March 1st, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Sunday, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while declaring that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
As he approached the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell of San...
March 1st, 20240
On Thursday, Israeli occupation forces fired on a crowd of Palestinians racing to get food off an aid convoy in Gaza City, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza to more than 30,000, according to health officials. Israel said many of the dead were trampled...
February 16th, 20240UNITED NATIONS – On Tuesday, the United Nations warned against an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, saying an offensive could "lead to a slaughter" in the southern region of the Palestinian enclave where more than 1 million people are sheltering.
Israel says it wants to flush out Hamas militants from hideouts in...
February 13th, 20240It seemed strange, if not out of context, when Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin told Arutz Sheva-Israel National News that “Muslims are not afraid of us anymore.”
Feiglin’s comments were made on October 25, less than three weeks following the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the genocidal Israeli war which...
January 12th, 20240Letter to the editor:
The government of South Africa — whose people know a thing or two about the evils of apartheid — is charging Israel with the crime of genocide before the International Court of Justice. Israeli spokespersons and apologists may scream and howl in protest, but, as Pretoria’s legal brief documents, the...
January 5th, 20240WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South Africa launched genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice over Israel's military operation in the Palestinian enclave.
"Those are allegations that should not be...
December 20th, 20230When Zionist militias, using advanced Western arms, conquered historic Palestine in 1947-48, they expressed their victory through the deliberate humiliation of Palestinians.
Much of that humiliation targeted women, in particular, knowing how the dishonor of Palestinian females represents, according to Arab culture, a sense of dishonor...
December 15th, 20230On Wednesday, Israelis said that their army should not back off its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N. General Assembly's ceasefire call, the growing list of troop casualties and a spiraling Palestinian death toll in Gaza.
Israel's military suffered one of the deadliest days in the two-month-old Gaza war on Tuesday,...
December 8th, 20230A growing number of Americans are donning the keffiyeh, the distinctive patterned scarf that's closely linked with Palestinians, to demand a ceasefire to Israel's attacks on Gaza or to signal their support for Palestinians.
Sales of the scarves have jumped since the Israel war on Gaza that began in October, U.S. distributors say, even...
December 1st, 20230GENEVA — More people could die from disease than from bombings in the Gaza Strip if its health system is not repaired, a World Health Organization spokesperson said, warning of a surge in infectious diseases and diarrhea in children.
In figures deemed reliable by the United Nations, Gaza health authorities say more than 15,000 people...
November 24th, 20230By Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo
For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South.
And since national liberation movements were, per definition, the struggle for indigenous people to assert their collective...
November 3rd, 20230WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Republican plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel and cut funding of the Internal Revenue Service, despite Democrats' insistence it has no future in the Senate and the White House's promise of a veto.
The measure passed 226 to 196, largely along party...
October 27th, 20230
By Rowaida Abdelaziz/ Huffpost
Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers signed a letter Thursday urging Congress to back a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in light of “anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian sentiment on the rise nationwide.”
The letter, which HuffPost has learned has been signed by 411...
July 22nd, 20230On Wednesday, the U.S. and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), setting the conditions for Israel’s entry into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program.
An Israeli statement late on Wednesday quoted its national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi as saying U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides and Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog signed what...
July 13th, 20230The deadly Israeli invasion of Jenin on July 3 was not a surprise.
Also, unsurprising is the fact that the killing of 12 Palestinians, wounding of 120 more and the destruction of nearly 80 percent of the Jenin Refugee Camp’s homes and infrastructure will not make an iota of a difference.
Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
June 29th, 20230By Ramzy Baroud
On June 19, a large Israeli military force raided the northern Palestinian town and refugee camp of Jenin from multiple directions. Not only did the raid fail, it backfired, and it also created a precedent in Israel’s decades-long war on the ever-rebellious Palestinian region.
Israel killed eight Palestinians and...
June 21st, 20230Palestinians in the towns of Ramallah and Al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank announced a comprehensive strike and day of rage Wednesday afternoon to be observed on Thursday, June 22, in response to Israeli settler attacks on Turmusaya and to mourn the souls of the Palestinians that were slaughtered.
At around lunchtime on Wednesday...
March 10th, 20230The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.”
That was the summary of a news report...
December 21st, 20220On Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu said he had secured a deal to form a new Israeli government after weeks of unexpectedly tough negotiations with religious and far-right coalition partners.
"I have managed (to form a government)," Netanyahu said on Twitter, minutes before a midnight deadline set by Israeli President Isaac Herzog. A...
August 7th, 20220Israel and Palestinian soldiers agreed to a Cairo-mediated truce to take effect late on Sunday, sources said, raising hopes of an end to the most serious flare-up on the Gaza frontier in more than a year.
Israeli forces pounded Palestinian targets through the weekend, triggering longer-range rocket attacks against its cities and...
September 4th, 20210Israel and its Zionist supporters do not hesitate to peddle propaganda claiming that it is “the Middle East’s sole democracy.” According to them, Israel is a unique sanctuary of democracy, freedom and pluralism that protects its citizens’ rights. But this is an outright lie. Democracy in Israel only applies to Jewish Israelis,...
November 5th, 20200Where is the hope for the Middle East? No matter how hard we try, it is hard to find grounds for optimism about the future of this troubled region.
The Middle East has been a focus of American foreign policy for decades. The time, talent and resources that the United States has spent on challenges in the Middle East are staggering,...
June 28th, 20200NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Israel on Wednesday to abandon plans to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank, warning this threatened prospects for peace with the Palestinians.
“If implemented, annexation would constitute a most serious violation of international law, grievously harm the...
April 22nd, 20200It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel’s Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come.
In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political...
February 7th, 20200RAMALLAH, West Bank – At least two Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank and 16 Israelis were hurt on Thursday in a surge of violence that erupted amid Palestinian anger at a U.S. peace plan.
In Jerusalem, an Arab citizen of Israel was killed after he shot and slightly wounded an Israeli paramilitary border policeman at...
November 19th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration changed the U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Monday, reversing four decades of American policy and further undermining the effort to gain Palestinian statehood.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is repudiating the 1978 State Department...
August 10th, 20190BEIRUT - On top of being refugees who have been displaced twice, Palestinian refugees who previously resided in Syria and fled the war to Lebanon have been rejected entry visas to visit Mecca for the holy pilgrimage.
Tens of Palestinian refugees with "stateless" passports from Syria have been denied the chance to perform Hajj by Saudi...
June 16th, 20190In a TV interview on June 2, on the news docuseries “Axios” on the HBO channel, Jared Kushner opened up regarding many issues, in which his “Deal of the Century” was a prime focus.
The major revelation made by Kushner, President Trump’s adviser and son-in-law, was least surprising. Kushner believes that Palestinians are not...