By Jennifer Loewenstein Imagine the media coverage that would have awaited us in our local and national newspapers, our radio, facebook, twitter and television news alerts and special bulletins had Iran or another ‘enemy’ nation […]

By Alison Weir Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White […]

By Stephen Lendman The European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG) is "an umbrella body" of 34 European human rights and humanitarian organizations supporting the right of Palestinians "to live in peace and […]

By Jonathan Cook The ostracism of Helen Thomas, the doyenne of the White House press corps, over her comment that Jews should ‘get the hell out of Palestine’ and ‘go home’ to Poland, Germany, America and […]

By James Gundun – Washington D.C. Somewhere underground Israel defense officials debated alternate strategies to handle future aid ships headed for the Gaza strip. ‘Nothing has been decided,’ but ‘there are a lot of ideas […]

By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C Much as the Palestinian leadership would welcome the U.S. financial commitment to the tune of $400 million to alleviate, in part, the deplorable situation within Gaza, President Barak Obama’s […]

By Ahmad Amr At first glance, I thought I was reading a parody mocking the absurd list of the products that are banned from reaching Gaza. The Associated Press just published an article titled “Israel […]

By Jehan Bseiso No matter flag.No matter medicine.No matter civilian.No matter international community.No matter your international waters.No matter your sanctions, no matter your rhetoric and foreign policy.Only 62 years status quo, Everyday Nakba,Subsidized settlements,Even more […]

By Jonathan Cook Why are Israelis so indignant at the international outrage that has greeted their country’s lethal attack last week on a flotilla of civilian ships taking aid to Gaza?  Israelis have not responded in […]

By Sama Adnan While world leaders condemned Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla and eight European governments summoned their Israeli ambassadors, the response of the Obama administration was painfully muted and embarrassingly awkward, regretting the […]

By Pete Jones JNF eBook (Volume II, May 2010): Preparing for Legal Action – Focus: Canada Park. Editor: Uri Davis. Forward: Salman Abu Sitta. (To view the book, click here) The project to de-mask the […]

By Jeremy Salt – Ankara … but first,  does it really exist? As an oppositional force to the ‘east’, the political ‘west’ arose in the wake of the Second World War, when the ‘east’ was […]

By Miko Peled Is it possible to be shocked and yet not be surprised? Israel’s stupidity and disregard for human life is nothing new. It is a recurring theme in the life of the Jewish state […]

By Nicola Nasser The attack in the international waters of the Mediterranean in the early hours of May 31 by an elite force of the Israeli navy on the Turkish – flagged Mavi Marmara civilian […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth An Israeli parliamentary committee recommended stripping an Arab MP of her privileges yesterday in a move to prepare the ground for putting her on trial for participating last week in the […]

By Ramzy Baroud I grew up by the Gaza sea. Through my childhood, I could never quite comprehend how such a giant a body of water, which promised such endless freedom, could also border on […]

By Jeremy Salt – Ankara In the wake of the storming of the Mavi Marmara (Blue Marmara), the truth cannot be obscured by the propaganda pouring out of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, particularly out of […]

By Gary Corseri Does Israel have a ‘right to exist’? Do we? It’s a shibboleth of the Zionist entity: ‘Israel has the right to exist!’ But what is this ‘Israel’? What is this ‘right to exist’? Where […]

By Neve Gordon In Israel, almost all of the protests against the navy’s assault on the relief flotilla took place in Palestinian space. Palestinian citizens in almost every major town and city, from Nazareth to […]

By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria South Africa’s response to the dastardly act of piracy and blatant savagery by the Israeli regime is reflective of a global mood that is increasingly becoming less tolerant of contemptuous […]

By Rich Wiles Through the recent murderous events in international waters Israel has once again shown its true colours and its total disregard for humanity. From the global reaction over the last week it seems, […]

By Belen Fernandez – Istanbul This afternoon at Istanbul’s Beyaz

By Uri Avnery On the high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on the deck resisted, the soldiers used force. Some of the […]

By William A. Cook ‘We do not need to apologize for defending ourselves. The armada of hate and violence is merely one manifestation of the constant provocation Israel faces.’ — (Danny Ayalon, Deputy Foreign Minister […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London I must have got it all wrong. I thought the first duty of a government was to protect its citizens from assault while going about their lawful business. "There is […]

By Richard Jones If you once thoughtthat when you crushed her bonesand stopped her mouth with sand and stonemurder would bring silence,then think again. If you once countedon distance in time and spaceto wear away […]

By Susan Abulhawa In yet another of Israel’s ‘operations’ against unarmed civilians, Israel went at least 50 miles into international waters and boarded a global humanitarian flotilla from the Free Gaza Movement, which was carrying […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Moshe Dayan, Israel’s most celebrated general, famously outlined the strategy he believed would keep Israel’s enemies at bay: “Israel must be a like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” Until now, […]

By Jo Neace Krause To be born in Gaza is to feel your bodyeven in sleep picked atby an ancient wind To be spotted on your bedlike grey debris, the twisted leg of historywashed up […]