Israeli Hawkademia in Australian Universities By Vacy Vlazna The Israeli ‘defense’ industry is embedded in Israeli universities and in universities around the world including Australia. It plunders overseas intellectual property for Israel’s military research-and-development (R&D) programs while strategic bi-lateral research and exchange missions deliberately whitewash or ‘normalize’ the Zionist military occupation [...]
Israel often builds or relocates its most enviromentally harmful factories to the occupied West Bank [GALLO/GETTY] Ramallah, West Bank - Nowhere is the relationship between environmental protection and social justice displayed more clearly than between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT). The Israeli government takes great care to guarantee that its citizens enjoy the benefits [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A special UN committee on Palestinian rights says it is “deeply troubled” by Israel’s cabinet decision to “legalize” three outposts in the occupied West Bank. The bureau says Israel “has blatantly supported and engaged in the expansion of illegal settlements … these brazen actions amount to the first official establishment of new [...]
PLO envoy says settlements prove Israel does not want two state solution. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The PLO ambassador at the United Nations on Wednesday condemned Israeli settlement activity in a series of letters to senior UN officials. “There have been confirmations by the UN Security Council and General Assembly, Human Rights Council and the Social [...]
A Palestinian woman at a demonstration in the village of al-Walaja. Photo Credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. How We’re Footing the Bill for Violent Crackdowns on [...]
A Palestine solidarity protest on March 28, 2009 at Place du Chatelet in Paris, France. Photo Credit: Olga Besnard / Shutterstock.com LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. I read with great interest Peter Beinart’s recent New York Timesop-ed “To [...]
Hana Shalabi is being compared by some to Winnie Mandela who was also exiled for her activism [EPA] Santa Barbara, CA - As with Khader Adnan, Israel supposedly compromised with Hana Shalabi on day 43 of her hunger strike in protest against administrative detentionand her abysmal treatment. But Israel’s concept of “compromise”, if considered, becomes indistinguishable from [...]
Focusing on individualised economic growth in the Palestinian territories turns a blind eye to the occupation, thus indirectly consenting to Israeli expansion [GALLO/GETTY] Ramallah, West Bank - The economy of the West Bank has reached a crossroads, and with it so has the Palestinian Authority (PA). As Palestinian lending banks close their doors, development contracts are [...]
(Reuters, File) By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) — An influential US Republican lawmaker, Rep. Kay Granger, said Friday she was releasing $147 million in US development aid for the Palestinians that she had blocked since last August. But it was unclear whether the money could be spent, because another senior Republican, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, has also [...]
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) — The United Nations launched an international investigation on Thursday into Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories, with the United States isolated in voting against the initiative brought by the Palestinian Authority. The UN Human Rights Council condemned Israel’s planned construction of new housing units for settlers in the West [...]
Annihilation Hovers over Palestine, Not Israel As the threat of Iran’s nuclear potential is hyped in Tel Aviv and Washington, it is the people in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem who are in real danger By Imtiaz Muqbil March 03, 2012 “BangkokPost” – One of the claims being made [...]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as Israel was established. The purpose of [...]
Israel’s Separation Wall and hundreds of checkpoints prevent travel between the occupied Palestinian territories and the state of Israel for most Palestinians and Israelis [GALLO/GETTY] Irvine, California - Say what you will about Israel’s High Court of Justice, it knows how to name a decision. In titling last Wednesday’s legal decision, upholding the controversial [...]
Enough of the injustice. By Graham Peebles Violence, abuse, non-accountability, hate, such is communal living today within the occupied West Bank, where some 518,974 colonisers sit within 200 illegal settlements. According to Noam Chomsky, ”The settlements cover over 42% of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), not counting the Jordon valley, which they are taking over.” [...]
The purpose of the law was to criminalize refugees returning home. By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes and lands from which they had been expelled as [...]
Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, responds to The Times’ Jan. 2 Op-Ed article, “Bibi and Barack.” Bennis is the coauthor of “Ending the U.S. War in Afghanistan: A Primer” and the author of “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.” If you would like to write a [...]
The tribunal’s final verdict should be delivered at its closing session. By Ludwig WatzalThe Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) was launched in Brussels on 4 March 2009. It’s a people’s tribunal in the spirit of the Tribunal on the Vietnam war that was set up by Lord Bertrand Russell in 1966 to protest the [...]
At 10:55 am, an Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain in an apparent attempt to capsize it. The two international observers, both Italian citizens, are available for media questions or interviews.”The Israeli navy passed near us and [...]
