed/downloaded here: UN ESCWA Israel Apartheid Report.) A new United Nations report accuses Israel of […]
Rights Group: UN Pressured to Withdraw Report Saying Israel ‘Apartheid’ State
The European-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights (EMOHR) said on Friday that the UN had come under pressure to withdraw its report accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” on Palestinians, Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu reported. The […]
Palestinian BDS Committee Responds to UN Head’s Resignation over Israel ‘Apartheid’ Report
By Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) Dr. Rima Khalaf, Director of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), resigned from her post following pressure from the US and Israel over a report issued […]
Whether You Stumble, or Stand Up: A Song for Basil Al-Araj
A group of Gaza-based activists has produced an amateur video-clip dedicated to Basil Al-Araj, the 31-year-old Palestinian activist who was ambushed and assassinated by Israeli Occupation Forces two weeks ago. Al-Araj is remembered as a young intellectual involved in […]
Thousands Attend Funeral in al-Walaja for Slain Palestinian Activist Basel al-Araj (PHOTOS & VIDEOS)
Thousands of mourners took part in a funeral procession for Basel al-Araj on Friday evening, after the 31-year-old Palestinian activist was killed by Israeli forces nearly two weeks ago. Israel has held al-Araj’s body since […]
US Envoy Hands Abbas Nine Demands to Restart Negotiations, Claims DEBKAfile
Israeli intelligence website, DEBKAfile, claimed that it has access to what it called “the US basic preconditions presented to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas by the US Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt during a […]
UN ESCWA Chief Resigns over Report on ‘Apartheid’ Israel
The head of the United Nation’s West Asia commission resigned today after what she described as pressure from the secretary-general to withdraw a report accusing Israel of imposing an “apartheid regime” on Palestinians. The Economic […]
Dear Israeli Government: I Want to Go to Palestine
By Alison Weir Dear Israeli Government, About Your New Travel Ban You’ve recently banned foreigners who support boycotts against Israel or Israeli settlements from being allowed to enter Israel – even Jewish foreigners, a first for the […]
PCHR on Hamas’ ‘Administrative Committee’: It Will Not Solve Gaza’s Problems
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Various media outlets have published reports stating that the Hamas movement in Gaza is about to form an administrative committee to run the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights […]
Systematic Dehumanization – A Poem
By Stuart Rees (To record a young Gazan student’s characteristically gutsy six week wait, with her two-year-old son, for permission to exit Gaza via Israel to Jordan, eventually having to escape through the Rafah crossing […]
Richard Gere: Settlements Are an ‘Absurd Provocation’
American actor and humanitarian activist Richard Gere has described illegal Israeli settlement “an absurd provocation”, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported on Sunday. In an interview with the paper, Gere said: “Obviously, this occupation is destroying everyone. […]
Activists: Soldiers Tried to Plant a Knife on Palestinian Teen in Hebron (VIDEO)
Israeli soldiers tried to plant a knife on a 15-year-old Palestinian teen in occupied Hebron, footage released by local activists appears to show. The reports have been called “false manipulations and an attempt to distort […]
UN: Israel Established ‘Apartheid Regime’
A UN report released yesterday has accused Israel of having established “an apartheid regime” and practices a “systematic regime of racial domination”. The 74 page document confirmed that the Israeli regime is in fact “institutionalizing” […]
US Asks Jordan to Extradite Freed Palestinian Prisoner, Ahlam al-Tamimi
The US Justice Department on Tuesday asked the government of Jordan to extradite female journalist Ahlam al-Tamimi, on account of her involvement in a deadly attack against American nationals in Occupied Jerusalem, the PIC reported. […]
US and Israeli Codependent Relationship is Not Just about Money
By Ramzy Baroud “We must look back twenty-five years to realize how far Israel has fallen in world support,” wrote famed Jewish scholar, Harvard sociologist, Nathan Glazer in 1976. In the last forty years since […]
Rights Committee: 7 Critically Ill Palestinian Prisoners Neglected
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs has expressed concern over the health of seven critically ill Palestinian prisoners held in Israel’s Ashkelon prison, warning of a continuous deterioration of their conditions due to “deliberate medical […]
Israel Shuts Down ‘Arab Society’ in Jerusalem, Arrest Its Chairman
Khalil Tufkaji, Director of Cartographic Section of the Arab Studies Society in Beit Hanina town, north of occupied Jerusalem, was arrested by Israeli forces, which stormed his office on Tuesday morning and ordered its closure, […]
Lieberman Wants to Get Rid of Arabs in Israel, Says MK
An Israeli-Arab member of parliament (MK) has condemned the proposal by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to “exchange” residents of Arab and Jewish cities, Anadolu reported on Monday. “We remained in our land despite the Nakba […]
How Israel Uses Gas to Enforce Palestinian Dependency and Promote Normalization
By Al-Shabaka (This is an edited version of a policy brief authored by Al-Shabaka Policy Fellow Tareq Baconi. Read an unabridged version here.) Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory does not only exist above ground. Since […]
VIDEO: A Palestinian Journalist Calls on Radiohead to Cancel Tel Aviv Concert
Journalist Ali Al-Arian has a message for one of his favorite artists, Thom Yorke. Don’t normalize apartheid. Cancel the show.
Air Canada Is Complicit in Israeli War Crimes and Must be Held Accountable!
By Marion Kawas Did you know that Air Canada has been outsourcing maintenance work for its B787 jets to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)? And that IAI is the largest state owned defence and aerospace company […]
The Walled Off Hotel: The Struggle for Decolonization
By Jamil Khader The British street artist known as Banksy is no stranger to controversy and the recent debate over his new installation in the town of Bethlehem, the Walled Off Hotel, does not come as […]
British Groups Urges Royal Family to Reject Israel Visit
The London-based Balfour Apology Campaign (BAC) said it feels “deeply concerned about the possibility that the British royal family might respond to an Israeli invitation to visit Tel Aviv,” PIC reported. The invitation comes on […]
Gisha: Gaza Unemployment Rate Stood At 42% in 2016
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Israeli Legal Center for the Freedom of Movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Gisha said Gaza’s unemployment rate stood at 42% in 2016 due to the Israeli siege imposed on the […]
Leading BDS Activist Banned from Israel
Israel today deported prominent British activist Hugh Lanning after blocking him from entering its territory because of his involvement in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The decision to block Lanning, who chairs the Palestine […]
Anger against the PA Growing: PFLP Suspends Participation in Elections
The Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced on Monday that it was suspending its participation in local Palestinian elections scheduled for May, in protest of Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces’ violent repression […]
Iran FM Accuses Netanyahu of ‘Fake History’ Following ‘Persians Tried to Destroy Jews’ Comments
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused Benjamin Netanyahu of resorting to “fake history” and of “selling bigoted lies” about Iran after the Israeli Prime Minister said Iran had been trying to “destroy” the Jewish people […]
Association of Caribbean States Grants Palestine Observer Status
Palestine joined on Saturday the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) as an observer state, the PIC reported. “The decision was announced at the ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers held in Cuba’s Capital, Havana,” […]
Mossawa Center Warns from Israeli Plans to Accelerate Demolition of Arab Houses
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Mossawa Center, the advocacy center for Arab citizens in Israel, said the Israeli Prime Minister is planning to introduce the Kaminitz bill, which aims to demolish more Arab houses built in […]