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Thomas Friedman’s recent column in the New York Times reflecting on Israel’s 11-day destruction of Gaza is a showcase for the delusions of liberal Zionism: a constellation of thought that has never looked so threadbare.
It seems that every liberal newspaper needs a Thomas Friedman – the UK’s (...)
In the fourth day of the cease-fire in Gaza, Israel continues its drive against Palestinians in the West Bank and in “green line” Israel.
On the first day of the cease-fire Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli security forces, stormed the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and attacked (...)
After negotiations mediated by Egypt and Qatar, a ceasefire was established between Israel and the Gaza Strip on 21 May. While it is obviously welcome that the people of Gaza are no longer under bombardment, nothing is settled, and Palestinians can be expected to continue to mobilise for their (...)
Palestinian Americans’ support for the resistance to Israeli occupation is growing, as support from other groups such as the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has inspired them to stand up.
Many Jews have joined protests, including supporters of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). The JVP supports (...)
Palestine is a stone, stuck in the throat of the world; none can swallow it.
–Elias Sanbar, Le bien des absents (2001)
The Third Intifada is anti-zionist
Against analyses which attribute the Palestinian uprising to the politics of the Israeli far-right, a clarification is needed. Let us say (...)
While details are sketchy, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire. That is good news for everyone involved. The dying can hopefully end and further destruction be avoided — at least for now.
Both sides can also claim victory. Hamas can claim to have defended the interests of Palestinians (...)
The Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development welcomes the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after 11 days of fierce fighting, the most intense conflict between the two parties since 2014. The ceasefire provides relief from military violence and better conditions to ensure that (...)
The Islamist movement surprised Israel and the international community when it intervened on the back of a popular uprising in Jerusalem. But some Palestinians remain wary of cooptation, says analyst Tareq Baconi.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was finally announced Thursday night after (...)
The administration of President Biden has thrown its full support to the current Israeli murderous war against Palestinians in all the territory the racist, Jewish supremacist state rules over in Gaza and the West Bank, and also in what is referred to as Israel proper.
It is pulverizing Gaza (...)
Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid struggle, the nonviolent BDS movement needs your support, writes BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti
Toni Morrison wrote in her novel Beloved, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” Palestinians have learned the hard way that unless we (...)
With enormous pro-Palestine demonstrations erupting across the world — including a historic general strike today in Palestine itself — Israeli apartheid is feeling the heat. The next step is to bring it down.
Do you support the protests, the violent protests, that have erupted in solidarity with (...)
This review was written and initially posted in 2018 on the Solidarity website . NORMAN FINKELSTEIN’s LIFETIME of scholar-activism includes a long record of skewering highly acclaimed pundits and propagandists of the “pro-Israel” and media establishments. His first target was the fraudulent (...)
George Floyd was cold-bloodedly, albeit unintentionally, murdered in the course of “felony assault” in Minneapolis on May 25, almost exactly a year ago. The next day, once the news and video of his murder had gone viral, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area witnessed days of violent rioting and (...)
One hundred thousand people flooded central London’s streets on Saturday, demanding an end to the brutal Israeli attack on Gaza and self-determination for the Palestinian people. Tens of thousands more took part in demonstrations in all the major cities of England, Scotland and Wales over the (...)
In recent weeks, Palestinians in Jerusalem have mobilized and stood to defend their basic rights – for the right to self-determination as Palestinians, defend their homes, their families and generations against the Israeli government along with right extremist organizations’ attempt to drive (...)
In recent weeks, Palestinians in Jerusalem have mobilized en masse to defend their basic right – to live in their own homes, homes to their families for several generations – against the attempts of the Israeli government and extremist settler organizations to drive them out and replace them (...)
The world’s attention has turned again to deadly scenes of Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the launching of rockets by the militant group Hamas into Israel. It follows two weeks of protests in East Jerusalem against attempts to forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh (...)
HISTORY RECYCLES: THE first Palestinian Intifada began in December, 1987 when Gaza day laborers were killed in a traffic crash at an Israeli border gate. The second erupted in September 2000 after Ariel Sharon, campaigning to become Israeli Prime Minister, staged a deliberately provocative (...)
Young Palestinians in Jerusalem are uncompromising, have wide followings on social media, and are leading the fight in Sheikh Jarrah.
Four Palestinian families are dauntlessly protesting their imminent forced expulsion from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem – homes (...)
Recent racist anti-Palestinian riots in Jerusalem show that settler-colonial violence is fundamental to Israeli society.
During the racist anti-Palestinian riots that ensued in Jerusalem last week, a protester was interviewed by a journalist concerning the approach, specifically, the language (...)
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