Jerusalem
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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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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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Descendants File Protest with United Nations over Israeli Plans to Build on 12th Century Muslim Cemetery
A Centuries old Muslim Cemetery in Jerusalem has been confiscated by Israel and given to the Los Angeles Simon Wiesenthal Center to build, believe it or not, MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 28 February, 2010: Police: Hamas leader’s killers drugged him
One of the best aggregations of news and analysis on the situation in Palestine. Frequency: almost daily. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 February, 2010: New Excavations Under the Walls Of Jerusalem’s Old City
18 February, 2010 News International Middle East Media Center Nine German Physicians Arrive In the West Bank To Perform Sensitive Surgeries IMEMC – Friday February 19, 2010 – 00:42, Palestinian sources reported Thursday that nine physicians, including a professor in medicine, arrived in the central West Bank city of Ramallah to perform sensitive surgeries. Nablus Continue reading
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The Destruction of an Ancient Muslim Cemetery in Jerusalem
The Israeli government and the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) are in the process of building a so-called “Center for Human Dignity-Museum of Tolerance” on the site of Mamilla Cemetery. The museum’s construction has already resulted in the disinterment of hundreds of graves and the whereabouts of countless human remains are unknown. The desecration of the… Continue reading
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Armageddon, Straight Ahead By Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman
It is 1:30 am, and I just came back from Sheikh Jarakh –I see Jerusalem in flames, and know than my words will not succeed in conveying the horror of what I saw or the dread in my heart. Today the court ruled in favor of the settlers who had taken over part of yet… Continue reading
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Palestine: Silwan, The very eye of the storm By Akiva Eldar
According to the so-called Clinton initiative, presented during the 2000 Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Silwan was supposed to become part of the future Palestinian capital. Continue reading
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Jerusalem Diaries: Umm Kamel al-Kurd Returns Home
When Umm Kamel was evicted from her home in Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem) on 9 November, where she had been living with her family since 1956, it was the second time in her life she was forced by the state of Israel to leave her home. The first time was in 1948, when she and her… Continue reading
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Israeli Terrorist Settler Shooting Palestinians in Hebron
Footage filmed by Jamal Abu-Sa’ifan, a Palestinian resident of Hebron, documenting a terrorist Israeli settler shooting two members of his family. The event occurs following the eviction settlers from a Palestinian house they occupied in Hebron. Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se’ifan family, and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his handgun at Continue reading
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Jonathan Cook: Mamilla Cemetery – A Travesty Of Tolerance On Display
The Israeli Supreme Court’s approval last week of the building of a Jewish Museum of Tolerance over an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem is the latest in a series of legal and physical assaults on Islamic holy places since Israel’s founding in 1948. Continue reading
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Kawther Salam – Jewish Terrorist attacks Church of the Holy Sepulcher
In the night of Wednesday, October 29, an extremist orthodox Jew – chosen by God, invaded the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the old city of Jerusalem. The Jewish terrorist tried to harm three monks who were worshiping God in the church. The monks saw the terrorist Jew and escaped from his attack, but Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: Bypassing Bethlehem’s Eastern Reaches by Nate Wright
In late August, Israel completed refurbishment of the road dipping down from the Jerusalem-area settlement of Har Homa to the bloc of smaller settlements southeast of Bethlehem. The new bypass, meant to speed up the commutes of settlers to their jobs and schools in Israel, has opened another front in the battle over the extent… Continue reading
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Fulbright or McCarthy for Palestinian students? By Fidaa Abed, 17 August 2008
“Last week, I landed in Washington, DC, brimming with optimism. Upon arrival, I was whisked into a separate room. An American official informed me that he had just received information about me that he could not reveal. However, it required him to put me on the next plane home. I was shocked. And I was… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 