Palestine
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: WHEN FACTS AND PROPAGANDA COLLIDE – THE BBC BENDS OVER BACKWARDS TO ACCOMMODATE ISRAELI CLAIMS
When a Thai kibbutz worker was killed in Israel by a rocket launched from Gaza last week, BBC News online gave the incident headline coverage flagged up on its home page. By contrast, the killing of two Palestinian teenagers, Mohammad Qadus and Osaid Qadus, by Israeli soldiers on Saturday was buried at the end of… Continue reading
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Disturbing findings of toxic uranium levels in Gaza
Studies conducted by a group of Italian researchers have revealed the presence of dangerous levels of toxins in the bodies of Palestinian victims of Israeli bombings during operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009. The results of tests conducted on a sample of 15 dead and wounded victims of the war on Gaza, in addition to another… Continue reading
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Notes on Israel’s Triumph to Disaster By Bashir Abu-Manneh
Who will stop Israel in its relentless expropriation of Palestine and from triumphing to disaster? Isaac Deutscher, from whom I borrow my title, believed that the occupation of 1967 would have catastrophic consequences for Israel. It wouldn’t end well, he feared. Continue reading
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Join War on Want’s Supermarket Action on Tuesday 30 March!
High street supermarkets are profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestine by selling produce from Israeli settlements. Under international law, Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal. By selling settlement produce, supermarkets are complicit in their illegal activity and profiting from Palestinian suffering. Continue reading
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Tariq Shadid – Going it alone: a Third Intifada?
It may well be that the citizens of the world, tired of hearing newscasts about Israel and the Palestinians, are not in the mood to hear it. Still, pressure in Palestine is building up quickly due to Israel’s continuing defiance of calls from around the world to halt settlement building in East Jerusalem and the… Continue reading
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The Biden vs. Netanyahu Flap by John Spritzler
The recent flap between America’s Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over Israel’s building 1600 new Jews-only housing units in East Jerusalem is, at its root, a disagreement about whether or not Israel should take the “new path” advocated by Israel’s previous Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert. Continue reading
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Israel’s new strategic arm: Cyberwarfare
Amid swelling tension across the Middle East, Israel is preparing for a new kind of conflict: cyberwarfare. Amid swelling tension across the Middle East, Israel is preparing for a new kind of conflict: cyberwarfare. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Update on the arrest of Huwaida Arraf: Thanks everyone – I’m OK
I was arrested on Friday at around noon as I tried to get the Israeli soldiers to stop shooting at people in Nabi Saleh (a small village of about 400 people), especially after ISM volunteer Ellen Stark was shot in the arm. Continue reading
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Undercover police in Jerusalem protests
Riots took place all over East Jerusalem this week in protest of settlers threatening to force their way into the Al Aqsa Mosque. As a result, Israeli security forces shut down major areas of the Old City, including the mosque compound to Muslim men under 50. The Real News’ Lia Tarachansky spoke to Toufic Haddad,… Continue reading
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The True Meaning of Never Again – For Anyone
Camden New Journal article letters arising out of the House of Commons meeting of the Never Again – For Anyone tour on Holocaust Memorial Day. Continue reading
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Is Israel an Apartheid State?
The Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, in its efforts to eliminate and prevent the kind of suffering the South African and Namibian people suffered under apartheid, commissioned a legal study of the Israel-Palestine situation. “The aim of this project was to scrutinize the situation from the nonpartisan perspective of international law, rather than… Continue reading
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I will mourn on Nakba Day By Nurit Peled-Elhanan
The “Nakba law” passed in a first reading last Tuesday. The law forbids mourning the Nakba on Israel’s Independence Day. Breaking the law will result in high fines and withdrawal of gevernmental financing from municipal authorities. Continue reading
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Israeli Raids Target Children By Nora Barrows-Friedman
Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied eastern part of the city. Nearly 40 Palestinians were wounded and treated at nearby hospitals, as… Continue reading
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URGENT ACTION ALERT: No reward for war crimes – No upgrade for Israel in the EU
One of Europe’s decision making body, the Council of the EU, will be discussing upgrading the EU-Israel association agreement next Tuesday 23rd March 2010. The agreement had been due for an upgrade in December 2008, but was suspended following Israel’s massacre in Gaza. Continue reading
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Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) welcomes landmark EU court ruling, calls for intensifying grassroots BDS
According to the Fourth Geneva Convention, all Israeli colonies are illegal and constitute war crimes. The BNC calls on all 27 member states of the European Union to implement the court’s findings in full and without delay, as a first step towards a full ban on Israeli colonies’ products. We also urge the citizens and… Continue reading
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Russell Tribunal on Palestine-What’s next?
The Barcelona session focused on EU obligations and failings. The London session will focus on corporations profiting from the occupation but also on labour rights in Palestine-Israel and the role third party States play in letting those violations take place. Continue reading
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The Decline of Israel: Interview with Jonathan Cook
In a wide-ranging interview with the New Left Project, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook describes the increasingly repressive nature of Israeli society and the prospects for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict Continue reading
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Israeli assassination procedure
Targeted Killing is a procedure that allows the IDF to kill suspects in Terror without trial if the IDF has reasons to believe the killing will prevent future terror attacks and that an arrest it not possible. Continue reading
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Sending a laptop to Gaza Ahmed Moor writing from al-Arish, Egypt
A friend in Cairo mentioned that he had a laptop and some CDs that were intended for a friend of his in Palestinian Rafah. He knew that I planned to go to al-Arish, and if I could make it past the checkpoints, to Egyptian Rafah, and asked if I could arrange to have the items… Continue reading
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Video: Settlers pouring cement into spring
A group of Israeli settlers destroy a spring by the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit district of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian villagers were forced to watch helplessly as settlers poured sand and cement into the spring, guarded by five armed members of the Israeli military. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 