For weeks we have warned that Trump may be planning an attack on Iran. VP Mike Pence and Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked Trump out of an atttack lasst week. The press finally informs us.
Many Palestinians living under occupation are outraged by the the recent normalization deals between Israel and Arab nations, but are finding very little direction from their leaders on how to fight this latest affront to their freedom struggle.
A Georgia state legislator who has pushed the anti-boycott law in that state testified that the Israeli consulate “asked me” to make changes in the legislation. She appeared at the hearing with an Israeli consular officer seated at her side, and introduced him to the legislative committee.
Despite being been stuck living between COVID-19 and the Israeli occupation, Palestinians have come up with unique and creative solutions to the problems that they’ve faced because of the coronavirus. In this final episode of our COVID-19 series in Palestine, we’re showcasing Palestinians who responded to the coronavirus pandemic using innovation and creativity as a way to help their communities adapt to the crisis around them.
41 Democratic congress members have signed a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, condemning Israeli’s demolition of a West Bank village and demanding to know whether U.S. equipment was used.
PA officials announced on Tuesday that they received assurances that Israel was “committed” to upholding its end of agreements with the Palestinians, and that the decision to resume coordination was made following “international talks” being conducted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. There is speculation that the impending change in U.S. administrations, along with the severe financial pressure the Palestinian Authority finds itself under, is what motivated Palestinian leadership to resume relations with Israel.
A group of Israeli settlers have squatted at the site of Sa-Nur, an illegal West Bank settlement that was evacuated in 2005, in an attempt to resettle the area. “This settlement has been empty for 15 years, and it’s against Israeli law for them to be here,” Tawfeeq Alawneh, the mayor of the nearby Palestinian village of Jaba’, told Mondoweiss. “But at the end of the day we know that the soldiers and the government will always protect and help the settlers.”
Elections in the U.S. can have massive impacts across the world. So, what do the recent results mean for us in Gaza?
Instead of targeting the real source of antisemitism in the United States — white supremacy — proposed revisions to California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum target Palestinian children and their families.
Perpetual handmaidens of the far-right, pro-Israel groups are not simply willing to dehumanize Palestinians by stigmatizing basic empathy with their plight. Now, as the Senate run-off in Georgia shows, they are willing to sacrifice fundamental progressive goals to preserve uncritical loyalty to Israel.
A Georgia state legislator who has pushed the anti-boycott law in that state testified that the Israeli consulate “asked me” to make changes in the legislation. She appeared at the hearing with an Israeli consular officer seated at her side, and introduced him to the legislative committee.
More than a dozen filmmakers have honored a call by Queer Palestinians to withdraw from TLVFest, the Israeli government-partnered LGBT film festival, over its role in the Israeli government’s pinkwashing agenda.
Who is allowed to discuss the Jewish narrative of Zionism in Berlin? Apparently, not Israelis as Germany tests its first case of a new anti-BDS law, surprisingly targeting a group of Israeli artists.
For weeks we have warned that Trump may be planning an attack on Iran. VP Mike Pence and Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked Trump out of an atttack lasst week. The press finally informs us.
The New York Times is publishing a misleading report on its front page that further raises the risk that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu could provoke a conflict with Iran during the Trump administration’s final 66 days.
The New York Times buries the report that Defense Department officials worry that Trump might order American troops to fire weapons at Iran. While Elliott Abrams is in the Mideast, pushing for a “flood” of new sanctions on Iran.
In its sixth year, the Leeds Palestinian Film Festival will feature discussions with filmmakers Annemarie Jacir and Saeed Taji Farouky, as well as a panel discussion including US filmmaker and social-justice activist Dr. Alice Rothchild to accompany the UK Premiere of documentary Jews Step Forward.
Susan Abulhawa says the Palestine Writes Literature Festival is a moment for Palestinian writers to demonstrate that “the power of culture is stronger than the culture of power.” Said Abulhawa, “As those with extraordinary political, economic and military force shrink the land beneath our feet, we will definitely expand our cultural and intellectual presence in the world.”
In Yishai Sarid’s novel, Israelis act out rituals of grief and mourning for the Holocaust and come away repulsed by their ancestors, the victims of a horrific genocide, and admiring of the Nazis in their “Hugo Boss” uniforms. “That’s what we should do to the Arabs,” one whispers. Yet US media have failed to grasp the novel’s moral about Palestinian dehumanization.
