On 18 January 2014, barely five miles from the centre of Damascus – with President Bashar al‑Assad’s office complex visible in the distance – a small crowd of desperate people emerged from a seemingly uninhabited…
Controlling the water, electricity and taxes, Israel’s mob – IEC, Customs and the infrastructure ministry – shows the Palestinian Authority who’s the boss. By Zvi Bar’el | Feb. 25, 2015 | http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.644049 There is no closure on the West…
The sickest imagination of present-day anti-Semites cannot compete with the handiwork of Israel and its emissaries the settlers in Hebron for the past 20 years. By Amira Hass | Feb. 25, 2015 | http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.644080 The sickest imagination of present-day…
Jibril, left, lost two of his four grandchildren to hypothermia in the storms last month. The family now live in a tiny plastic-covered wooden structure in Beit Hanoun with a blanket for a door. Photograph:…
Site will lead to removal of 120 Bedouin from area; this is first time since 1991 that private Palestinian land in East Jerusalem has been expropriated. By Nir Hasson | Feb. 18, 2015 | 6:33…
A new bipartisan bill engineered by AIPAC was introduced in Congress yesterday that ties the rejection of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel to future U.S. trade agreements with the European Union. H.R.825,…
Mick Bowman during his arrest A human rights campaigner from Tyneside claims he was beaten and stood on after being arrested during a protest in Palestine. Mick Bowman, 57, from Throckley, also says he was…
I’m confused. Very, very confused. Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says his country is in imminent danger of being nuked off the face of the earth by Iran. But he wants every Jew to flee…
Nearly two million Gazans are living in a state of poverty and shortages, with few options of leaving and even fewer options for work. Nearly two million people who live in a giant prison, and…
An education system that brings an inherently violent organization in through the front door is failing at its most basic obligation. This policy is the first injection of militarism, ultimately meant to prevent our children…
British Prime Minister David Cameron announced the eight joint British-Israeli medical research projects to receive over £3m in British funding in 2015 via the BIRAX Regenerative Medicine Initiative. Not only are Israeli universities not held…
In this June 4, 2012 file photo, Jewish settlers march during a demonstration against the proposed decision to evacuate a West Bank outpost in the Ulpana neighborhood, in the West Bank settlement of Beit El…
Published time: February 08, 2015 09:23 Edited time: February 09, 2015 07:03 Get short URL A Palestinian Bedouin near his dwelling that was demolished by Israeli bulldozers near the Jewish settlement of Karmel, near the…
Submitted by Charlotte Silver on Thu, 02/12/2015 – 21:58 230814_mo_00_1.jpg Children injured in an Israeli airstrike receive treatment at a hospital in Gaza City, 23 August 2014. (Mohammed Asad / APA images) The National Lawyers…
As the editor of a progressive Jewish and interfaith magazine that has often articulated views that have prompted condemnation from both Right and Left, I had good reason to be scared by the murders of…