Israel seizes aid ship Rachel Corrie

Israeli authorities announced the seizure without resistance of the Gaza-bound aid ship Rachel Corrie. Organizers said the vessel had been “stormed and hijacked.”

Israeli activists call for pressure on Israel

The Israeli group Boycott!—”Supporting the Palestinian BDS call from within”—has issued an appeal for pressure on Tel Aviv to allow the aid ship Rachel Corrie to pass to Gaza.

Nicaragua breaks ties with Israel

Nicaragua has become the first country to cut off diplomatic ties with Israel in protest of Israel’s deadly raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla that has sparked global outrage.

Security Council calls for inquiry into Israeli action against Gaza aid ships

The UN Security Council has called for a “prompt, impartial, credible and transparent investigation” into the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces storm Gaza aid flotilla; 16 dead

Up to 16 people have been killed as Israeli naval commandos boarded aid ships bound for the Gaza Strip. The six-ship aid convoy led by a Turkish vessel has 600 people on board.

Noam Chomsky barred from West Bank

Noam Chomsky, once demonized as a crypto-Zionist on this website, has been barred by Israeli authorities from entering the West Bank.

Palestinians protest “new Nakba” in Jerusalem

Some 200 Israeli Arabs and Palestinians marked Nakba Day by marching on East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to protest government plans to expel hundreds of Arab residents.

HRW blasts Israel on destruction of Gaza property

Israel should investigate unlawful destruction of property during the 2009 Gaza hostilities and lift the blockade that hinders rebuilding, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.

Israeli rights groups protest orders for West Bank deportations

Israeli rights groups are protesting new military orders that will make any West Bank resident without a permit liable for deportation or imprisonment.

Netanyahu at AIPAC confab: Jerusalem is ours!

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told cheering AIPAC delegates: “The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today.”

New Mossad hit —in Hungary?

In a possible sequel to the recent Dubai assassination, Israeli spy planes flew “uninvited and unannounced” over Budapest the same day a Syrian man was shot dead in the Hungarian capital.

Israeli foreign minister snubs Lula’s “peace mission”

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman reportedly boycotted the visit by Lula da Silva after the Brazilian president refused to visit the grave of Zionist movement founder Theodor Herzl.