Being Pro-Humanity gets you fired in Israel

“Yad Vashem talks about the Holocaust survivors’ arrival in Israel and about creating a refuge here for the world’s Jews. I said there were people who lived on this land and mentioned that there are other traumas that provide other nations with motivation,” Shapira said.
“The Holocaust moved us to establish a Jewish state and the [...]

More support for Palestine

Sevilla striker Fredi Kanoute was booked for making a political statement in favour of Palestine after scoring against Deportivo La Coruna

Israel bombs two UN sponsored school

Medical officials say the death toll from an Israeli airstrike outside a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip has risen to 30.
The attack occurred about 10 yards (meters) outside the school in northern Gaza. It was the second deadly Israeli attack to strike a UN school in the past few hours.
Hospital director Bassam Abu [...]

Gaza: the logic of colonial power

As so often, the term ‘terrorism’ has proved a rhetorical smokescreen under cover of which the strong crush the weak

Israel attacks boat of medical supplies while yellings “terrorist”

An Israeli patrol boat struck a boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies to Gaza early Tuesday as it attempted to intercept the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, witnesses and Israeli officials said.
CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, Gibraltar-registered pleasure boat Dignity when the contact occurred. When the boat later docked in the Lebanese [...]

The Latest Pictures from the Bombing of Gaza

All this talk of “Hamas getting ready to attack”

Health Ministry official Moawiya Hassanain said at least 120 people were killed and more than 250 wounded.
Israel decided that they didn’t like have a truce, that they didn’t want to have peace and launched a massive airstrike . The first air strikes took place as children were leaving school.

Is Israel planning another Sabra and Shatila?

Immediately before and after the massacres at the the refugee camps all foreign workers and journalists were barred from entering. This week Israel has barred all journalists from gaza, can we expect another massacre?
The Associated press and the BBC have both reported that they have been denied entry and that one French was barred from [...]

The Qibya Massacre 55 years later

Bullet-riddled bodies near the doorways and multiple bullet hits on the doors of the demolished houses indicated that the inhabitants had been forced to remain inside until their homes were blown up over them
Witnesses were uniform in describing their experience as a night of horror, during which Israel soldiers moved about in their village blowing [...]

Palestine Remembered : 60 Years Later

Ten facts about the Nakba

Palestinian women walk through the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Lebanon in 1951. (UNRWA)

“We thought it would be a matter of weeks, only until the fighting died down. Of course, we were never allowed to go home.” Nina Saah, Washington, DC
“My family’s farm of oranges, grapefruits and lemons, centuries old, [...]