Relatives of Arkan Mizhar, a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli soldiers during a raid, mourn during his funeral Dec 5, 2019 If it feels like Palestinians are constantly dying, that’s because they are. 43 in November. 526 since Trump’s Jerusalem announcement 2 years ago – 111 of them children. …
Read More »The Rise of Israel’s Political Right and Its Possible Demise
April 27, 2019 Zuhair Sabbagh* The following research article is an attempt to analyze the reasons behind the increasing drift of right-wing politics in Israeli parliamentary elections in the last two decades. It also evaluates the impact of national insecurity and scaremongering on the political behavior of Israeli Jewish voters. …
Read More »I fought South African apartheid. I see the same brutal policies in Israel
Ronnie Kasrils I was shut down in South Africa for speaking out, and I’m disturbed that the same is happening to critics of Israel now Ronnie Kasrils was a leading member of the African National Congress during the apartheid era and former government minister Wed 3 Apr 2019 As a …
Read More »I fought South African apartheid. I see the same brutal policies in Israel
April 3, 2009 Ronnie Kasrils I was shut down in South Africa for speaking out, and I’m disturbed that the same is happening to critics of Israel now. Ronnie Kasrils was a leading member of the African National Congress during the apartheid era and former government minister As a Jewish …
Read More »Netanyahu Isn’t the Problem. The Israeli People Are
The apartheid did not start with him and will not end with his departure Mar 13, 2019 Gideon Levy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, March 10, 2019. It’s not Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or at least not just him. One cannot blame one person, …
Read More »The Guardian view on Israel’s democracy: killing with impunity, lying without consequence?
The late Amos Oz was right to say ‘even unavoidable occupation is a corrupting occupation’. Israeli voters should heed his words. In the last nine months of 2018, according to the United Nations, Palestinians – many of them children – were killed at the rate of around one a day …
Read More »The Guardian view on Israel’s democracy: killing with impunity, lying without consequence?
The late Amos Oz was right to say ‘even unavoidable occupation is a corrupting occupation’. Israeli voters should heed his words. In the last nine months of 2018, according to the United Nations, Palestinians – many of them children – were killed at the rate of around one a day while …
Read More »From the River to the Sea: The Inevitable End of Settler Colonialism in Palestine
The assumption that a free Palestine calls for the expulsion or killing of Jews is one that is made mostly by those who can see Palestine only as a place where one side rules over and kills the other, but never where all people live in peace. Miko Peled JERUSALEM, …
Read More »Israeli intervention in US elections ‘vastly overwhelms’ anything Russia has done, claims Noam Chomsky
Andrew Buncombe Veteran activist Noam Chomsky has accused Israel of “brazenly” interfering in US electoral politics in a way that vastly outweighs any efforts that may have been carried out by Russia. In comments in which he accused much of the media of concentrating on stories he considered marginal and ignoring issues such as the “existential …
Read More »Why Confronting Israel Is Important The Jewish state is no friend
By Philip Giraldi I am often asked why I have this “thing” about Israel, with friends suggesting that I would be much more respected as a pundit if I were to instead concentrate on national security and political corruption. The problem with that formulation is that the so-called “special relationship” …
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