Following days of intense debates and right-wing media rhetoric, Republicans have finally managed to oust Democrat Ilhan Omar from her committee post in Congress, on Thursday. The vote in favor of the unusual move was […]
The human rights group Amnesty International issued a new report on Wednesday, one year after its comprehensive report on Israeli apartheid. “Since the organization launched a major campaign against apartheid one year ago, Israeli forces […]
The Israeli occupation forces and Jewish settlers carried out more than 700 attacks against Palestinians and their properties during the month of January, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission. In its monthly report […]
Last Sunday I attended a live talk online featuring Palestinian human rights lawyer and activist, Jonathan Kuttab. The talk, entitled “What is required of our church to be in solidarity with Palestine?”, was hosted by […]
The Israeli parliament (Knesset) passed on Monday the first reading of a bill aimed at revoking the citizenship or permanent residency of Palestinians who committed acts of resistance, the official news agency WAFA reported. According […]
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has announced plans to introduce legislation allowing the death penalty against Palestinians, Israeli media reported. According to The Times of Israel, the far-right politician made the announcement following a […]
A Palestinian teenager was killed Saturday night by a Jewish settler near the settlement of Kedumim, illegally built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank province of Qalqilia, the official news agency WAFA reported. […]
The foreign affairs critic of Canada’s social democratic NDP, Heather McPherson, recently published a statement critical of the aggressively racist new Israeli government. It decried “rising anti-Semitism” but ignored Jewish supremacy. But this is how B’Tselem described […]
Amnesty International said on Thursday that the deadly Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp is a horrifying reminder of the cost of impunity, the official news agency WAFA reported. “In the space of just […]
Accusing Israel of committing the crime of apartheid is antisemitic, the European Union High Representative of Foreign Policy Josep Borrell has said. The claim was made on Friday in a written response to a question […]
The Israeli Prison Service transferred veteran Palestinian prisoner Nael al-Barghouti, 65 from Eshel Prison to Nafha Desert Prison on Monday, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club. Al-Barghouti has recently entered his 43rd year in captivity. […]
New Israeli guidelines on access to the Occupied West Bank for foreigners threaten to further isolate Palestinians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today. The guidelines came into force in October 2022 and were amended in […]
Key Israeli cabinet members gathered on Sunday to initiate a new wave of demolitions against Palestinian homes in Area C after a dispute erupted over the rare expulsion of illegal Jewish settlers from a new […]
Israeli occupation forces demolished two Palestinian-owned residential structures on Sunday, in the village of Artas, near Bethlehem, the official news agency WAFA reported. Lutfi Asaad, the mayor of the village, told WAFA that an Israeli […]
The visit by a far-right Israeli government minister to the third-holiest site in Islam has caused an international outcry. However, the European Union’s response has remained curiously muted. The Palestinian leadership denounced Itamar Ben-Gvir for […]
The International Court of Justice confirmed on Friday that it officially received a request from the United Nations General Assembly to give an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s Occupation of the Palestinian […]
Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian man on Saturday morning, near the town of Kufr Nimeh, west of Ramallah, the official news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a […]
Over the past week, Israeli occupation forces killed 8 Palestinians, the youngest being a 14-year-old boy, bringing the total death toll from Israeli fire, in the West Bank, to 18 in the first 20 days […]
Jewish settlers set up a new settlement outpost in the northern West Bank on Friday, Anadolu News Agency reported. “A group of settlers established a settlement outpost on the lands of Jureesh town, south of […]
It has been an unusually warm winter in Barcelona, with clear skies that have allowed a dazzling sun to push temperatures up, at times into the low twenties. But on Tuesday, January 17, the elements […]
Israeli police Thursday night attacked Palestinians at Bab al-Amoud in the occupied city of East Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Eyewitnesses told WAFA that Israeli heavily-armed police forced Palestinian youths who gathered […]
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian youth on Friday, near the apartheid wall north of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, the official news agency WAFA reported. Official Palestinian sources told WAFA that […]
Following strong protests, Harvard University Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf announced Thursday that he would reverse his decision to deny a fellowship to the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Kenneth Roth, the Harvard Crimson […]
The Israeli occupation authorities released Palestinian prisoner Maher Younis after holding him for forty years in prison, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) reported. Younis, 63, was one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. […]
In a self-congratulatory article published in the Atlantic in 2017, Yossi Klein Halevi describes Israeli behavior at the just-conquered holy Muslim shrines in Occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 as “an astonishing moment of religious restraint”. […]
Jewish settlers stole 90 sheep from a Palestinian family on Monday after attacking a girl guarding them, The New Arab reported. According to The New Arab, the incident took place near Ein Al-Auja, an area […]
Palestinian activists launched an online campaign on Monday to highlight the anti-Palestinian racism and discriminatory sentiment at the heart of Israel’s 37th Government, which was elected on 1 November 1, 2022. EuroPal Forum said in […]
Israeli soldiers detained this morning an Italian solidarity activist during a raid at the Deheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, the official news agency WAFA reported. Local sources told WAFA […]
A 14-year-old child, who was critically injured on Monday morning during an Israeli army assault on the Deheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, succumbed to his wounds, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Ministry […]
Israeli police assaulted Palestinians in Jerusalem during a solidarity demonstration late on Friday, while standing by as groups of extremist Israelis chanted “We Want Nakba now”, led by a city councilman, The New Arab reported. […]
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