Palestine
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 15-16 May 2021
16 May 2021 • 23:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back “Anti-Zionist Naples”: Award-Winning Italian Artist Speaks about Palestine and Why He Quit Photojournalism https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/anti-zionist-naples-award-winning-italian-artist-speaks-about-palestine-and-why-he-quit-photojournalism/ Roger Waters On Israel’s Crimes And Palestine’s Resistance https://popularresistance.org/roger-waters-on-israels-crimes-and-palestines-resistance/ Continue reading
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The unending nightmare of Gaza
The bombs rain down on Gaza city and the rest of the strip compounding the nightmare that Gaza is already for the people living there. Gaza, measuring 375 square kilometers (145 square miles) is home to around 2 million Palestinians, more than half of them refugees. Since 2007, the besieged enclave has been under a… Continue reading
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15 May 2021 – Nakba Day: Israel Punishes Media For Reporting Its Escalation In Palestine
Today is Nakba day which commemorates the violent expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their homes which began 74 years ago and is still continuing. Just yesterday Fares Akram. Associated Press reporter in Gaza, wrote in a diary about his families expulsion and his life under colonist bombing: GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) —… Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 14-15 May 2021
15 May 2021 • 18:30– The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Israel Punishes Media For Reporting Its Escalation In Palestine https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/05/israel-punishes-media-for-reporting-its-escalation-in-palestine.html Blowing apart a monstrous Israeli lie By Ali Abunimah on May 15, 2021 02:50 am It’s a… Continue reading
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The untold story of Sheikh Jarrah
The obvious story is that of the nightly raids and violence meted out by Israeli police and Jewish extremists against Palestinians in the devastated East Jerusalem neighbourhood. For weeks, thousands of Jewish extremists have targeted Palestinian communities in Jerusalem’s Old City. Their objective is the removal of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh… Continue reading
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Israel is deliberately obliterating media buildings in Gaza to cover up the war crimes that will follow
On Tuesday, Israel bombed the 10-storey Al-Jawhara Tower, causing it to collapse. Before doing so, it had ‘benevolently’ warned that the airstrikes were coming. The following day, it bombed the 14-storey Al-Shorouk Tower, also giving warning it was going to do so. Continue reading
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Palestine/Gaza News Links 13-14 May 2021
14 May 2021 • 20:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Global Resistance: End The Nakba Now! https://popularresistance.org/global-resistance-end-the-nakba-now/ Palestinians in Israel now face far-right mob violence backed by the state https://williambowles.info/2021/05/14/palestinians-in-israel-now-face-far-right-mob-violence-backed-by-the-state/ If I Fall In The Struggle,… Continue reading
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Palestinians in Israel now face far-right mob violence backed by the state
Protests by Palestinian citizens are being greeted with a mix of police violence and vigilante-style attacks from Jewish fascists Continue reading
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This time it’s different
As I write, the building I live in here in Gaza is shaking continuously. Above us, Israeli F-16 warplanes pummel us with a seemingly endless barrage of bombs. I am writing amid a rapid flow of developing events, so it is certain that by the time this is published, many things may have changed, but… Continue reading
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Palestine/Gaza News Links 13 May 2021
13 May 2021 — The New Dark Age Laith Marouf on Palestinian legitimate Resistance to Israeli occupation & to the bombardment of Gaza The Electronic Intifada 13 May 2021 https://williambowles.info/2021/05/13/the-electronic-intifada-13-may-2021/ Continue reading
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The Electronic Intifada 13 May 2021
13 May 2021 — The Electronic Intifada France bans rally, arrests Palestine solidarity leader By Ali Abunimah on May 13, 2021 05:03 am “Dictatorial methods” will not stop French citizens speaking out, group says. Continue reading
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Fifteen Thoughts On Palestine
13 May 2021 — Caitlin Johnson by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to this article: 1 You don’t get to drop an entire colony on top of an inhabited country, grind those inhabitants into the dirt for generations, and then claim self defense every time they retaliate. That’s not a thing. The US-centralized power alliance in general is… Continue reading
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Palestine/Gaza News Links 14 April – 12 May 2021
12 May 2021 18:49 — The New Dark Age Enough is Enough: It is Time for Apartheid to End, by Kenn Orphan I have anxiety in my heart tonight. I have friends in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, Palestinians and Israeli Jews, and I am truly fearing for them. Several of them have reported… Continue reading
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Israel’s Pogroms in Jerusalem Could Spark the Destruction of al-Aqsa
There is every reason to believe the tragic (and seemingly unbelievable) scenario that one of Jerusalem’s holiest sites, and one of the world’s most revered monuments, could soon lay ruined in ashes as Zionist forces smile in satisfaction. Continue reading
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“Deep concern” won’t halt Jerusalem evictions
The state’s authorities said they were investigating the death of Said Yousef Muhammad Odeh, a Palestinian boy who was shot in the back by Israeli soldiers earlier this week. Continue reading
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In Wake of HRW Apartheid Report, Israeli Propagandists Launch Global PR Offensive
Much of the online anger at the Human Rights Watch report was actually manufactured by an Israeli government-sponsored app, Act.IL, which organized supporters of the Jewish state to act in sync to create an artificial groundswell of opposition to it. Continue reading
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Watch: “The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian
In “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power — indeed they are instructed — to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary fashion. Continue reading
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How the IHRA antisemitism definition became a pro-Israel cudgel
New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism. Continue reading