“I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious.” Those are the words of Mohammed El-Kurd, the renowned Palestinian activist from East Jerusalem. He and his family are threatened with expulsion from their homes. They have committed no crime, but are being kicked out solely […]
Israeli Meltdown as Tel Aviv accuses Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream of “Terrorism” for Boycotting illegal Israeli Squatter-Settlements in Palestine
( Middle East Monitor) – A landmark victory in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement’s (BDS) campaign against Israel came on Monday, with an announcement from Ben and Jerry’s. After years of BDS campaign appeals to them, the US ice cream maker declared that it would no longer be selling its products in Israeli settlements […]
In Disappointment, even the Israeli Left voted for Racist Palestinian Family Separation Law
( Middle East Monitor ) – This week, Israel’s Parliament the Knesset failed to pass an extension to Israel’s racist marriage law. The law bars the spouses of Palestinian citizens of Israel from receiving citizenship. This means that Palestinians from Haifa, Acre or Jaffa are effectively banned from marrying Palestinians from the West Bank and […]
The World’s Gaze is turning away from the Palestinians, but their Oppression hasn’t Changed
( Middle East Monitor ) – If there was only one tiny sliver of hope that emerged after the horrors that Israel inflicted on the Palestinians last month, it was a new sense of unity among the people of Palestine themselves. And the global solidarity movement for Palestinian rights received a major boost too. On […]
Palestinians need their own State and the ‘Palestinian Authority’ isn’t it: The PA is actually Israel’s auxiliary occupation force
( Middle East Monitor ) – Palestinian activist and political candidate Nizar Banat, 44, was killed in the early hours of Thursday morning. But it was not Israeli soldiers that killed him. Banat was a critic of the Palestinian Authority, or PA, condemning its corruption and its central policy of “security coordination” with Israel. His […]
Imagine Thousands of Bigots Marching through Jewish Neighborhood chanting “Death to Jews” with Police, Political Support; Now substitute “Palestinians” for Jews
( Middle East Monitor ) – Go along with me on a thought experiment for a few minutes. Imagine that British police forces permitted a crowd of thousands to march through an area of London with a high Jewish population chanting “Death to the Jews” and other similar violently bigoted obscenities. Imagine such a group […]
Jerusalem Pogrom: Extremist Jewish Mobs injure 100 Palestinians, chanting “Death to Arabs”
( Middle East Monitor ) – The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines a pogrom as “a mob attack, either approved or condoned by authorities, against the persons and property of a religious, racial, or national minority”. That is exactly what is happening today against the Palestinian people in Jerusalem. Middle East Eye: “Hundreds of far-right Israeli activists […]
The “Real” Apartheid: “There’s no Such Thing as a Palestinian Person”
( Middle East Monitor) – “This is the real apartheid,” Jewish American lawyer Brooke Goldstein tweeted last week. “The fact that Jews can’t enter into ‘Palestinian territory’,” she claimed, “I reject that some places are dangerous for me to enter because I AM A JEW.” Goldstein accompanied her tweet with a photo of a large […]
How Israel’s Occupation of Young Palestinians is Damaging their Mental Health and Wellbeing
( Middle East Monitor ) -There is a major mental health crisis brewing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. A study published in a medical journal in 2014 gives the grim and shocking figure that as many as a quarter of Palestinian adolescents living in those territories have attempted to take their own […]
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