Palestinians who live in Israel, not in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, face daily discrimination [GALLO/GETTY] Israel’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories – like the settlements, the killing of civilians and the demolition of homes – are openly condemned in the West by human rights groups and others like never before. But as [...]
Israeli soldiers stand next to a launcher, part of the first “Iron Dome” missile … As long as you keep picking. helping and supporting bad friends all you do is make enemies of good people. George Ikners ikners.com gikners@gmail.com Israel‘s defence ministry said on Sunday that the United States has agreed to provide it with [...]
President Barack Obama talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting in New York, Wednesday, Sept., 21, 2011. Photo by: AP Palestinian officials: U.S. isolated over support of Israel settlements PLO delegation to the United States welcomes UN Security Council censure of West Bank construction, urges U.S. to join the [...]
http://www.fistfulofpoetry.com/ Palestine lost a great friend this week. Richard Jones passed away two days ago. Richard was a close friend of mine. He was one of my favourite poets and a devoted advocate of Palestinian rights and Justice. Richard AKA RedRej was one of the very few intellectuals who struggled to maintain socialist thinking as [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities have extended the closure of four Palestinian NGOs in Jerusalem for another year, the Palestinian Authority said Friday. Police sealed the entrance of the four NGOs on Wednesday, said a statement calling the action reflective of a policy to control and undermine the role of Palestinian civil society in Jerusalem. [...]
Palestinian Freedom Riders are seeking their rights. By Josh Ruebner Fifty years ago, Freedom Riders braved beatings and arson by supremacists intent on maintaining apartheid in the Jim Crow South. By challenging segregated transportation through nonviolent action, these African American and white activists set in motion a process that ultimately dismantled segregation. While the struggle [...]
A Palestinian jumps to avoid tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers at a weekly protest in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah. (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations B’Tselem and Al-Haq have been jointly honored with an annual human rights award by the Danish PL Foundation. [...]
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine hearing in Cape Town in November 2011 (MaanImages/Hanan Chehata, HO) By Frank Barat and Victor Kattan The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international citizen-based tribunal of conscience, has found that “Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalized regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law.” [...]
Security officers survey a naval police compound damaged in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza Nov. 14, 2011. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli warplanes fired on the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday, onlookers said after two rockets were reported to have struck southern Israel. No injuries were reported in either incident. An [...]
Destroying Palestinian Solar Plant By Stuart Reigeluth With international attention focusing on the Palestinian UN bid, the prisoner swap and the absurd US response to UNESCO accepting Palestine, a much smaller event but no less revealing has been largely overlooked: Israel wants to destroy a Spanish-sponsored solar power plant in the West [...]
The Palestinian admission to UNESCO is no ‘tragedy’. (UN) By Clive Hambidge The UN Cultural organisation (UNESCO) voted strongly in favour of membership for the Palestinians. A vote opposed by Israel. There were 173 countries that voted, 107 in favour, 14 opposing and 52 abstaining. Great Britain was one of those in [...]
Are We about to Betray the Palestinians, Again? By Stuart Littlewood Media reports suggest that Britain will again betray the Palestinian people in the UN vote tomorrow on whether to recognise the Palestinian territories as an independent state. The Guardian, for example, says that Britain will join forces with two other EU [...]
Mosque set alight in Galilee village A Palestinian shows the damage to a family house which was firebombed by Jewish settlers in the West Bank village of Huwwara near Nablus. [AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh] JERUSALEM (AFP) — A mosque in northern Israel was set on fire overnight Sunday in a suspected ‘price tag’ attack, Israeli police [...]
Why Mr. President give new credits to anti-American sentiment? (UN Photo) By Ahmed Yousef – Gaza Mr. President, The Arab world is experiencing a time of epic transformation. Few believed the streets of Tunis would rebel in their lifetimes, let alone simultaneously with Tripoli, Cairo, Damascus, Sana’a and all the smaller cities known more to [...]
A Village Under Siege in the West Bank As Palestinians seek statehood at the United Nations, the daily struggle goes on for the 1,200 residents of Wadi Fukin. —Jakob Schiller Most days Yousef Manasra wakes to the sound of jackhammers. The incessant pounding drones on throughout the day and into the evening as [...]
Palestinians differ about whether the bid for statehood will change the situation ‘on the ground’ [GALLO/GETTY] For the past few weeks, a world of analysts and academics has been fretting and strutting hypotheses about the [...]
Israel’s Blockade of Gaza Violates International Law, Says UN Panel The latest UN report on Gaza blockade disputes Palmer Report, claims its findings were politically motivated by John Glaser, September 13, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, according to a panel of human rights experts [...]
