The first comments on Netanyahu’s victory, right and far right in Israeli politics, how did Arab Israelis vote.
A clear victory for Netanyahu
Not only did Netanyahu won the elections but his Likud party increased the number of its members in the new Knesset from 30 to 36, one more than the (...)
I was shut down in South Africa for speaking out, and I’m disturbed that the same is happening to critics of Israel now.
Ronnie Kasrils was a leading member of the African National Congress during the apartheid era and former government minister.
As a Jewish South African anti-apartheid (...)
UN says 194 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and close to 29,000 wounded in past 12 months
Gaza is on edge before a planned Saturday protest to mark the anniversary of mass rallies along its frontier, after a year in which Israeli soldiers have shot thousands of people.
The (...)
Palestinian Authority and Hamas target each other’s supporters, says Human Rights Watch
The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and its political rival Hamas in Gaza regularly detain and torture critics and dissenters, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report.
Both have carried (...)
The Palestinian rapper on the power of Ramallah’s dance culture documented in a new film, Palestine Underground
Muqata’a is locally known as the “godfather” of the underground hip-hop scene in Ramallah, a city in the West Bank, Palestine. A former member of the acclaimed collective Ramallah (...)
Widespread strike brings Palestinians together against controversial law, but also serves as a platform for existing grievances.
JERUSALEM – In a rare show of unity since 1948, Palestinians across the occupied territories staged a large-scale strike on Monday denouncing Israel’s nation-state (...)
Adam Keller, who spent 50 years working alongside Uri Avnery, remembers the man who hoped for a warm embrace between an Israeli and a Palestinian president.
Uri Avnery (Yossi Gurvitz)
How to sum up in a few words 50 years of political partnership, which was also an intimate friendship, with (...)
Thousands protest against new law declaring only Jews have the right to self-determination
Crowds gather in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters
Tens of thousands of Arab Israelis and their supporters protested at a rally in central Tel Aviv on Saturday against a law (...)
For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the perimeter of the 1949 armistice lines. Called by organisers the Great March of Return, the mobilisations have demanded an end to the crippling Western state-Israeli (...)
PM and allies drawn as pigs in magazine after passing law giving exclusive rights to Jews.
The cartoon referenced Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his party taking a congratulatory selfie. Photograph: Olivier Fitoussi/AP
An Israeli magazine has fired its long-serving cartoonist after he (...)
Palestinian lawmakers ejected from Knesset by security after vote, shouting ’you are racist’ at the speaker.
Israel passed a law on Thursday giving Jews supremacy over all non-Jewish Israeli citizens, which critics and members of the state’s Palestinian minority called racist, likening the (...)
For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the perimeter of the 1949 armistice lines. Called by organisers the Great March of Return, the mobilisations have demanded an end to the crippling Western state-Israeli (...)
On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba – the displacement of Palestinians when the state of Israel was founded – the people of Gaza, who have been under Israeli blockade and the rule of Hamas for more than a decade, mobilised in their largest civil resistance demonstrations since the early 2000s. (...)
On May 14, the world saw two starkly opposed moral cultures. On one side were unarmed Palestinian protestors in the Gaza Strip calling for the right of Palestinians to return to the homes and lands they were driven out of by the creation of Israel seventy years ago. Palestinians call that the Nakba (“catastrophe”). On the other side were Israeli snipers along one side of the Israeli “open air prison” of two million Palestinian inmates. The other side of this prison is the Mediterranean Sea, (...)
The Nakba isn’t forgotten history, but the inspiration for the continued resistance of millions of Palestinians in Gaza and around the world, writes Sumaya Awad.
SEVENTY YEARS ago, Israel was founded through the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Today, 70 years later, Israel continues to wage war (...)
It seems almost inevitable that by the time this short piece is published more Palestinians will have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli state, writes Veronica Fagan. And yesterday’s death toll of 58 may well rise as well from amongst the 2000+ people injured by the Israeli Defence force, the (...)
Defiance, then death: Gaza suffers most horrific day of violence for four years
Scores of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire while taking part in ‘Great March of Return’.
Amid the wail of sirens and the urgent to and fro of ambulances from the front line, Gaza’s hospitals struggled on Monday to (...)
These are not “confrontations” or “clashes” as the mainstream media and Western governments are saying. We are dealing with the deliberate crimes of an occupying, colonial and racist force against unarmed protesters.
To date, there have been four mass rallies as part of the Great March of Return (...)
The Fourth International salutes the desperate courage, resolve and creativity of the thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip taking part in the #GreatReturnMarch. We are in full solidarity with them. They have already made a great step forward for the Palestinian cause, by bringing 70 (...)
On March 30, Israel carried out a massacre as tens of thousands gathered in Gaza to demand the right to return to their homes on land occupied by the Israeli state, and from which they were ethnically cleansed. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed at least 17 and injured 1,500. One week (...)
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