The New York Times bows to pressure from Jewish press by making a crucial edit and “correction” of an article about the presence of Jewish temples on the present site of the al Aqsa plaza.
Sarah Aziza says that at times like this being a Palestinian means being always in the midst of a conversation no one else can hear.
A “son of Palestine” was mourned by thousands today: 14-year-old Ahmad Sharaka, was killed by Israeli soldiers on Sunday. He had been taking part in the ongoing confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth near the Beit El settlement colony in the occupied West Bank
An analysis of last month of New York Times articles reveals that references to occupation are a stock phrase for the West Bank. The articles are almost devoid of any context of what Palestinians are experiencing in East Jerusalem, and readers are left with the sense that there is simply a conflict over holy sites.
Photographer Anne Paq writes from the occupied West Bank: “The decades-long humiliation of Palestinians by their occupiers is very well understood and felt by these youths. This generation of youth, that is less dependent on the usual party lines and on the Palestinian Authority, does not want to take it any longer, and why should they? What do they have to lose, when their future that the Israelis and the international community plan for them is not theirs? The path of the revolt, even difficult, will be their own.”
The liberal Zionist group J Street is not serious about peace because it cannot call the settlements “illegal” let alone call for US sanctions against colonization.
Dorgham Abusalim deconstructs Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens’ latest column claims to share, “the truth about why Palestinians have been seized by their present blood lust.”
Hillary Clinton’s shocking statement yesterday sympathizing with Israeli Jewish victims of attacks and saying nothing about Palestinian victims is actually reflective of American press coverage. Mainstream news sites continue to emphasize Jewish victims over Palestinian victims, and leave out the larger context of the conflict, Israeli occupation and the hatred it is producing, on both sides.
Sheldon Adelson, who wants to nuke Iran, is reportedly close to endorsing Marco Rubio for president. And Donald Trump warns that Adelson will make Rubio his “perfect little puppet”
Like their parents’ generation, the thousands of Palestinian youth in Jerusalem, Gaza, Ramallah, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jaffa, Nazareth and elsewhere who have taken to the streets in large protests against Israel’s occupation and apartheid are first and foremost shaking off despair and liberating their minds of the myth of oppression as fate. The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the Palestinian leadership of the global BDS movement, calls on people of conscience around the world to support Palestinians in their quest for freedom at this crucial moment by stepping up BDS activities against Israel’s regime of oppression.