Children are usually detained in the middle of the night from their family homes, often severely beaten, and threatened
Category
- Africa (115)
- Animals (1)
- Asia (682)
- Authoritarianism (124)
- Cats (1)
- Culture (366)
- Dehydration (1)
- Democracy (176)
- Dissent (266)
- Economy (529)
- Education (58)
- Elderly (2)
- Energy (881)
- Environment (1,087)
- Europe (611)
- Featured (1,907)
- fiction (5)
- Food (7)
- Guns (9)
- History (174)
- Human Rights (901)
- Immigration (15)
- International (600)
- Islamophobia (232)
- Juan Cole (264)
- Latin America (44)
- Latinos (3)
- leisure (21)
- media (328)
- Middle East (5,893)
- Arab World (4,084)
- Iran (615)
- Israel (626)
- Israel/ Palestine (1,412)
- Israel/Palestine (8)
- Kurds (222)
- Turkey (352)
- military (103)
- Modernism (1)
- nationalism (97)
- NATO (4)
- Natural Disasters (11)
- nuclear weapons (34)
- Patriarchy (1)
- Peace (63)
- Persian mythology (1)
- Popular Culture (22)
- Poverty (5)
- privacy (19)
- racism (250)
- Rape (2)
- religion (679)
- Rights (120)
- Romance (1)
- science (92)
- Secular (West) (7)
- Secularism (19)
- Sexual Assault (2)
- South Pacific (1)
- Spirituality (19)
- Statelessness (14)
- Surveillance (254)
- Terrorism (988)
- Tolerance (4)
- Uncategorized (8,019)
- United Nations (64)
- Urbanization (3)
- US Foreign Policy (442)
- US politics (2,802)
- Anti-War Movement (5)
- Campaign Finance (23)
- Censors (21)
- Central Intelligence Agency (56)
- Civil Rights (75)
- Constitution (228)
- crime (3)
- Democratic Party (429)
- Democratic Socialists of America (1)
- Domestic Terrorism (15)
- Drone Warfare (21)
- Espionage (107)
- Ethnicities (215)
- Far Right (156)
- FBI (33)
- Foreign Policy (189)
- Gay Rights (12)
- Guns (57)
- Immigration (135)
- Israel Lobbies (72)
- Marijuana (1)
- Militarization (207)
- National Security State (363)
- Native Americans (20)
- Nuclear arsenal (5)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (235)
- Police (19)
- prison reform (3)
- Puerto Rico (24)
- Religious Right (1)
- Reproductive Choice (7)
- Republican Party (1,625)
- Supreme Court (41)
- Voter suppression (18)
- Whistleblowers (3)
- Xenophobia (7)
- Veterans (17)
- Voting Rights (4)
- War (220)
- Western Religion (339)
- White Supremacists (45)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (239)
- workers (110)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (106)
Israel/ Palestine
Israel Seeks to undermine US 1st Amendment, Will Sue Airbnb over Delisting WB Squatter Apts
Airbnb, the giant online apartment rental site will delist 200 apartments of Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank. The company has long been criticized for violating international law by dealing with the illegal colonists. Israel occupied the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza in 1967, and has introduced Apartheid rule there, keeping the Palestinians stateless. […]
After Israeli Attack on Journalists Protest, Int’l Fed. of Journalists demands Response
“The IFJ’s global leadership and a number of Palestinian journalists walked peacefully.”
If World Could Vote, it would Slam Illegal Israeli Occupation of Palestine… Oh Wait
WASHINGTON (Ma’an) — The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted, early Saturday, in favor of eight resolutions on Palestine and a ninth on the Syrian Golan Heights. Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the UN Riyad Mansour said, commenting on the vote, that the votes are proof that the international community stands behind and supports the Palestinian […]
Israel Battles in Gaza but loses Politically
(48hills) – Earlier this week the Israeli military and armed groups in Gaza clashed in the worst fighting since their 2014 war. Israeli planes bombed Palestinians, killing seven, wounding 26 and destroying numerous office and apartment buildings. Palestinian groups fired rockets and mortars into Israel, killing one civilian and wounding 18. Both sides agreed to […]
Top Chefs bow out of Israel Food Festival under BDS/ Boycott pressure
Two leading chefs have pulled out of the Tel Aviv-hosted Round Tables food festival following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, reported Haaretz. Gabrielle Hamilton, chef, and owner of the Prune restaurant in New York, cancelled, following the earlier cancellation by Ana Ros, a world-acclaimed chef from Slovenia. Ahead of the festival, […]
Chomsky: Occupation, Gaza ‘Concentration Camp’ turning Israel Fascist
‘Keeping a Jackboot on people’s necks’
Israel: Lieberman Quits over PM refusal to War on Gaza, Gov’t Totters
By Jonah Mandel | – Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his resignation on Wednesday and called for early elections after a sharp disagreement over a Gaza ceasefire deal, throwing the government into turmoil. Lieberman also said his party was quitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, leaving the premier with only a […]
Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza kill 4, destroy TV Station, as Rockets kill 1 in Israel
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said two of those killed were its members and the third was from Islamic Jihad’s armed wing
© 2018 All Rights Reserved