On June 5th 2013, at the Jerusalem Fund, I had the luck to watch the documentary by David Koff's 1981 film Occupied Palestine. This documentary was one of the best I watched about the colonization of Palestine.
Koff’s documentary offers an...
Further evidence that the injustice of the situation was obvious to people of sensibility a long time ago, and many of us in the west are catching up: in 1968, Italo Calvino, the Italian journalist and novelist, wrote that the Israeli victims of...
On June 11, Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip arrested a Salafist preacher near Gaza City. The Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center (ITMC), a jihadist media unit tied to the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), subsequently denounced the...
New Palestine, Indiana, (population 2,000) is as far removed from the runways of London, Paris, Milan or New York as it is possible to imagine. But it was here, in a house so crowded she carved out a refuge for herself in the cupboard under the...
The leading candidate to replace the late Frank Lautenberg in the Senate from New Jersey is of course Newark Mayor Cory Booker; and as Max Blumenthal reported here the other day, Booker reflects a fervent establishment Zionism.
Well, one of...
Anthony Weiner is running for mayor of New York and despite progressive positions on a number of issues, he is a rightwinger on Palestine, identifying himself with the pro-settler faction of the Israel lobby.
Three years ago at a debate over the...
Another sign that we're winning. This piece in the Wall Street Journal denying that the struggle for equal rights in Palestine has an "analogy" in the civil-rights struggle against Jim Crow doth protest too much. The author, Richard Friedman, a...
Some of our special stories in May focused on the Right’s racist past, the Republican scandal-mongering, Ronald Reagan’s ties to genocide, Barack Obama’s defense of drone attacks, and new tensions in the Middle East. “Pursuing Truth about...
(Photo via Northeastern University SJP Facebook)
Boston’s Northeastern University has come under criticism for imposing sanctions on a student group that briefly protested a talk given by Israeli soldiers on campus.
The Boston Globe’s Yvonne...
Billions to these savages. And the world condemns ....Israel. The sinister training ground located in the Gaza Strip hosts up to 10,000 boys at a time.
Summer camp... Palestinian-style: Chilling images show children as young as six firing guns...
Fatah Central Committee member Jibril Rajoub
The senior Palestinian official who several weeks ago said that if the Palestinians had a nuclear bomb they would have already nuked Israel now says all of Israel is “occupied” territory.
Jibril...
The Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center, a jihadist media unit tied to the Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem (MSC), stated today that Hamas forces had arrested a Salafi preacher in Gaza on June 11. The alleged arrest is said to have taken...
Land, property theft & destruction / Ethnic cleansing / Apartheid / Restriction of movement
Man wounded by Israeli gunfire in the southern Gaza Strip
Gaza (ISM) 11 June by Rosa Schiano -- On the morning of Monday, 10th June, a Palestinian...
It's easy to understand why everyone loves Mohammed Assaf-- his gorgeous smile, honey voice and love for his country, Palestine. But the phenomenon of his popularity tells us as much about Palestinian society as it does about a young man who lives...
We Are Change Rotterdam posted this February 8 interview of Norman Finkelstein in Europe three months ago. We've kept meaning to post it because the longtime scholar of the Israel/Palestine conflict reflects so openly as he approaches his 60th...
Cool new video from University of New Mexico - Students for Justice in Palestine - "This film is inspired by the Palestinian women who everyday nonviolently resist the illegal occupation of their land."
From the video's YouTube page:
Sign the...
Bradley Manning leaked diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks that shed light on U.S. foreign policy and Israel/Palestine (Photo: Associated Press)
The trial of military whistleblower Bradley Manning has refocused attention on the revelations about U.S....
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his West Bank-based government were sworn in on Thursday and one of their main challenges will be reaching a power-sharing deal with the Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza.
Hamdallah, a political...
How's that Interfaith Outreach working out for you, Bishop? "Five church schools in Gaza face closure after Hamas order," by Judith Sudilovsky in the Catholic Herald, June 4 (thanks to Tom):
Five schools in Gaza – two Catholic and three Christian...