Fatah, Hamas recall 18 years of failed Oslo Accords Published yesterday (updated) 13/09/2011 22:04 The small Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on Friday held a demonstration to “bury” the Oslo Accords once and for all [MaanImages] RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Senior Fatah official Mohammad Shtayyeh on Tuesday called on the international community to assume its [...]
In May 2010, Israeli commandos raided a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, killing nine Turks and igniting a diplomatic row [EPA] Erdogan: Turkish forces to escort aid to Gaza Defying Israel‘s blockade, PM Erdogan says Turkey will send aid shipments to Gaza under the protection of naval forces. Last Modified: 08 Sep 2011 23:58 Turkey’s naval forces would [...]
In the occupied Palestinian Territories, a “matrix of control has been put into place that curbs Palestinians‘ most basic human rights” [GALLO/GETTY] The crime of apartheid In order to keep Israel a “Jewish” state, racist policies amounting to apartheid have been used against Palestinians. Frank Barat Last Modified: 07 Sep 2011 11:02 South [...]
The Panel was obsessed with Israel’s security. (Via Aljazeera) By Julie Webb-Pullman – Gaza The most fundamental fault of the Palmer Report on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident(1) is its one-eyed view of security. The second is its exceeding of the Terms of Reference (TOR). While the Report upholds, and goes into considerable detail [...]
Whither Gaddafi and Libya? By FRANKLIN LAMB Tripoli. The large gold framed portrait of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi that adorned the wall behind the reception desk of my hotel since it opened many years ago has vanished. Also gone are the 72 green flags that flew on the white poles have also been removed. It’s not [...]
Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness by STEPHEN LENDMAN on AUGUST 17, 2011 Spread it! 2Share| 5Share 0 inShare 0digg email print By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity? Why [...]
Spotlight on Occupied Palestine By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Education as indoctrination Over the last 10 years there have been periodicoutbursts of rage over the alleged anti-Semitic nature of Palestinian textbooks. Most of these episodes have been instigated by an Israeli based organization called the Centre for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (also [...]
Gaza government: No crisis with NGOs, USAID Published Friday 12/08/2011 (updated) 14/08/2011 17:36 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The minister of foreign affairs and planning in Gaza, Mohammad Awad, denied Friday the existence of a crisis with NGOs and assistance agencies like USAID. Awad told Ma’an the government in Gaza remained committed to working with NGOs [...]
Israeli Persecution of Palestinian Children By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 14 August 2011 Israeli Persecution of Palestinian Children – by Stephen Lendman Repeatedly in many ways, the real Israel belies the myth of a free, open, democratic state. In fact, the very notion is ludicrous even to growing numbers of fed up Israelis, voting with their [...]
You can view these photos and many more at Anna Baltzer‘s site at: http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com/photos/checkpoints/ Flying Checkpoints A Day at Huwwara Segregation by License Plates Health Violations at Checkpoints Azzun Atma Other Checkpoint Stories Qalandia Terminal Related articles A 2009 report from Anna Baltzer. (ikners.com) Article by Anna Baltzer about women on both sides [...]
Gaza govt announces compromise on US aid Published today (updated) 13/08/2011 20:5 GAZA CITY (AFP) — Hamas and the US Agency for International Development have reached a compromise to maintain the flow of aid, a senior Hamas official said Saturday. “We’ve reached a compromise with USAID through the United Nations” to allow the continuation [...]
Israel‘s protest movement and the US media Published Monday 08/08/2011 (updated) 11/08/2011 14:53 Israelis demonstrators gather in their tent camp in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on August 1. Representatives of an Israeli social protest movement that has swept the country and rattled the government were meeting at Tel Aviv University Tuesday to [...]
Gaza government: No crisis with NGOs Published yesterday (updated) 12/08/2011 21:44 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The minister of foreign affairs and planning in Gaza, Mohammad Awad, denied Friday the existence of a crisis with NGOs and assistance agencies like USAID. Awad told Ma’an the government in Gaza remained committed to working with NGOs in order [...]
The Obviously False Objections to Palestinian Statehood at U.N. John Glaser, August 10, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Harry Siegman has a brilliant takedown at the National Interest of U.S.-Israeli objections to a September bid for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. I wrote a bit about the false arguments against Palestinian statehood last [...]
Muhammad behind the wall: ‘Now, I am Nobody.’ (Mats Svensson) By Mats Svensson I have visited Muhammad around sixty times. But it is only now that we begin to really talk to each other. Seven years ago, I met Muhammad for the first time. I was then out on one of my long weekend walks. [...]
