Palestine
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Kim Johnson row: Starmer is oiling Israel’s slide into fascism
What’s become all too clear over the past three years is that Labour leader Keir Starmer tolerates no criticism of Israel whatsoever – even when such criticism accords with international law, the verdict of the human rights community or just plain common sense. Continue reading
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Writing About a Joy That Invades Jenin: The Fifth Newsletter (2023)
Thursday, 2 February 2023 — The Tricontinental Abdel Rahmen al-Mozayen (Palestine), Jenin, 2002. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Israel calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year, 2023, will be the seventy-fifth year after the Nakba, the catastrophe of 1948… Continue reading
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Israeli Settler Violence
Tuesday, 17 January 2023 — MintPress News Since the beginning of 2023, Israeli settlers have already attacked Palestinians and attempted landgrabs 1,290 times according to the Insan Center for Democracy and Rights. 2022 was the most dangerous year for Palestinians in the West Bank in almost two decades and the Zionist settlers are accelerating their… Continue reading
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Is Ben-Gvir preparing a holy war against the Palestinians?
Israel’s new national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, lost no time in demonstrating who is boss. On Tuesday, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was sworn in, the ultra-nationalist politician marched straight in to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem – probably the most incendiary site in the Middle East. Continue reading
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The Price of Betraying Palestine: Morocco Challenges Normalization with Israel
Two years ago, Morocco and Israel signed the US-brokered “Joint Declaration”, thus officially recognizing Israel and instating diplomatic ties. Though other Arab countries had already done the same, the Moroccan official recognition of Apartheid Israel was particularly devastating for Palestinians. Continue reading
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How Netanyahu handed Ben-Gvir the gun to start an annexation war
Jewish Power now has dozens of ways to inflame Palestinians into all-out confrontation. A third intifada has never felt closer Continue reading
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Israel murders Palestinian soccer player Ahmad Daraghmeh
Friday, 23 December 2022 — MintPress News Credit: Carlos Latuff The death of Palestinian soccer player Ahmad Daraghmeh, 23, is a reminder that the ongoing colonial occupation cripples the dreams of young athletes. Daraghmeh is just one of the thousands of young athletes whose potential was taken from the world by Israeli violence. Continue reading
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Kicking aside French protests, Israel expels Salah Hammouri
Israel on Sunday kicked aside protests from France and expelled Salah Hammouri from his homeland. Continue reading
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Canada offers tax ‘charity’ receipts for NGO dispossessing Palestinians
A foreign based “settler colonial NGO” is seeking Canadian government subsidies. This week a representative of Jerusalem-based Regavim will be hosting a series of fundraisers in the Greater Toronto Area. Continue reading
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Deliberate Ambiguity: Israel’s Nukes Are the Greatest Threat to the Middle East
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic western hypocrisy. Continue reading
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Palestine Action puts Israel’s war industry “on trial”
The Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems is effectively being put on trial by the group Palestine Action. By intentionally damaging property that Elbit owns or rents in Britain and getting arrested as a result, Palestine Action’s campaigners have been able to present courts with evidence against the arms maker. Continue reading
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Israeli Drone Sales Are Fueling Military Occupations Around The World
For nearly two decades, Israeli military censors prevented publication of the country’s use of armed drones. In July, the gag order was lifted, allowing Israeli drone warfare to become public knowledge. Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s Fascist Government
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to return to power in Israel. Learn about some of the figures behind his return and what we can expect from his new cabinet. Continue reading
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Kahanist Extremists To Take Power in New Israeli Government
During his previous terms in office, Benjamin Netanyahu oversaw some of the most brutal attacks on Gaza, attacks that caused thousands of civilian casualties. He was also indicted on corruption charges, and yet enough Israelis found him suitable to return to the post of Prime Minister, and he was elected with a comfortable majority. Continue reading
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The burden Western liberals impose only on Palestinians
Since the beginning of Zionist Jewish colonization of their country in the 1880s, Palestinians have faced demands that they carry a double burden: to fight off the Jewish racist colonists while having to defend their colonizers against anti-Jewish European Christian racism. Continue reading
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Peter Beinart Leads Charge to Cancel Palestinian American Journalist Mnar Adley
The latest victim of cancel culture wave is MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Adley. Adley had been booked to host and moderate an event discussing anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) laws in the United States, and how Palestinians are under increasing pressure to silence themselves, when she was herself, ironically, removed from the panel at the… Continue reading
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Fascists in government won’t dent Western support for Israel
The most disturbing outcome of Israel’s general election this week was not the fact that an openly fascist party won the third-biggest tally of seats, or that it is about to become the lynchpin of the next government. It is how little will change, in Israel or abroad, as a result. Continue reading
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In 31 days, at least 32 Palestinians were killed by Israeli Occupation Forces
Monday, 32 October 2022 — MintPress News MintPress will continue to record Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israeli occupation each month. Continue reading
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Sunak, Israel and Infosys: A troubling relationship
Britain’s new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has stated his support for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He has also vowed to legislate against BDS. Continue reading
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The West Bank in Palestine Is Ready to Explode
There is a battle brewing in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. Thousands of Israeli occupation forces will be deployed to face a growing resistance force. The ‘natives are restless’ and the Lions’ Den has mobilized to fight for their freedom and human rights. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 