Sami Michael: An immigrant in his own country
The Occupation is the embodiment of disaster for Israel. Greater Israel, the enthusiasm to conquer, rule and colonize in the very heart of a dense Palestinian population, that sweeping wave was...
View ArticleGideon Levy: Arab villages, bulldozed from our memory
Our beloved Tel Aviv, whose reputation for enlightenment and openness is world renowned, is built in part on ruined Palestinian villages - and refuses to acknowledge it.
View ArticleNew Matzpen website
IOA Editor: For 50 years now, Matzpen, an Israeli anti-Zionist activist organization, has been a leading voice for Palestinian rights, and against the Israeli occupation. Its new website covers decades...
View ArticleAPJP: End all demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan and all of East Jerusalem!
Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine call upon the mayor of Jerusalem to put an end to all house demolitions in Al Bustan, Silwan, and the rest of East Jerusalem.
View ArticleRussell Tribunal on Palestine – New York session, 6-7 October 2012
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) will be holding its fourth international session in New York City on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7. The RToP is an International People’s Tribunal...
View ArticleRussell Tribunal: Israel’s crimes not Possible without US support
After two days of expert testimony by notables such as public intellectual Noam Chomsky and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, heard before a packed crowd that included actors Harry Belafonte and Wallace...
View ArticleMoshé Machover: On Israeli Apartheid
In my opinion the whole semantic discussion of Israeli "apartheid" skirts around the fundamental question: the underlying political economy of Zionist colonization.
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Israeli Ministry of Tourism map annexes over 60% of the West Bank
Is Israel preparing to annex Area C, as a growing number of analysts have recently been speculating? This week, on a visit to the Israel’s tourism bureau in Nazareth, Jonathan Cook came across an...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: Impressions of Gaza
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: ‘It’s time for Palestinians in Israel to stand firm against...
Awad Abdel Fattah: "Our [Palestinian Israelis'] traditional strength derived from the fact that we, as a community, survived the ethnic cleansing of 1948 [the Nakba]. We remained in our homeland, even...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky responds to Gisha’s “What we want from Noam Chomsky”
I have always admired the work of Gisha, and therefore read its response to my “Impressions of Gaza” with much interest — and comparable disappointment. The response refers to exactly one statement of...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Why Gaza must suffer again
The inciting cause of the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas has little to do with the firing of rockets, whether by Hamas or the other Palestinian factions. The conflict predates the...
View ArticleUN General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to accord Palestine ‘Non-Member...
Voting by an overwhelming majority — 138 in favour to 9 against (Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Panama, Palau, United States), with 41...
View ArticleAl Jazeera, Empire: Palestine – state of play
The dawn of a Palestinian state has been a long time coming. After 65 years of dispossession, 45 years of occupation, and 20 years of failed peace attempts, on Thursday Palestine took one step closer...
View ArticleIsraeli forces take over Jordan Valley in ‘Austere Challenge 2012′ military...
Since late October, major defence drills, including manoeuvres involving heavy tanks as well as air and missile training, have been taking place throughout the Jordan Valley as part of the joint...
View ArticleNon-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in the Jordan Valley
International NGOs are working extensively in the Palestinian villages, towns and cities of Areas A and B, whilst Palestinians in Area C (including most of the Jordan Valley) are systematically denied...
View ArticleMoshé Machover review: The intersemitic crisis
The veteran Israeli socialist, Moshé Machover, has just brought out a wonderful collection of writings, chiefly his own, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is no exaggeration to say that this book...
View ArticleMoshé Machover: Israel-Palestine – race against history
If an Arab state west of the Jordan is legitimate, then Zionist colonisation and its state were and are illegitimate. So by acting consistently to prevent a ‘two-state solution’ Israeli governments...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: How 20 tents rocked Israel
However futile the activists' efforts prove to be on this occasion, the encampment indicates that ordinary Palestinians are better placed to find inventive ways to embarrass Israel than the hidebound...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Herod exhibit digs up controversy
Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrachi: “Israel wants to present the situation as if it is simply ‘borrowing’ these antiquities from the Palestinians, like it might borrow an exhibit from France or...
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