Around 3,000 Palestinians have signed a petition calling for Mahmoud Abbas to resign from his triple position as head of the Fatah movement, head of the PLO and Palestinian Authority chairman. In April, Abbas, whose […]
Beitunia Municipality, one of the main Ramallah neighborhoods, has offered tax waivers to shops that boycott Israeli products, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported on Wednesday. According to the online newspaper, the shops, which are completely empty of […]
To better understand what is happening and how and why the events in Palestine/Israel matter to us all, the Muslim Association of Puget Sound (MAPS) hosted an awareness-raising event on June 4. The following esteemed […]
The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said today that his country is interested in rebuilding the relationship with the Palestinian people. In a tweet, Blinken said he had an important conversation with Palestinian-American […]
Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched in front of the port of Oakland in California yesterday in an attempt to block the delivery of Israeli ship cargo, in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian people […]
The Parliament of the Brussels–Capital Region has adopted a pro-Palestinian resolution that calls for condemning the Israeli occupation of Palestine and recognizing the State of Palestine on the borders of pre-1967. The resolution also calls […]
The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman to convey a strongly worded message of protest regarding the detention of two Jordanian citizens in Israel and the manner in […]
An evocative French film set in a Hiroshima destroyed by the United States atomic bomb has been haunting me these dreadful days of carnage in Gaza. I refer to the 1959 anti-war masterpiece Hiroshima Mon […]
Hold the hope, my sunbird, Hold that hope. In times of thunder, Choking blazes and smoke, Don’t lose hope. It’s this hope she wants to burn. The vision of home. The passion for the […]
Another important development in terms of solidarity with the Palestinian people has been reported in the football fields of the British Premier League. Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba became the latest footballer to display the […]
The US corporate media usually report on Israeli military assaults in occupied Palestine as if the United States is an innocent neutral party to the conflict. In fact, large majorities of Americans have told pollsters […]
Israel has a right to exist and to defend itself. That’s a fact. The same is true for Palestinians – that point seems to get missed. Palestinians are, at best, third-class citizens in the nation […]
Despite its professional journalism and public media, German journalism is still lacking when it comes to Palestine and Israel. When approaching coverage regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine journalists, tend to be too cautious, labor […]
Scores of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza following Israeli security forces’ crackdowns on Jerusalem worshippers and unarmed protesters. Follow our regularly updated Live Blog below for more information. Thursday, May 20, 10:15 PM […]
Since the start of the Israeli aggression, first against East Jerusalem, then Gaza and the rest of Palestine, many athletes around the world expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for freedom. I […]
Palestinian journalist and editor of The Palestine Chronicle Ramzy Baroud discusses the ongoing crisis in Palestine. (TRT)
Palestine, like many countries around the world, commemorated International Workers’ Day on Saturday, May 1. But for a country that is overwhelmed with a persisting military occupation, thus exploitation and unemployment of large sectors of […]
Over thirty years ago, James Baldwin was the subject of a PBS documentary The Price of the Ticket (1989) in which he reflected on what he considered a lack of progress in combatting racism in […]
Three Palestinians were injured late Saturday by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Anadolu Agency reports. A ministry statement said three Palestinians were treated from gas inhalation in […]
COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially in Gaza, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of a greatly contagious coronavirus variant which was first identified in Britain. Gaza has always been vulnerable to the […]
On CBC’s The House on Saturday Jagmeet Singh was asked about resolutions submitted to next week’s NDP convention regarding “Canada’s relationship to Israel and the Palestinian territory”. Instead of responding to the question, the NDP leader mentioned “anti-Semitism” four times. […]
(Engaging the World: The making of Hamas’s foreign policy. Daud Abdullah. Afro-Middle East Centre (AMEC), 2020.) Hamas has been a strongly maligned actor within the western mainstream media. The concise and well-written “Engaging the World” […]
2021 kicked off astoundingly well for South Africa’s broad-based Palestinian solidarity movements. If what they notched up in a series of groundbreaking results in defense of Palestine’s freedom struggle during the first quarter of the […]
Normalization with Israel would bring “tremendous benefit” to the region, the Saudi foreign minister has said, but such an accord with the kingdom would depend on progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Under the “Abraham […]
“We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire,” said Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, “but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you […]
The Muslim Students Organization of India, an outfit dedicated to moderate Islamic thoughts and justice-inclined Indian policies, organized a conference on the subject, “What Role Can India Play As A Friend of Palestine?” The conference […]
(From Jerusalem to a Kingdom by the Sea, by Adel A. Dajani. Published by Zuleika London on March 11, 2021.) What happened to the families of Palestine? Those that were ushered out of their country […]
A study released today by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Water Authority suggests that only four percent of households in the Gaza Strip have access to safely managed water, compared […]
The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has announced a three-year package of support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), under which Ireland will […]
(Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour. Barbara Tuchmann. NYU Press, 1956; Preface, 1984; Random House, 2014) Part of history is reading historical documents, and it is in this […]
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