Antisemitism, The Labour Party and Regime Change
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 […]
Hasbara
Hollywood Star: I was ‘Fed Huge Amount of Lies’ about Israel
Hollywood’s Seth Rogen on Monday said he was fed a “huge amount” of lies about Israel, as Palestinians were left out of the narrative. In the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, Rogen, who is Jewish […]
Israel Continues to be Rewarded for Killing American Sailors: Remembering the USS Liberty
USS Liberty being towed to Malta after being attack by Israel’s air and naval forces. Photo: US Navy. June 8, 1967, stands as yet another “date of infamy” in the annals of American history. And […]
Israel On Edge As Murder of George Floyd Sparks Global Demand for Justice: #BlackLivesMatter
Does the current wave of protests across America sparked by the brutal murder of George Floyd, present an existential threat to Israel? Astounding as it sounds, Israel’s propagandists and defenders have been shocked to suddenly […]
West Bank Annexation, Orientalism and More (PALESTINE CHRONICLE TV)
Join our editors Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo as they discuss the topics of the week in the latest episode of Palestine Chronicle TV: Israel’s annexation plan; Palestine in the Western Muslim Discourse; An Israeli […]
Re-reading Ghassan Kanafani in the 21st Century
(Kanafani, Ghassan . Men in the Sun. (Trans. Hilary Kilpatrick). London: Heinemann, 1978. —. All That’s Left to You. (Trans. May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed). Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1990.) The necessity of reading […]
Refusing to be Silenced: How Rima Najjar’s Suit Against Quora Could Change the Space of Social Media
On December 31, 2019, attorneys for Dr. Rima Najjar filed a suit against Quora in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Her complaint, filed by Daniel Siegel of Siegel, Yee, […]
Anti-Palestinian Racism is Alive and Well in Canadian Universities
Controversy continues to swirl around what actually happened at the student protest against the “Reservists on Duty” meeting at York University on November 20. Canadian activists noted in a recent statement: “Last month, Palestinian students […]
‘Unabashedly Progressive, Unapologetically Zionist’: How ‘Progressive’ Jewish Groups Enabled Trump’s Executive Order
On December 11, US President Donald Trump used the occasion of a White House Chanukah reception to announce his signing of an executive order (EO) that requires alleged anti-Semitic incidents be treated in the same […]
Israeli Group Spreading Fake News about US Congresswomen Tlaib, Omar
US Democratic Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have been subjected to far-right, Islamophobic fake news that is being composed and spread on Facebook by an Israeli group, reported the Guardian. The investigation revealed how 21 far-right […]
Anatomy of a Zionist Smear Campaign: Jerusalem Post Admits to Fabrications
On November 20, 2019, Israel advocacy club Herut Canada held a public meeting entitled “Reservists on Duty” at York University in Toronto. The meeting billed itself as a chance to hear from “real Israeli soldiers” […]
Israel Uses Fabricated Stories to Promote Jewish Immigration
Fabricated immigrant stories and quotes along with stock images of people were posted on Twitter by the Israeli Immigrant Integration Ministry to encourage Jews to relocate to the Jewish state. An investigation undertaken by the Times […]
Speaking for Israel: A Speechwriter Battle’s Anti-Israeli Opinions at the United Nations
(Speaking for Israel: A Speechwriter Battle’s Anti-Israeli Opinions at the United Nations. Aviva Klompas. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2019.) I expected much more from a book speaking for Israel, something to truly engage the mind […]
The Israel Project ‘On Its Way to Being Shut Down’
Due to difficulties collecting donations that led to its bankruptcy, The Israel Project (TIP) on Wednesday closed its office in Israel, Haaretz reported yesterday. The US NGO has faced a severe budget crisis and, according to […]
The (Continuing) Vilification of Richard Falk
In one of his blogs Richard Falk, who has made many trips to Africa, talked of his love of giraffes. They have no vocal cords, which cannot be said of him, but they stick their […]
Netanyahu Uses DNA Claim to Deny Palestinian Right to Homeland
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday tweeted that the Palestinians’ connection to the Land of Israel is nothing compared to the 4,000-year connection that the Jewish people have with the land. He cited a recent article stating […]
Israeli Students Forced to Pass Propaganda Course before Overseas School Trips
The Israeli government is compelling high school students to pass an online propaganda course before being allowed to participate in overseas class trips, a course promoting “racist ideology”. Legal rights center Adalah has written to the Education […]
Israel Systematically Hides Documents Related to Nakba
Teams from Israel’s Defence Ministry started a decade ago to remove and hide documents from the Israeli archives related to crimes against Palestinians during the Nakba of 1948, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed yesterday. In a long report, Haaretz said […]
Suppression of Palestinian Voices on Social Media Is Nothing New
In an article on Telesur as far back as December 2017 reporters cited Glenn Greenwald’s observation that an increase in Israeli military repression of Palestinian citizens was joined by what Greenwald called a “censorship rampage” […]
Israel Forced Closure of 30 Fundraising Accounts Associated to BDS
Israel has forced 30 fundraising accounts associated with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to close in the past two years. The Ministry of Strategic Affairs – which oversees Israel’s anti-BDS efforts – announced yesterday […]
Israel Sets up Fake Eurovision Boycott Page to Counter BDS Campaign
Sporting the URL boycotteurovision.net, Israel’s PR website masquerades as part of a campaign to boycott the Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv but actually features pro-Israel narrative. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement aims […]
A Dictionary of Media Terms for the Palestine/Israel ‘Conflict’
What is the point of journalism if not to question, doubt, and challenge state or elite power? If a journalist merely reports the standard talking points of that power (as most corporate media journalists do), […]
Fascism in Our Time: Christchurch Shooting vs. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre
The Christchurch shooting and ensuing furor over white supremacy brought to mind a similar massacre of Muslims in a mosque in Palestine perpetrated by a Jewish supremacist several decades ago. Two recent headlines about fascism […]
Hollywood Stars Raise Record $60m for Israeli Army
Hollywood celebrities raised a record-breaking $60 million for the Israeli military at the Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF) annual gala last week. This year’s sold-out Western Region event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel welcomed […]
US School Textbooks: Arab Rejection of Israel Cause of Conflict
Schools in the US state of Texas will be required to teach students that “Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict” in the Middle East. The Texas Board of Education […]
Manufacturing Dissent: Fake Pro-Israel Protest Revealed (VIDEOS)
A fake pro-Israel protest manufactured by US-based lobbying groups has been exposed in an exclusive clip from a censored Al Jazeera documentary on Israel’s influence in the US. The release of the much-anticipated US version […]
German Music Festival Censors Composer for Israel Criticism
Anglo-German composer Wieland Hoban was banned from this year’s Donaueschingen music festival. Hoban’s ‘Hora’ot Pticha Be’esh (Rules of Engagement I)‘ is an instrumental piece featuring sampled declarations from an Israeli sergeant who took part in […]
Ethical Jews Reject Zionism
By Yoav Litvin Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government has abandoned any façade of democracy and liberalism and is effectively exposing Zionism as a racist and nationalistic project rooted in white supremacy, settler […]
Knesset Foils Efforts to End Israeli Apartheid
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth For most of the seven decades after its establishment, Israel went to extraordinary lengths to craft an image of itself as a “light unto the nations”. It claimed to have […]
International Law Guarantees Palestinians the Right To Resist
By CJ Werleman If Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal—and it is—under international law, then by definition Palestinian resistance of that occupation is legitimate. Pro-Israel propaganda is not only extraordinarily well funded and organized, […]
