Palestine
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Watch: Gaza Fights Back: Israel Bombs AP Press Tower
🔥This is the story of the al-Jalaa tower, home to Gaza’s AP, Al-Jazeera & other media offices. Israel’s targeting and bombing of this civilian high-rise in May 2021 is a blatant war crime, one of several documented in our new feature film Gaza Fights Back. No justice has been served. Continue reading
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The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating between the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim
We regret we failed to protect you. This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on July 14, urging the Israeli government to release Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Manasra. Only 14 years old at the time of his arrest and torture by Israeli forces, Manasra is now 20 years old. His case is a representation… Continue reading
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Gaza Fights Back | Official Trailer | MintPress News
Gaza Fights Back tells the story of Israel’s 2021 11-day war on Gaza, the human toll, and how Gaza’s armed resistance groups outmaneuvered the vastly more powerful Israeli military. Continue reading
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As US Refuses to Act, Suspected Alex Odeh Assassins Enjoy Influential Role in Israeli Politics
Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was murdered outside his California office in October 1985. For decades, law enforcement officials have openly speculated that the perpetrators were members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) – a terrorist group led at the time by the notorious militant Irv Rubin. It is widely alleged that three individuals – Robert… Continue reading
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Nuclear terrorist, Genocidally Racist and International Law-violating Apartheid Israel among World Leaders for Killing Kids
Apartheid Israel in its illegal, war criminal and 55-year occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory is among world leaders in “children killed per year per million of total territory population” with a value of 25.8 as compared to 75.7 (Honduras), 53.6 (Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo), 7.6 (the World), and 2.6 (Kashmir, India). Continue reading
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If the media can probe Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, why not the murder of other Palestinians?
An Israeli sniper shot the Al-Jazeera journalist, according to four US news organisations. But the only investigation the Biden administration will heed is an Israeli one Continue reading
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Israel calls the Nakba a lie. So why do its leaders threaten a second one?
Ex-government minister’s recent warning to Palestinian flag-wavers of another forced expulsion exposes the lie at the heart of Israel’s founding Continue reading
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The Assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh: Who Gave the Order?
JENIN, OCCUPIED PALESTINE – Israel’s announcement that it will not pursue an investigation into the killing of famed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was not surprising. The specific reasons it gave to justify the decision make little difference. However, one thing is certain: It is highly unlikely that the killing of a journalist like Shireen Abu Akleh… Continue reading
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Keir Starmer has returned western imperialism to the core of Labour policy
The local authority election results earlier this month in the UK were as bleak as expected for Boris Johnson’s government, with the electorate ready to punish the ruling party both for its glaring corruption and rocketing high-street prices. Continue reading
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Will Shireen Abu Akleh’s Murder Mark a Turning Point in the Liberation of Palestine?
This particular targeted killing of a journalist – not the first and sadly, probably not the last – touched us all. And the response of the Zionist establishment in occupied Jerusalem, as well as in Washington, is cold and full of excuses. Continue reading
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Israel’s PR Problem, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Israel’s mounting PR crisis boils down to the fact that its violence and oppression isn’t happening in some far off land as in the case with US wars, it’s happening right at home surrounded by video cameras and enforced by police and soldiers who are not adept PR spinmeisters. Continue reading
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Shireen Abu Akleh was executed to send a message to Palestinians
During 20 years of reporting on Israel and Palestine, I learned first-hand that Israel’s version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted Continue reading
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Salah Hammouri sues NSO Group
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group faces a number of lawsuits from tech giants and others targeted with its malware. Salah Hammouri, an acclaimed Palestinian-French human rights defender, and two human rights groups have filed a criminal complaint against the notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. Continue reading
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Israel is stoking a civil war against its Palestinian citizens
Three separate, deadly Palestinian attacks in Israeli cities in a week have elicited a predictable response. The Israeli army has drafted large numbers of extra soldiers into the West Bank and around Gaza, Palestinian territories already under decades of brutal military occupation. Continue reading
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Interrogating the Amnesty International Apartheid Report
The following interview conducted by Daniel Falcone appeared in COUNTERPUNCH in February 11, 2022. Small modifications have been made. While the Report significantly strengthened the civill society consensus to the effect that Israel is guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid, it has not [had an] overt impact in governmental policy circles in the West nor… Continue reading
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Will Scathing Amnesty Apartheid Report Lead to Change in Israel’s Criminal Practices?
Friday, 11 February 2022 — MintPress News The reality that the Amnesty report has brought forward opens doors to a much more aggressive anti-apartheid campaign than we have seen so far. by Miko Peled LONDON – The Amnesty International report about Israel’s apartheid system states that, since its founding in 1948, Israel has in fact constituted a “cruel system… Continue reading
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Amnesty apartheid report: The walls protecting Israel are finally crumbling
The walls protecting Israel are quickly crumbling. A year ago, it was Israel’s most celebrated human rights group, B’Tselem. Months later, it was the New York-based Human Rights Watch, whose senior staff have often enjoyed a revolving door with the US State Department. Continue reading
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Shutting Down Israel’s Death Machine in Britain, with Three Activists Who Were There
On January 13, campaigners announced that, after years of popular pressure and direct action, Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems had decided to bite the bullet and sell its factory located in Oldham in the northwest of England. Continue reading
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Israel is Tightening Its Grip on Syria’s Golan Heights by Creating “Facts on the Ground”
In the occupied Golan Heights, the population of Settlers and Syrians is approximately equal, but experts fear that a new Israeli project will turn Syrians into a demographic minority on their own land. Continue reading
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Is Israel’s Operation Persia Underway?
The successive Israeli military offensives against Gaza and the West Bank have always been protected by the “vortex of silence” of the main world mass media controlled by the transnational Israeli lobby, a theory formulated by the German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann in her book “The Vortex of Silence. Public Opinion: Our Social Skin” (1977).… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 