By Susan de Muth (Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben White, Pluto Press, 144 pages.) “Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide” by Ben White is a new, updated and expanded edition of his hard-hitting study of how Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians resembles the now-extinct South African apartheid system. White’s premise is simple: if Israel is, […]...
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth For the first time since the US launched the Middle East peace talks last summer, the Palestinian leadership may be sensing it has a tiny bit of leverage. Barack Obama met the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Washington last week in what Palestinian officials called a “candid and difficult” meeting. […]...
By Samah Jabr – Jerusalem, Palestine The chronic tyranny brought by the Israeli occupation has had a devastating effect on the wellbeing of the Palestinian community. But one of the worst effects is the internalization of oppression and the undermining of Palestinian’s collective self-concept. I have observed that since the 2006 elections in Palestine—which were […]...
Gaza’s Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has warned Israel it would pay a “very high price” if it heeded its foreign minister’s call to reoccupy the besieged enclave to try to halt rocket attacks. Speaking on Sunday to tens of thousands of supporters at a public rally marking 10 years since an Israeli air strike killed […]...
Why is SodaScream problematic? SodaScream has a factory in the Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, Palestine. There are over 150 Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with more than 500,000 Israeli civilians living in them. Settlements are illegal under international law. According to both the United Nations and the European Union, […]...
At least three Palestinians have been killed and 14 others injured in an Israeli raid in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials and medics said, with some of the wounded in critical condition. The son of a former Hamas official was among the dead on Saturday, Al Jazeera has learned. Palestinian […]...
By William James Martin In December, less than a month after the American Studies Association adopted a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions because of what the ASA described as Israel’s persistent violations of the human right of the Palestinian people, its severe restrictions on the academic freedom afforded to the Palestinian people, and, in […]...
Upon returning to the West Bank Thursday after his latest visit to Washington, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas assured crowds he was holding fast to Palestinian ideals. “It is impossible for the Palestinian leadership to abandon inalienable rights,” Abbas told thousands gathered near his office in Ramallah. “We traveled and came back still holding fast […]...
A right-wing Israeli politician who called for Israel to take over the Haram al-Sharif in occupied East Jerusalem has visited the holy compound, causing a backlash from stone-throwing Palestinians protesting against the visit. Moshe Feiglin, a nationalist member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, visited the compound on Thursday, after calling on the Israeli […]...
Israel has progressed with plans for more than 2,000 new homes in six Jewish settlements across the West Bank an official said Thursday, in a move likely to further endanger peace talks. Guy Inbar, a spokesman for the defense ministry unit responsible for civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories, said a ministry committee had furthered […]...
By Vacy Vlazna In popular idiom, doppelgänger hails from the German, meaning “look-alike” in behaviour or physical appearance. The frontline of Palestinian non-violent resistance in the West Bank of the State of Palestine, is not in Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the PLO and the Palestinian National Council (PNC), but in the […]...
By Nicola Nasser Writing in The Washington Post on February 27, 2011, Rachel Bronson asked: “Could the next Mideast uprising happen in Saudi Arabia?” Her answer was: “The notion of a revolution in the Saudi kingdom seems unthinkable.” However, On September 30 the next year, the senior foreign policy fellow at the Saban Center for […]...
By Jamal Kanj Following serious cajoling by the US, the European Union and arm twisting by Arab governments, the Palestinians entered what was to be nine months of negotiations with Israel. The Palestinians, who had forgone demands for Israel’s compliance with previous signed agreements before starting new negotiations, were promised that this time Israel would […]...
A top member of Fatah on Tuesday denied reports by Israeli media that he said the Palestinian Authority would consider recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Central Committee member Nabil Shaath was quoted by official radio as saying that “the Palestinian leadership would consider recognizing Israel as a Jewish state after negotiations come to […]...
Hamas on Tuesday sharply criticized Egypt’s closure of the Rafah border crossing, saying Cairo’s tightening of restrictions on the Palestinian territory was a “crime against humanity.” “The Egyptian authorities’ insistence on closing the Rafah crossing and tightening the Gaza blockade… is a crime against humanity by all standards and a crime against the Palestinian...
By Ramzy Baroud Long before the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take center stage, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction, for years. “Britain should offer its support for this strategy by stopping all arms sales to Israel, introducing […]...
By Ahmed Meiloud More than eight months have passed since the eventful coup in Egypt, which toppled the elected president Mohammad Morsi after a one year in office. The coup shattered the enthusiasm (which had accompanied the Arab Spring two years earlier) for a future democratic Arab world. This enthusiasm was particularly at its high […]...
US President Barack Obama has urged his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas to make tough decisions and take risks for peace with Israel, ahead of a 29 April deadline for US-brokered negotiations. “We remain convinced there is an opportunity,” Obama told reporters as Abbas sat beside him in the Oval Office. Obama met Israeli Prime Minister […]...
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails decided to go on hunger strike for one day Tuesday in a “protesting the ongoing aggressive attack against them,” the ministry of prisoners’ affairs announced. In a statement Monday, the ministry highlighted that prisoners “are adamant to go on with struggle to obtain their rights by force.” The statement added […]...
By Uri Avnery Something very important happened this week in the most unlikely of places: the Knesset. On the agenda were three laws, one worse than the other. One was about “governance”. Its main provision raises the “electoral threshold” – i.e. the minimum an election list needs to enter the Knesset – from 2% to […]...