Writing under the title of “If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim”, Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. “If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim,” Bayoumi wrote in the British Guardian newspaper on August 6, […]
French Jewish settlers marched through Hebron (Al-Khalil), in the occupied West Bank yesterday waving Israeli flags and claiming that the entire region belongs to Israel. Pro-settler news outlet Arutz Sheva reported that more than 1,200 French Jews […]
Jewish settlers on Thursday spray-painted racist graffiti on Palestinian cars and walls of homes in az-Zawiya town in Salfit province, north of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian Information Center reports. Eyewitnesses said that a gang of […]
United States congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have called Israel’s decision to bar them from entering the country ahead of a planned visit to the occupied West Bank “a sign of weakness” and “an insult to democratic values”. Tlaib, […]
A Filipino migrant worker and her Israeli-born teenage son were in the process of being deported from Israel on Sunday night after successive court appeals failed, an NGO lobbying for children of migrants said. Rosemarie Perez was arrested by […]
The City of Vancouver, Canada might seem to be an odd place for a battle over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of Anti-Semitism. But that is exactly what happened in the last week, […]
Israel has begun rounding up scores of Filipino workers and their Israel-born children for deportation, prompting large-scale protests outside the prime minister’s residence and at the country’s Ben Gurion Airport. After Israel’s Population and Immigration […]
We have come to live in disconcerting times of unpredictable change. Ever since the USA elected a Twitter-addicted President into power, the world has been in a continuous state of imbalance. While it may seem […]
US President Donald Trump yesterday reiterated his “racist” attacks against Democratic Muslim Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, justifying his attack by claiming the women “made Israel feel abandoned by the US”, Arab48 reported. On his Twitter, […]
A court on Sunday ordered a predominantly Jewish town in northern Israel to lift a ban on non-resident visitors to its parks, a prohibition that a rights group said was aimed at keeping Arabs out. The […]
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has denounced Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, describing that country’s policies as an affront to human rights and comparable to racial segregation in the American South. Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American to serve in […]
Former Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, a possible kingmaker in September’s elections, renewed his incitement against Palestinian citizens on Monday, as reported by the Times of Israel. Speaking at a campaign trail meeting in Kiryat Ono, […]
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 […]
Is Justin Trudeau a racist? He and his government certainly accept and promote anti-Palestinianism. Two recent moves reaffirm his government’s pattern of blaming Palestinians for their dispossession and subjugation. Last week the government released its […]
Far-right Israeli political party Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) has launched its election campaign by calling for the expulsion of Palestinians to their “countries of origin”. Otzma Yehudit launched its campaign in Jerusalem yesterday ahead of […]
Former Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads the New Right party, slammed the Israeli government’s approach to the Gaza Strip yesterday, reported Arutz Sheva, demanding that the military targets Palestinians launching incendiary balloons from the territory. […]
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” […]
The US “war on terror” was labeled racist and discriminatory for its failure to address the growing threat of white supremacy during a hearing in which Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib broke down in tears. The hearing, […]
Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, chairman of the Prisoners Affairs Commission, has condemned the repeated crimes committed by Israel against Palestinian prisoners, which he says have taken “a very dangerous and unprecedented detour” designed to quash their patriotism […]
The resolution passed by the German parliament that falsely defined the entire Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-semitic and restricted public space and support for anybody connected to it, has drawn immense ire. […]
A Palestinian family has denounced a plea deal to clear a Jewish settler from murder charges in a 2015 arson attack in which a Palestinian baby and his parents were burned alive in the occupied West […]
Two Israelis were sentenced to just one year in prison yesterday for a series of racially-motivated assaults against Palestinian citizens, reported Haaretz. The pair, named as Koren Elkayam, 22, and Tamir Bartal, 20, from Beersheva, […]
Three Israeli hospitals have admitted for the first time that they segregate Jewish and Arab women giving birth, at the women’s request. In response to a lawsuit filed against four hospitals, three of them – Hadassah […]
The Palestinian struggle for human rights and liberation is part of a global fight against racist structures. The contemporary inclusive protest, such as the movement Black Lives Matter, or the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) action […]
Right-wing activists are pressuring a teen suspected of involvement the Dawabsheh family’s 2015 murder not to sign a plea deal offered by Israel’s State Prosecutor’s Office. Last week it emerged that Israel’s State Prosecutor’s Office was in […]
(The End of the Myth – From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. Greg Grandin. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2019) Much of current political news swirls […]
What should we make of a media outlet that praises those who join or give money to a foreign army, which occupies territory belonging to another people, terrorizes the local population by destroying houses, restricting […]
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 […]
Arab MK and Chairman of the Arab-majority Balad party Jamal Zahalka yesterday filed a complaint against Jewish MK from the Likud party Oren Hazan for incitement to murder, Haaretz reported. As part of his electoral campaign, Hazan […]
Israel‘s Supreme Court has banned the leader of a far-right ultranationalist party from running in next month’s elections. Reversing the decisions of Israel’s elections committee earlier this month, the court ruled on Sunday to bar […]
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