In May, a Palestinian band set up in front of a Gaza apartment building flattened by an Israeli air strike. They swept away building debris before starting their performance at the same time as a concert just miles away in Tel Aviv: the Eurovision...
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A campaign for their freedom reached Uganda and RDC“Free them now”. Image used with permission from Nova Democracia party.
Eighteen political delegates from the Nova Democracia (New Democracy) party were arrested on 15 October, in Gaza...
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Corbyn has made it abundantly clear that he is sympathetic to groups such as Hamas, so this is no surprise. “Influential Corbyn-supporting Facebook page run by Hamas from Gaza,” by Donna Rachel Edmunds, Jerusalem Post, December 9, 2019:...
Related topics: Hamas, Facebook, Social Media, Gaza Strip, Israel, Jerusalem
James ZogbyPalestinians rush to the border fence with Israel as mass demonstrations at the fence continue on May 14, 2018 in Gaza City, Gaza. Israeli soldiers killed at least 41 Palestinians and wounded over a thousand as the demonstrations...
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THE MOVEMENT AND THE MIDDLE EAST How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left by Michael R. Fischbach 312 pp. Stanford University Press $26 Michael Fischbach is a smart, committed historian who earlier made his name by publishing...
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Two thousand and nineteen may be remembered as the year of the protest, as demonstrations are engulfing the world. From the Yellow Vests in France to demonstrations in Lebanon, Gaza, Chile, Ecuador and Haiti, sustained movements all over the planet...
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Like many American colleges, Oberlin has among its students a group of those who are obsessively anti-Israel, the Oberlin Students For A Free Palestine, who are long on rage against the Jewish state but short on relevant knowledge. They have just...
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TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered preparations for a possible military operation against Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip after rockets had been fired at Israel on 7 December.
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A terrific review at FrontPage by Bruce Bawer of The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process: [Order Robert Spencer’s The Palestinian Delusion, CLICK HERE.] Over the years, Robert Spencer has written...
The short phone call that Hamouda Abu Amra received from a professed Israeli security officer at 11:15 p.m on November 13 was the fourth catastrophic change to happen in his rural life in Gaza. The call still echoes in Abu Amra’s ears....
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Israeli aircraft bombed several militants' sites in Gaza early Sunday, hours after three rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave toward southern Israel.The military said in a statement the airstrikes targeted military camps and a naval base...
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On Saturday, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that air-raid sirens were activated in the Gaza Strip and Sderot, following a launch of three rockets from Gaza, two of which were successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome defence network.
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Faced with the Trump administration's 'maximum pressure' campaign and unexpected protests at home, Iran's regime is fighting back from Gaza to Kabul.
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Julia Conley, staff writerBrown University is poised to become the first Ivy League college to divest from companies that are complicit in human rights abuses against Palestinians, after an advisory committee voted in agreement with students...
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While most academic enemies of Israel are Middle East studies specialists, increasingly those in the social sciences and humanities are finding new ways to weaponize their fields against the Jewish state. Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine by Jess...
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Three-year-old Ramzy Qasyieh follows his mother around their property in the Makhrour valley near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Together they sift through their possessions, sprawled about in the open air, to show little Ramzy that his toys and...
Julia Conley, staff writerBrown University is poised to become the first Ivy League college to divest from companies that are complicit in human rights abuses against Palestinians, after an advisory committee voted in agreement with students...
Related topics: Human Rights
Why should the Islamic world do this? Establishment policymakers in the US and Europe have no explanation for this, and doubtless do not understand it. What does Islam have to do with what they assume is a conflict over land, or settlements? Find...
Related topics: Tayyip Erdogan, Religion
The catastrophic climate crisis is fueled by global inequality and engineered by complicit governments and corporations that put profit before people and planet. Everywhere, the least powerful are the most affected. Indigenous Palestinians living...
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Intifada refers to violent jihad activity; many Israeli civilians have been murdered in “Palestinian” Intifadas. Whence this venomous hatred? Find out in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace...