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Jewish Settlers Set Palestinian Vehicles on Fire near Jerusalem (VIDEO)
Jewish settlers Wednesday overnight set three Palestinian-owned vehicles on fire near the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources said that a group of Jewish settlers […]
Historic HRW Report: Israel Committing ‘Crime of Apartheid’ against Palestinians (FULL REPORT)
Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Israel is committing the crime of “apartheid” by seeking to maintain Jewish “domination” over Palestinians and its own Arab population, an explosive allegation fiercely denounced by Israel. Currently under […]
Was Justice really Served? Lessons Learned from the Chauvin Trial that Relate to Palestine, Turtle Island
By Benay Blend 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 […]
Over 100 Palestinians Injured after Israeli Extremists March through Jerusalem (VIDEOS)
Over 100 Palestinians were injured and 50 others were detained in nightly violent clashes with Israeli police and Jewish settlers amid simmering tensions surrounding the holy month of Ramadan in the occupied city of East […]
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. Mark Charles, and Soon-Chan Rah. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois. 2019.) The Doctrine of Discovery, created in a series of Papal […]
Palestinians in Chicago Defeat Extremist Pro-Israel Candidate in Local Elections
The Palestinian community in Chicago, Illinois, succeeded in defeating extremist right-wing and pro-Israel candidate, Sharon Brannigan, in the local election, news agencies reported yesterday. According to news agencies, the Palestinian community mobilized other Arab communities […]
Israeli MK Threatens to Expel Muslims Who Do Not Recognize Israel as Land of Jews
Leader of the far-right Religious Zionist party MK Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to expel an Arab MK and other Muslims who do not accept the rule of Jews in Israel. Earlier in the day, […]
VIDEO: Prominent Rabbi Assaulted by Jewish Settlers as He Defends Palestinians
The former president of Rabbis for Human Rights was violently assaulted by far-right Jewish settlers yesterday. Video footage of the brutal attack near the Maale Ahuvia illegal settlement outpost, shows prominent Rabbi Arik Ascherman being […]
‘Jerusalem Declaration’ Insists BDS is Not Anti-Semitic, in Disagreement with IHRA Definition
In the latest opposition to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, favored by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, a group of over 200 academics and experts have created a […]
Jewish Extremists Vandalize Palestinian-owned Vehicles in Arab Town in Israel
Israeli Jewish extremist members of the anti-Arab Price Tag terror group today vandalized Palestinian-owned vehicles and scrawled hate graffiti on them in the Arab town of Kufr Qassem in central Israel. The Arab 48 news […]
Black Radical Politics, Palestine and Zionism: An Online Event with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi
By Benay Blend On March 25, 2021, at 10 AM MDT, the Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies will present an online Facebook event entitled Black Radical Politics, Palestine and Zionism with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, […]
Like the Diana Story, Meghan’s Fight with the Royals Will Ensure Nothing Really Changes
By Jonathan Cook Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Meghan and Harry is a perfect case study of how an important political debate about the corrupting role of the monarchy on British life gets shunted aside yet […]
Pro-Israeli Money with Strings Attached: B’nai B’rith’s Unfounded Accusations
By Yves Engler B’nai B’rith is at it again. The racist group is smearing a pro-Palestinian voice for pointing out a simple truth about Canadian life. Last week the anti-Palestinian organization released a statement headlined […]
Report: Anti-Palestinian Racism and Incitement in Israeli Social Media Increased by 16% in 2020
A social media monitoring group said today that anti-Palestinian racism and incitement by Israelis on social media has increased by 16 percent in 2020 compared to 2019. “7amleh – The Arab Center for Social Media […]
86% of Asylum Seekers in Israel Suffer Food Insecurity
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed asylum seekers in south Tel Aviv into “genuine hunger,” an official survey found, as experts said there is a “severe humanitarian crisis”. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday, […]
