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Month: November 2020
Israeli Army Expels 10 Palestinian Families for Military Drills in Jordan Valley
Israeli forces today forcefully expelled over ten Palestinian families from their houses in the northern Jordan Valley to make room for military drills, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Aref Daraghmeh, a local human […]
Unemployment Rate Reaches 82% in Gaza Strip amid Coronavirus Crisis
The economic repercussions of the coronavirus have led to an increase in the unemployment rate in the besieged Gaza Strip by 17 percent, with 82 percent of the population now out of work, the head […]
US Congresswoman Omar Calls on Biden to Reverse Trump’s Deals with the Middle East
US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has called America’s allies in the Gulf “dictators” and said that agreements between regional states and Israel are not “peace deals”. Omar made her comments in an article in The Nation. […]
Palestine: A Receptacle of Resistance – A Poem
By Yanis Iqbal Palestine: a carpet of cadavers, a swamp of blood, a garden of ashen smoke. Olive green of missiles, iron fists of tanks, the blue-black of high caliber guns – Can a place […]
Reports: Netanyahu Flies to Saudi Arabia for Secret meeting with Pompeo, Bin Salman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a secret trip to Saudi Arabia yesterday to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Accompanied by Chief of Israeli Mossad Yossi […]
Jewish Settlers Attack Palestinian Vehicles in Northern West Bank
Jewish settlers today intercepted and attacked Palestinian vehicles traveling between Nablus and Qalqilya in the north of the West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the […]
Israeli Army Bombs Multiple Sites in Gaza (VIDEO)
Israeli warplanes last night and early today morning bombed several sites across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing property damages but no casualties, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli warplanes fired three rockets at […]
Jewish Settlers Assault Elderly Palestinian near Bethlehem
Fanatic Jewish settlers assaulted today a Palestinian elderly and his son in the hamlet of Shushahla, to the south of the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency […]
‘No Thanks, No Giving’ in the Time of the Coronavirus
By Benay Blend In November 2018 Nick Estes of The Red Nation—Albuquerque invited friends to a pot-luck and teach-in that was to be an alternative to the “genocidal” holiday of Thanksgiving. Modeled on the National […]
South Africa Exempts Israel from Visa Requirements but not Palestinians: Why the Double Standards?
By Iqbal Jassat Following my Facebook posting earlier this month in which I applauded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan for his firm stance against “normalization” with Israel, a friend posed an interesting query. He asked […]
Jewish Settlers Raid Village in West Bank, Attack Palestinian Homes
Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers, raided today al-Tuwanah, one of the nine hamlets of Masafer Yatta, a Bedouin community located south of Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers […]
Israeli Forces Arrest Palestinian Medic while Treating Protesters in West Bank
Israeli occupation forces today arrested a medic who was treating injured protesters during a demonstration against the establishment of a new settlement outpost in the Ras Al-Tin area in Kafr Malik village, east of Ramallah. […]
WATCH: Ramzy Baroud on Pompeo’s Designation of BDS as ‘Antisemitic’
The United States Secretary of State has made an unprecedented visit to an Israeli settlement in the illegally occupied West Bank and the disputed Golan Heights – the first chief diplomat from the U.S to […]
A Return to Collaboration over Israel’s Security Narrative
By Ramona Wadi US President-elect Joe Biden has not yet taken office, but Israel’s false security narrative is already taking precedence over everything else. Meanwhile, within the ranks of the Palestinian Authority which gambled with […]
Why is an NDP MP Joining a Task Force Seeking to Force Twitter, Facebook to Apply Anti-Palestine Solidarity IHRA Definition?
By Aidan Jonah New Democratic Party member of parliament Randall Garrison recently joined an unofficial task force which is lobbying Facebook and Twitter to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which considers any criticism of […]
Palestinian Authority Considers Cutting Stipends to Palestinian Prisoners
The Palestinian Authority is considering stopping paying stipends to Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails as well as to the families of Palestinians who are killed by Israel, the New York Times reported. The paper […]
US Pompeo Visits West Bank Settlement, Golan Heights, in First
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday became the first top American diplomat to visit a West Bank Jewish settlement and the disputed Golan Heights, cementing Donald Trump’s strongly pro-Israel legacy. On a farewell […]
Israel to Evict 400 Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah
Israeli occupation authorities have issued a decision to forcibly evict 400 Palestinians, including women and children, from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Jerusalem affairs specialist, Fakhri Abu Diyab, told Al-Mugtama […]
‘Total Reset’ is Wishful Thinking: The Daunting Task of Reordering US Foreign Policy
By Ramzy Baroud A new term has imposed itself on the conversation regarding the impending presidency of US President-elect, Joe Biden: “The Total Reset”. Many headlines have already promised that the Biden Presidency is […]
‘I Am Greta’ isn’t about Climate Change. It’s about the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
By Jonathan Cook Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on […]
The EU has Played a Waiting Game to Israel’s Advantage
By Ramona Wadi There are a couple of meaningful things that the EU should do, without delay: it should drop the pretence that it supports the Palestinian people’s right to their own land, and it […]
Pompeo: US to Label BDS Movement as ‘Anti-Semitic’
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Washington will take measures against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which seeks to isolate Israel over its treatment of the Palestinians. Washington “will regard the […]
US Lawmakers Accuse Pompeo of Complicity in Israel’s ‘Violation of International Law’
US lawmakers have joined in the near-global condemnation of the “brutal and violent” Israeli home demolitions. Some 41 Democratic Congress members signed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, over the Zionist state’s “serious […]
UAE, Bahrain Vote against Israeli-Sponsored UN Resolution
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain voted against an Israeli-sponsored resolution on entrepreneurship for sustainable development yesterday at the UN General Assembly’s Second Committee. This comes despite the countries being quick to act on new […]
Bahraini Foreign Minister Lands in Israel, Promises Full Normalization
By Palestine Chronicle Staff Bahrain and Israel cemented their diplomatic agreement with a visit to Tel Aviv on Wednesday by a top Bahraini official. The Bahraini foreign minister Abdullatif al-Zayani arrived in Israel on […]
As Israel Destroys EU Projects in Palestine, European Foreign Policy Remains Impotent
By Ramzy Baroud Belgium is furious. On November 6, the Belgian government condemned Israel’s destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. Understandably, Brussels wants the Israeli government to pay compensation for […]
Israelis Return to West Bank Illegal Settlement Evacuated in 2005
Dozens of Israelis have returned to a former West Bank settlement, evacuated in 2005 under orders from then prime minister Ariel Sharon, to claim the land as Israeli, multiple sources said Tuesday. Sa-Nur was one […]
Israeli PM Netanyahu has ‘Warm’ Conversation with Biden
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a “warm conversation” with US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, Netanyahu’s office said, in a delayed and clear acknowledgment of Biden’s election defeat of the Israeli leader’s ally Donald […]
Palestinian Authority to Resume Cooperation with Israel
The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a now-frozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday. Civil Affairs […]
‘Today I Struck a Woman’: Witnessing the Destruction of Palestinian Livelihood in Jerusalem
I always hear about demolitions and confiscations after the fact. But this is the first time I witness the act of destruction in real-time; the first time I witness the turmoil experienced by the victims […]