August 12, 2024 We have been lied to for decades about the creation of Israel, writes Jonathan Cook. It was born in sin, and it continues to live in sin. Jonathan Cook “Israel army issues new displacement order from northern Gaza.” That headline, about yet another Israeli operation to ethnically …
Read More »Demanding change with broken hearts .. A letter from a European
Exclusive article – Arab Gazette 31/7/2021 Madeleine Kate McGowan I was born in Denmark, to an Irish mother and a Danish father. My mother and father met each other in Iraq in the 1970’s. We traveled to Ireland often. Back then the British were present in Northern Ireland, enforcing checkpoints, …
Read More »To see the future of urban warfare, look at Gaza
Western armies are studying the horrifying conflict for tactical lessons Jul 18th 2024 For armies lucky enough to be at peace, other people’s wars are learning opportunities. Take Israel’s northern front, where the Israeli Forces have been exchanging rockets and drones with Hizbullah, the Lebanese militant group. To stop Hizbullah’s increasingly …
Read More »Peter Beaumont June 20, 2024 The Israeli military has quietly handed over significant legal powers in the occupied West Bank to pro-settler civil servants working for the far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich. An order posted by the Israel Defense Forces on its website on 29 May transfers responsibility for dozens of …
Read More »Morgan Bassichi of JVP: Not in our Names
A very important speech by an activist, Morgan Bassichi, with “Jewish Voice for Peace/USA”: I am so proud to be here tonight as one of the hundreds of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews, who proudly join the millions of people around the world rising up in solidarity with the people of …
Read More »A Putin collapse? The dangers of wishful thinking
Some say that like the USSR, the current Russian presidency is brittle. But they are overlooking a lot APR 30, 2024 Peter The Carnegie Center’s Maksim Samorukov recently published an article in Foreign Affairs entitled “Putin’s brittle regime. Like the Soviet one that preceded it, his system is always on the brink …
Read More »The Artists Preserving Palestinian Collective Memory
04.02.2024 DALIA AL-DUJAILI The newly-released book, Yesterday, Come Closer, is an urgent attempt at consolidating Palestinian art, music, and writing in the face of genocide. An image of two Palestinian children playing in water against a backdrop of brown soil and olive trees sits alongside the statement: “Indigenous people protect their …
Read More »The spiraling absurdity of Germany’s pro-Israel fanaticism
As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a story Germans can only tell themselves. March 21, 2024 Michael Sappir A Palestine solidarity demonstration in the Potsdamer Platz area, Berlin, October 15, 2023. The police suppressed the demonstration shortly after authorizing …
Read More »One State in Israel-Palestine: Our Only Hope
June 18, 2021 Ruby Amatulla, Noam Chomsky tweeted on May 25, 2021, “The tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story – hard to understand and even harder to solve.” In …
Read More »Visual Evidence Shows Illegal Settler Construction in West Bank Surging
After the aggression war against Gaza on October 7, 2023, the settlers’ movement accelerated its measures of land confiscation and construction of new settlements. The right-wing government agreed to build 3,500 illegal housing units in the occupied West Bank in addition to 20,000 units that was approved last year. The …
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