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.
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.”
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.
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.
Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitrarily from citizens of Palestinian origin, Human Rights Watch says. Jordan stripped more than 2,700 of their nationality between 2004 and 2008.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay rebuked both Israel and the Palestinians for failing to carry out independent investigations into human rights abuses in Gaza last winter.
Palestinians staged angry protests in Jerusalem as part of a “day of rage” over Israeli redevelopment plans in the occupied Old City which they say threaten al-Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinian women clashed with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem, chanting “Jerusalem is Arab, our eternal capital.” Israeli forces dispersed the women with tear gas.
