With appalling blatancy, Israel’s “amen chorus” on Capitol Hill is proposing use of the Armenian genocide—or the threat of US recognition of it as genocide—as political ammo against Turkey.
The Israeli Navy opened fire on an armed squad of Palestinians wearing diving suits and supposedly on their way to attack Israeli targets, killing four alleged al-Aqsa Brigade members.
Marking the anniversary of the 1967 seizure of the West Bank and Gaza, some 15,000 Israeli leftists and peace activists marched in Tel Aviv to mark "43 years of occupation."
Israeli authorities announced the seizure without resistance of the Gaza-bound aid ship Rachel Corrie. Organizers said the vessel had been “stormed and hijacked.”
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 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.
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.
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, once demonized as a crypto-Zionist on this website, has been barred by Israeli authorities from entering the West Bank.
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.
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 are protesting new military orders that will make any West Bank resident without a permit liable for deportation or imprisonment.
