Palestine
-
Narratives Under Siege (5): There’s Something in the Water: The Poisoning of Life in the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is pleased to announce the resumption of the Narratives Under Siege series, which aims to provide a human voice to the suffering caused by the illegal Israeli-imposed closure, applied continuously since 14 June 2007 and in various forms for over a decade. The Narratives series provides a glimpse… Continue reading
-
FAIR: Does the NY Times Factcheck Op-Eds?
On August 2, the New York Times published an op-ed arguing that Arabs do not care much about Palestinians–and that this is a good thing, especially for Palestinians. But the argument relied on a “poll” of the Arab world that does not exist. Continue reading
-
If I needed something to confirm I am going in the right direction: an interview with Yonatan Shapira By Jesse Bacon
[Yonatan-Shapira] I interviewed about Yonatan Shapira of Boycott from Within and Combatants for Peace after he was called in for an interrogation by the Israeli Security Services. Continue reading
-
Live Video of Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev
Around 300 Bedouins living in Israel’s Negev desert are homeless after Israeli police raided their village & razed their homes. Continue reading
-
Gilad Atzmon: Israel Cannot Handle Its Past
Israel cannot handle its past. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu decided this week to extend from 50 to 70 years the time state archives remain classified. Israel realizes that it has too much to hide. Continue reading
-
Teddy Katz: Israel Cannot Handle Its Past
You may learn also about freedom of speech and freedom of expression in the so-called ‘only democracy’ in the Middle East. Continue reading
-
“American Radical” Norman Finkelstein: Israel losing PR campaign
US author, academic and outspoken Palestinian supporter, Norman Finkelstein accuses the US of coddling Israel and is lobbying to speak at the United Nations to promote progress for a Middle-East Peace Process. Continue reading
-
Beware of Jewish Slappers
Last week the married father of two from east Jerusalem was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the ‘rape by deception’ of a Jewish woman who claimed she would not have had sex with him had she known he was an Arab. What might have been a tawdry episode – casting neither Kushour nor… Continue reading
-
UN Promises Delivery of Freedom Flotilla Cargo to Gaza
Six weeks after the Freedom Flotilla ships were forcibly boarded in international waters, their passengers illegally jailed and the cargo impounded by the Israeli authorities, the office of the United Nations Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East (UNSCO) has promised to deliver the full humanitarian aid cargo to UN. agencies in Gaza. Continue reading
-
Palestine: Another Well and Another Goat
Here is the unlikely battlefield. You have a mountain slope, baked dry, thousands of sun-bleached rocks, millions of thorns. It issues into an even drier wadi, on the other side of which another slope of rocks and thorns rises up only to descend into the next wadi, and so it goes from ridge to ridge… Continue reading
-
Register now for Viva Palestina 5 – a global lifeline to Gaza
Registration for the new convoy, Viva Palestina 5 – a Global Lifeline to Gaza, is now live. The VP team has put a lot of work into reviewing everyone’s feedback from the previous three successful convoys, and from the Freedom Flotilla, in order to make this next convoy even more effective. Continue reading
-
Register now for Viva Palestina 5 – a global lifeline to Gaza
Registration for the new convoy, Viva Palestina 5 – a Global Lifeline to Gaza, is now live. The VP team has put a lot of work into reviewing everyone’s feedback from the previous three successful convoys, and from the Freedom Flotilla, in order to make this next convoy even more effective. Continue reading
-
ISRAEL AND ECONOMIC “WARFARE”
On Wednesday, July 14th, the Israeli Parliament approved the first of three readings of a new law. If passed, the law will make it illegal to declare a boycott on Israel or Israeli companies, participate in a boycott, or provide aid in the form of information to anyone who is part of the Boycott, Divestment… Continue reading
-
Sex with Jewish girl costs Arab man 18 months in Israeli jail
In Israel, an Arab man has been sentenced to 18 months for ‘rape by deception’. Sabbar Kashur tricked a woman into having sex with him, by claiming to be Jewish. He plans to appeal the decision. And as RT’s Paula Slier reports, even couples who choose to have interfaith relationships face hostility Continue reading
-
Rebuilding a Demolished Palestinian Home By Ellen Davidson
Rubble covers the tile floor at the site of the demolished home we are beginning to rebuild in the East Jerusalem section of Anata, a Palestinian town divided between occupied “East” Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Activists from the United States, Britain, Germany, and Iran, reinforced daily by local Palestinian and Israeli activists, have… Continue reading
-
“Israel is regional bully with nuclear weapons” – Jonathan Cook
‘The reason why Israel can’t allow Iran to have nuclear weapons is because if Iran developed its own nuclear arsenal, it would totally change the balance of power in the Middle East,’ he says. ‘At the moment Israel is the regional bully, it has its own nuclear weapons, it can pull them out as it… Continue reading
-
A Freedom Charter or A Second Nakba? By Kenneth O’Keefe
Imagine this, imagine that Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress negotiated a deal with the South African Apartheid regime and settled for a ‘two-state solution.’ Imagine Mandela negotiating with the Apartheid regime a land deal in which less than 15% of current day South Africa went to the black South Africans, the remaining 85%… Continue reading
-
Israel Report Attempts to Cover up Widespread and Systematic Commission of War Crimes and Shield Perpetrators from Justice
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) asserts that Israel has wholly failed to fulfil its obligation to conduct genuine investigations; the State’s efforts to date represent an attempt to shield the perpetrators from justice. Moreover PCHR has identified a number of inconsistencies in Israel’s reported findings. The following cases are illustrative of the ineffectiveness… Continue reading
-
Defend the Rights of Palestinian Citizens in Israel
The meeting will be a unique opportunity to hear about the serious attacks on the democratic rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, following the decision last week to remove parliamentary privileges of Haneen Zoubi for her participation in the flotilla taking humanitarian aid to Gaza. Continue reading
-
Spades, Human Rights and Undemocratizing Israel
Boaz Okon, former Israeli judge and current legal affairs editor for the right-leaning and largest Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, has called a spade a spade using both the forbidden words; apartheid and fascism. In his article, “Draw Me a Monster,” translated into English by the Coteret website, he described a long and still-growing list of… Continue reading
