This commentary in Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly gets it just right. The incredibly sad irony is that Al-Ahram’s editors obviously didn’t read it! The introdek they appended to it assumes the piece is making the same tired point about how the… Read moreArab scholar: “Jewish lobby” scapegoat for imperial interests
On March 16, 2003, Washington state-born activist Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while acting as a “human shield” against the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah, on the Gaza Strip. Last year, Katherine Viner,… Read moreNYC: activists bring Rachel Corrie’s censored words to stage
In October 2004, we reported on the struggle of traditional Palestinian cave-dwellers in the South Hebron region to maintain their lands from Israeli settler theft and encroachment. An update is now provided by Neve Gordon, who witnessed an inspiring joint… Read moreSettler tree-theft from Palestinian cave-dwellers
The Dalai Lama just visited Israel, where no Israeli official would meet with him. According to the following account, a Palestinian NGO also agreed to cancel his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories at China’s request. From the Middle East… Read more“Separatist” Dalai Lama snubbed by Palestinians
The Palestinian press is raising the possibility that Israel may be trying to provoke a response with a recent large spate of “targeted killings.” From the International Middle East Media Center, Feb. 10: Ongoing Israeli Assassinations by Missile said to… Read moreIsrael assassinates 13 in one week
In a big boost to the sclerotic campaign to divest from companies that do business with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, the Church of England reversed earlier expectations, voting to divest from the Caterpillar corporation:… Read moreChurch of England votes to divest from Caterpillar
Danny Rubinstein, longtime journalist and Palestinian affairs analyst for the respected Israeli daily Ha’aretz, believes that Arafat was poisoned, but felt proscribed from writing about his conclusions in Ha’aretz. Rubinstein explained why in an interview to Keshev, The Center for… Read moreArafat poisoned: Israeli journalist
Arutz Sheva, arch-reactionary organ of the Israeli settler movement, is clearly overjoyed by this Nov. 13 tidbit: (IsraelNN.com) New York Senator and former US First Lady Hillary Clinton voiced her support for the Partition Wall Sunday. “The fence was built… Read moreHillary supports Apartheid Wall
For years, apologists for Israeli policy in the occupied territories, such as CAMERA, have claimed the system of “Jewish-only” roads did not exist, since they are intermittently open to Palestinian traffic. The system has been de facto and not de… Read moreIsrael to make “apartheid” road system permanent in West Bank?
Plia Albeck, legal advisor to the Israeli government and known as the “mother of settlements,” died Sept. 27 at age 68, according to the Oct. 7 edition of New York’s weekly Jewish Press. In 24 years as head of the… Read moreIsrael’s “Mother of all settlements” dies
From Israel’s largest newspaper, Yediot Aharanot. A year ago, several high school students in an upscale section of Tel Aviv chained themselves to the gate of their school to keep out an army recruiter. As one of their number, Uri… Read moreIsraeli refuseniks in graphic street theater
With the approval of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ultra-fundamentalist Jewish “Ateret Cohanim” organization “is at the moment conducting a dig” at a depth of 12 meters beneath a building just 80 meters away from the walls of Islam’s… Read moreSecret wars for the Temple Mount