Israeli Mob Attacks Palestinian Journalists in Mea Shearim Neighborhood
An Israeli mob today attacked Palestinian journalists working for the Turkish Anadolu news agency while doing a report in an all-Israeli West Jerusalem neighborhood. The mob attacked the two journalists, Mustafa Kharouf and Fayez Abu […]
Catholic Churches Condemn Repeated Settler Attacks on Romanian Monastery in Jerusalem (VIDEO)
The Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land (ACOHL) condemned repeated Jewish settler attacks against the Romanian church monastery in Jerusalem. In the last of the series of incidents, a group of Jewish settlers […]
Israeli Apartheid Week 2021: Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition
By Benay Blend “Make no mistake,” wrote Nerdeen Kiswani, “it is because of white supremacy that Black people are all too familiar with, that they recognize and even are affected by Zionist white supremacy as […]
Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma
By Ramzy Baroud What is taking place in Burma right now is a military coup. There can be no other description for such an unwarranted action as the dismissal of the government by military […]
‘The Jewish Half’: SNL’s Dig at Israeli Apartheid Angers Many (VIDEO)
By Palestine Chronicle Staff In a 12-second video clip, American comedian Michael Che of Saturday Night Live crossed a line that mainstream US media rarely cross. Although many news and entertainment pundits have been […]
‘Facebook, We Have to Talk’: On Distinguishing Anti-Semitism from Anti-Zionism in Public Spaces
By Benay Blend In January 2021, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) announced a global campaign “Facebook, we need to talk” about the social media giant’s inquiry into whether criticism of the movement Zionism “falls within […]
New Poll: Nearly Half of Israel’s Religious Youths Hate Palestinians, Support Expulsion
Nearly half of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox and nationalist religious youth expressed hatred toward Palestinian citizens of Israel and support stripping them of their citizenship, according to a poll released this week. The poll from the Hebrew […]
Re-Marketing ‘Racist-Zionism’ and Manufacturing Double White Privilege-Plus
By Gavin Lewis Zionist Colonialism Vs The Post-War Consensus. At just over the 52nd minute of the 1967 film thriller Funeral in Berlin’, a female character who’d been seducing British agent Harry Palmer (played by […]
American Empire: A Global History – Book Review
By Jim Miles (American Empire: A Global History. A. G. Hopkins. Princeton University Press. Princeton & Oxford, 2018.) Most recent works on the United States accept that it is an empire, perhaps not in the […]
Zionists’ Efforts to Coopt the BLM Movement: Can Racists Be Anti-Racist?
By Benay Blend On February 6, 2021, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza announced that she was pulling out of a World Values Network online gala with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a prominent American Zionist. “They […]
The IHRA Antisemitism Definition and Racism
By Jim Miles On Thursday, February 11, the Foundation for Middle East Peace held a webinar concerning the IHRA definition and ‘examples’ of antisemitism. The participants were all progressive Jews from the United States and […]
‘Freedom is Never Voluntarily Given’: Palestinian Boycott of Israel is Not Racist, It is Anti-Racist
By Ramzy Baroud Claims made by Democratic New York City mayoral candidate, Andrew Yang, in a recent op-ed in the Jewish weekly, ‘The Forward’, point to the prevailing ignorance that continues to dominate the […]
US Democratic Politicians Slam Israel for Preventing Palestinians Access to Vaccine
Democrat politicians in the US have slammed Israel for preventing Palestinians from accessing the coronavirus vaccine. In an Instagram post by the Institution of Middle East Understanding (IMEU), politicians criticized Israel for its lack of […]
Canada: B’nai B’rith Smears Leading Palestine Solidarity Activist
By Yves Engler Recently Israel’s largest human rights organization concluded the country was run based on a “regime of Jewish supremacy”. B’Tselem wasn’t only referring to the occupied West Bank but an “apartheid” system in place […]
Report: Jewish Settlers Threaten to Kill Palestinian Bus Drivers in West Bank
Jewish settlers have called for the murder of Palestinian bus drivers in the occupied West Bank, the Times of Israel has reported. Racist graffiti reading “Kill Arab drivers” was sprayed in Modi’in Illit, the largest […]