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Writers Challenge Israeli Embassy’s Presence at Literary Festival
By Mike Kuhlenbeck More than a hundred writers have signed a letter calling on the PEN American Center “to reject support from the Embassy of Israel” for the 12th annual World Voices Festival in New York […]
Thousands March on 40th Land Day to Protest Decades of Land Grabs (VIDEOS)
Thousands of Palestinians across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory marched Wednesday to commemorate the 40th Land Day, protesting decades of Israeli land grabs. “Palestinians are entitled to their land and they will give up […]
Shadow Minister: UK Abstention on Israeli Settlements Resolution at UNHRC ‘Hypocritical’
The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) been sharply criticized for the behavior of British diplomats in Geneva last week, who tried to pressure the Palestinians to water down a resolution on Israel’s illegal settlements. […]
What’s It Like to Be a Young Palestinian Refugee in Lebanon Today?
By Venetia Rainey – Beirut Of all the countries Palestinians settled in when they fled or were forced from what is now Israel nearly 70 years ago, Lebanon remains the most hostile to providing basic […]
Prepared Remarks: Sanders Outlines Middle East Policy
Senator Bernard Sanders Salt Lake City Utah March 21, 2016 Let me begin that I have a deep personal connection to Israel – and I am fairly certain I am the only U.S. presidential candidate […]
Clinton Tells AIPAC: Trump ‘Has No Business Being President’ because He Would Be ‘Neutral’ to Israel
If there was any doubt that Hillary Clinton is running to the right of Donald Trump on Israel, she removed it this morning with a fist-pumping hard-right speech to the Israel lobby group AIPAC that […]
PHOTOS: 5-year-old Duma Attack Survivor, Ahmad Dawabsha, Meets Real Madrid Idol
A Palestinian child whose family was killed in an arson attack committed by Israeli settlers last year was welcomed by major Spanish football club Real Madrid on Thursday. Ahmad Dawabsha, 5, arrived at the Real […]
Meshaal to France24: We Seek to Meet with Fatah Soon and Avoid War
Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, said that his movement aims to avoid wars, stressing that what is occurring in the West Bank is a popular uprising and what is practiced by the […]
University College London Union Votes to Support BDS
By Ben White University College London Union (UCLU) voted Tuesday night to support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in what campus-based human rights campaigners hailed as a “tremendous victory.” The motion to support […]
‘Major American Jewish Leader Changes His Mind About Israel’
Israel is “a failure,” the Zionist dream has curdled into Jewish selfishness, a major Jewish leader writes in an important article published yesterday. “After a life and career devoted to Jewish community and Israel, I […]
Nuclear Annihilation of a Radical Message on Israel: The Case of Concepcion Picciotto
By Sam Husseini There were some lovely, moving moments in the memorial service of Concepcion Picciotto at Luther’s Place Church on Saturday. Concepcion is known — with William Thomas, who died a few years ago […]
Gazan Amputees Walk in Each Other’s Shoes
The friendship of three amputees was a remarkable sight to see as they stood on the beach in Gaza City, but what was even more surreal about the sight was that two of them shared […]
A Swollen River of Refugees
By David Smith-Ferri Last month, as US border patrol agents began rounding up Central American women and children denied asylum, a small group of international peace activists from Voices for Creative Nonviolence boarded a plane […]
The Most Dangerous Palestinian
By Jamal Kanj In the last week’s column, I wrote on the banned love story from the Israeli high school reading list. The Israeli education ministry claimed that young Jewish students might not comprehend “the […]
Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid in Israel – A Photo Essay
By Mats Svensson Year after year, we are still reading the same unfortunate news reports showing the evil form of Apartheid that exists in Israel today. I lived in Shuafat in East Jerusalem. I saw that […]
UN Changes Syria Siege List, Adds Madaya and Yarmouk
By Annie Slemrod The UN has quietly added four areas to its increasingly controversial list of areas under siege in Syria, including Yarmouk and Madaya, the town that brought the issue of blockades into the limelight. […]
Nonviolent Resistance in the South Hebron Hills
By Cassandra Dixon The worst worries of a child’s school day should be homework. Maybe a lost book, or an argument with a friend. No child’s walk to school should routinely involve armed soldiers and […]
Israel Planning Fresh Settlements in West Bank’s E1
Israeli authorities want to expel some 10,000 Bedouin residents of the E1 Zone in the occupied West Bank in advance of building a bloc of Jewish-only residential units linking Jerusalem to the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, […]
1st Palestinian Journalist on Hunger Strike ‘about to Die’ in Jail (VIDEO)
A Palestinian journalist who went on hunger strike 50 days ago over his six-month detention without trial in an Israeli prison is in critical condition, his family says. Muhammed al-Qeq, who was arrested by Israel’s […]
Gaza Enters 10th Year of Israeli-led Blockade Gaza
The start of 2016 sees the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip entering the 10th year of the Israeli-led and internationally-backed blockade of the territory, which is exacerbated by Egyptian support. The blockade started in the […]
Exposing Explosive Devices? Israel ‘Destroys Palestinian Crops’ along Border Fence
The Israeli military is spraying Palestinian crops with chemicals that “will cause the surrounding vegetation to wilt and prevent its growth,” media report. The IDF told reporters the elimination of the crops ensures the security […]
2015: Seven Ways BDS Broke New Ground against Israeli Settler-Colonialism and Apartheid
The year 2015 will be remembered as the year that Palestinian popular resistance spread across historic Palestine and that saw tens of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to resist and confront Israel’s regime […]
US Military Provided Assad with Intel on Extremists via Russia, Israel and Germany: Rreport
The Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff has been indirectly providing Syrian military with intelligence on Islamic extremists fearing the Obama administration’s agenda to oust Bashar Assad will engender total chaos in Syria. A new investigation […]
Rachel Corrie Sport Initiatives Aim to Counter Destruction of Israeli Policy in Gaza
By The Rachel Corrie Foundation It is July 2014, and more than a dozen people gather on the beach in Khan Yunis, the second largest urban area in the Gaza Strip. They line up plastic […]
A Day in the Life of a ‘Caravan Lady’
When the third of Israel’s recent major military offensives against my besieged country was over last year, I wrote a memoir about surviving three wars through the brutal black nights of death that I had […]
Israel’s Decades-long Policy of Holding Palestinian Bodies
Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian dead, and its impact on the living, is being questioned once again as the government continues to withhold the bodies of 22 Palestinians killed following attacks on Israelis during the […]
Report: Palestinian Security Cooperation with Israel
Set up under the 1993 Oslo Accords, security coordination involves the sharing of intelligence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The PA was also established under Oslo. Before the official signing of the agreement, the […]
More than 300 UK Academics Declare Israel Boycott
More than 300 UK scholars have declared their support for an academic boycott of Israel, with a full page advertisement in The Guardian on Tuesday. In what has been described as an unprecedented step, the […]
Abbas Set for UN Speech as Palestinian Despair Mounts
Mahmoud Abbas heads to the UN this week for a speech expected to be closely watched for clues of his intentions at a time of growing despair among Palestinians, moribund peace talks and volatility in […]
New Report Documents How Israel Keeps Palestinians off Third of West Bank Land
Around a third of the entire West Bank is closed to Palestinians as Israeli military zones, according to a new report. “Walled Garden – Declaration of Closed Areas in the West Bank” is published by […]
