It is possibly Israel’s darkest secret, in a country whose short history is replete with dark episodes. Last month Tzachi Hanegbi, minister for national security, became the first government official to admit that hundreds of babies had been stolen from their mothers in the years immediately following Israel’s creation in 1948. In truth, the number is more likely to be in the thousands.
The United States applies pressure on countries all over the world, including sanctions on Iraq that killed 500,000 children. Yet any boycott of Israel is treated as terrorism or an inappropriate attempt to impose a solution from outside. Even some Israeli Jews are calling for boycott.
Ma‘an reports: Israeli forces expelled a Palestinian family of 10 from their home in the village of Harmala in the southern occupied West Bank Saturday evening, in order to use the house as an Israeli military post.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heightened his row with international charities operating in Gaza in a video Thursday where he announced, “Israel cares more about Palestinians than their own leaders do.”
Under the auspices of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, nearly 300 Jews with varying positions on Israel marched together last Thursday night in support of Black Lives Matter. But can that community be sustained?
Gaza painter Basel El-Maqosui’s time as artist-in-resident in Connecticut has transformed his art. He had only dreamed of using pink in a war zone.
In what witnesses describe as a targeted attack, Imam Alauddin Akhonji of Al-Furqan Jame Masjid Mosque in Ozone Park, Queens, was killed this afternoon walking home from afternoon prayers. The New York Post reports authorities are investigating it as a hate crime, and some residents are blaming Donald Trump.
Mary al Atrash, the Palestinian swimmer, finished third in her heat in the 50 meter freestyle yesterday in Rio but her time wasn’t good enough to enter the semifinals. And despite a propaganda explosion by Israel, Atrash could not train at a full-sized pool in Jerusalem because checkpoints would have made the trip too difficult and time consuming to even try.
Ahmad Dawabsha, the five-year-old sole survivor of an arson attack in the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus last year, was taken to Israel’s Tel Hashomer hospital Wednesday night after his health deteriorated.
Jews for Palestinian right of return celebrate Movement for Black Lives: Your internationalism echoes Malcolm X, SNCC, the Black Panther Party, Muhammad Ali, and other freedom fighters of the 1960s who stood in solidarity with Palestine. It recalls Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s opposition to the Vietnam war