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 (...)
Figures reveal defence firms’ sales at new high, as Prince William prepares for visit to Ramallah and Jerusalem
British defence contractors are selling record amounts of arms to Israel, new figures reveal, just days after it was confirmed that Prince William will represent the UK government on (...)
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 (...)
Israelis considered George Habash a cruel airline hijacker, but Eli Galia’s new Hebrew-language book shows that the PFLP chief’s views would have been better for the Palestinians than Arafat’s compromises
George Habash was Israel’s absolute enemy for decades, the embodiment of evil, the devil (...)
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 (...)
Dublin Becomes First European Capital to Endorse BDS for Palestinian Rights & Drops Hewlett Packard for Its Complicity in Israeli Apartheid.
“Dublin has offered the strongest response to date to Israel’s latest massacre against unarmed Palestinian protesters in the occupied and besieged Gaza (...)
March 30, 2018 showed Israel’s descent into unabashed crimes against humanity, carried out openly by its military, and defended afterwards equally openly by its political and military leadership.
On March 30, over 30,000 Palestinians – children, women, and men – gathered near the Gaza border with (...)
Friday March 30 2018 saw the murder of sixteen Palestinians and the injury of at least 1500, mostly from live ammunition by Israeli troops as they protested inside Gaza, reports Susan Moore. The Palestinian action was calling for an end for the illegal blockade of the territory as well as for (...)
The U.S. government is helping Israel evade responsibility for yet another massacre perpetrated against the people of Gaza, explains Sumaya A..
SEVENTY YEARS ago this coming May, Israeli militias began a campaign of ethnic cleansing that massacred hundreds of Palestinians and forcibly (...)
The initiative behind the march defies the Israeli policy of disconnecting Gaza from the rest of the Palestinians. However, Gazans are not wretched and passive charity cases but a politically aware public
• With riots and live fire, Gaza just went 25 years back in time
• Israel’s clash with (...)
Thousands of protestors injured as Palestinians demand call for the right of return, end to land grabs.
Israeli forces killed at least 12 Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday, according to Palestinian authorities, as tens of thousands of protesters were demonstrating across the (...)
In Gaza, Israeli army snipers are shooting at Palestinian residents as they gather, just as everywhere else in Palestine, to celebrate Land Day.
The Israeli army itself has confirmed that around 100 snipers received orders to shoot at anyone approaching the border. In other words, (...)
The Coalition of Women for Peace is calling on Israeli activists to join their solidarity protest near the border fence with Gaza on Saturday.
Despite the army’s attempts to stoke fear among Israelis and Palestinians alike, a group of Israeli women will join the Palestinian protesters in Gaza (...)
GAZA. AN INQUEST INTO ITS MARTYRDOM By Norman Finkelstein (University of California Press, 2018).
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 (...)
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