Israeli investigators threatened to rape Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed al-Qiq, his wife and children, according to his lawyer, Ashraf Abu Sneineh. Last November the detained journalist said ‘I have nothing to confess to and I don’t want to continue this investigation in this manner.’ So they threatened to rape him, his wife and his kids.” He then launched a hunger strike; 84 days later he is on the verge of death.
The Henry Jackson Society has been exposed for its efforts to smear Noam Chomsky. What is salient about the professional Chomsky hounders though is how little error they uncover. It is because they are not engaged in criticism, in the inspection of whether his arguments hold up against the evidence. They are simply practitioners of vilification.
We Are Not Numbers is welcoming its new “class” of promising Palestinian young writers in the Gaza Strip. The 24 writers are enjoying their orientation workshops and will be assigned their international mentors soon, starting their journey of writing their own history.
Hatim Kanaaneh was grateful to see the New Yorker publish big pieces on Palestinian Israelis Ayman Odeh and Sayed Kashua, but the pieces left a bitter aftertaste. Authors David Remnick and Ruth Margalit seize on their subjects as evidence of a democratic and inclusive Israel
Roger Waters responds to Paul Bronfman’s threat to withdraw gifts from York University in Toronto over a mural showing Palestinian resistance by explaining that the Jewish community is shifting away from the “hatred” and “bigotry” expressed in Bronfman’s letter to the school
After the Israeli Supreme Court rejected Mohammad Al-Qiq’s appeal to move to a Palestinian hospital in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, out of the Israeli institution where he is being held, former hunger striker Ayman Sharawna said: “The court decision is a death sentence…. They’d rather have him dead than free.”
After international furor over a video showing an Israeli soldier upending a Palestinian man, Majid al-Fakhouri, from his wheelchair on Sunday in Hebron, Israelis have launched an investigation while “hasbara” apologists have concocted a video purporting to show that al-Fakhouri was holding a gun– in fact a crutch.
At a town hall in South Carolina last night on MSNBC, Donald Trump said the Israel/Palestine deal was the toughest agreement in the world to pull off, it might be impossible to make a deal, so he had to be neutral on the question. Then he twice smeared Palestinians, saying they were brought up as children to hate Jews.
A campaign by Arab LGBTQ+ activists sparks conversation about gay rights in the Middle East. It is led by anonymous Saudi activists
Why is Dan Shapiro, US ambassador to Israel, displaying a religious symbol, a star of David, on his Facebook page?