(Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on The Tragedy of Israel-Palestine. Richard Forer. Mindstir Media, 2020) Bookshelves are overflowing with books on Palestine and Israel. One might imagine that there are no new angles […]
The Israeli government is trying to expand the jurisdiction of the northern Jewish town of Harish by nearly 50 percent to prevent Palestinians from forming a majority in the area, Haaretz reported. The request, proposed […]
Israeli soldiers today attacked Palestinian farmers working on their land in Beit Ummar town, in the south of the West Bank, and forced them to leave their land, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. […]
On October 29, the leader of the main opposition, Labor party in the UK, Jeremy Corbyn, was dismissed from the Party which he had been a member all his adult life. The apparent issue was […]
Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir Al-Saba’, an ethnically cleansed Palestinian town located in the southern Naqab […]
Israel will impose sanctions and penalties on Palestinian banks which process payments from the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the families of Palestinians who have spent time in Israeli jails, Israeli media reported. 'While Palestinian Arabs […]
Jewish settlers cut off electricity poles in the village of Al-Sawiya in the northern occupied West Bank, Maan News Agency reported. The Palestinian official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, […]
Israeli forces dawn Friday shot and injured three Palestinians near Jalameh military checkpoint, northeast of Jenin city, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources confirmed that Israeli forces opened fire at a Palestinian-registered […]
The US-Israeli narrative on Palestine goes a step further than the designated humanitarian label which the international community imposed upon the Palestinian people. As US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman predicted that up to ten […]
“It’s grotesque to blame third party voters for the unwillingness of Democrats to stand up to Trump,” Steven Salaita tweeted, “just another pathetic chapter in the long American tradition of punishing the dispossessed for the […]
Members of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, have proposed a bill that would revoke Israeli citizenship for Arab prisoners who receive financial aid from the Palestinian Authority, Anadolu Agency has reported. While Palestinian Arabs who live […]
Three Palestinian prisoners are on hunger strike along with Maher Al-Akhras, who has abstained from food for 95 days, in protest against illegal Israeli measures against them, the Palestine Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported yesterday. The […]
PA President Mahmoud Abbas Wednesday called on the United Nations to hold urgent consultations on convening an international peace conference. Abbas sent a letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres urging him to hold urgent consultations […]
Palestinian Archbishop Atallah Hanna condemned the targeting of Muslims in France and around the world through degrading paintings and cartoons. Hanna, who is the Archbishop of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in […]
Why does Israel hate Palestinian singer, Mohammed Assaf? On October 16, Avi Dichter, Israeli Member of Parliament from the right-wing Likud Party, announced that Assaf’s special permit to enter the occupied Palestinian West Bank would […]
(Wealth and Power: Global Transformation and Destruction 1492 to 2020 Part 2: Transformation to Urban Industrial Capitalism and the path to Global War) This is a history blog… Unlike any history, you have been taught. The blog […]
Jewish settlers today stole material Palestinian farmers were using for the olive harvest in the village of Jaloud, near the West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities […]
US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft told the UN Security Council on Monday that the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 “is no longer needed”, Al-Watan Voice reported. Kraft said: “[US President Donald] Trump’s […]
An Israeli Knesset committee has called for banning a film documenting Israel’s siege on the occupied Palestinian West Bank city of Jenin in 2002 and the crimes carried out against its residents, Quds Press reported […]
UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov on Monday demanded an “independent investigation” after a Palestinian youth was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank. Amer Abdel-Rahim Snobar was pronounced dead on […]
The unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip has hit 70 percent as a result of Israel’s ongoing siege of the enclave and the lockdowns which have resulted from coronavirus, the head of the Palestinian […]
The Israeli occupation authorities demolished today a Palestinian-owned house for construction in the Israeli-controlled Area C of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Rateb Jabour, an activist in the south […]
On Monday, Palestinian religious scholars in Gaza joined worldwide protests condemning inflammatory anti-Islamic practices and official statements by French media and government officials. Like many Muslims across the world, the Gaza scholars called for an […]
Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political, economic and social mess. That […]
Palestinian artists Wisam Abu al-Amrin and Rifqah Hijazi paint large murals on Gaza city walls to raise awareness of the importance of wearing the mask as a prevention tool against the COVID-19. (The Palestine Chronicle)
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) urgently needs $130 million to cover its budget deficit for this year, spokesman Kazem Abu-Khalaf said yesterday. Speaking to Palestine Voice radio, Abu-Khalaf said the money […]
Israeli occupation forces today detained 13 Palestinians, including a cancer patient, from various parts of the occupied territories, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). In Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank, Israeli […]
Sinn Fein Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), Pat Sheehan, today called for the immediate release of Palestinian hunger striker Maher al-Akhras who has now reached a critical stage, according to a press statement. “Palestinian […]
The family of Palestinian detainee Maher al-Akhras said Saturday they have joined him on a hunger strike until he is released, Anadolu reports. “We announced starting a hunger strike until my father is free,” according […]
A Palestinian teenager was killed early Sunday after he was severely beaten by Israeli occupation soldiers near the village of Turmus-Ayya, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security and medical sources. […]
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