The Palestine Information Center (PIC), an independent Palestinian news website and network had their Facebook page temporarily suspended for publishing a 2009 cartoon by Brazilian political cartoonist Carlos Latuff.
A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth’s survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Nazareth was not only an anomaly; it was a mistake. The reason for Nazareth’s survival are the actions of one individual. Ben Dunkelman, a Canadian Jew who was the commander of the Israeli army’s Seventh Armoured Brigade, disobeyed orders to expel Nazareth’s residents. Dunkelman’s role has been largely obscured in the historical record – and for good reason. Israel would prefer that observers make an unjustified assumption: that “Christian” Nazareth survived, unlike other Palestinian cities, because its leaders were less militant or because they preferred to surrender. Dunkelman’s story proves that was not the case.
Palestinian activists are gathering in front of checkpoint 56 at the entrance to Shuhada Street in Hebron to stage a sit-in protest. The protest will be ongoing, continuing 24 hours a day. Youth Against Settlements member Issa Amro says: “The families are protesting because they want to live in peace and equality without checkpoints, closures, restrictions, and attacks by settlers and the military. We refuse to be registered as numbers and have our human rights violated just because we are Palestinian.”
In a West Bank village under siege that has just buried four young men killed by Israeli soldiers, an American reporter glimpses the depth of Palestinian resistance
A group of UK activists decided there needed to be an alternative to Birthright, a trip for people sick of Zionism’s stranglehold on Jewish culture. So last year they took a bunch of amazing people to Spain to learn about Jewish culture outside of Israel. They called it Birthwrong and it was pretty great. Watch a video about the trip.
On Thursday January 8, a group of 40 retired Brazilian diplomats signed a statement against Israel’s appointment of Mr. Dani Dayan for the Israeli Embassy in Brazil. The statement criticizes the way Dayan was announced and his role in the settlement movement, which the diplomats view as an affront to Brazil’s positions against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
As Israel wins on the military and diplomatic battlefield, their propaganda battle is already lost.
The US government is backing a brutal war on Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East. It has been for more than nine months. You wouldn’t know that from the US Palestinian solidarity movement though. It has largely remained silent.
Ben Gurion Airport is known for nightmarish stories of harassment and humiliation. But when Adam Horowitz, an American Jew, enters Israeli border control, he is barely asked a question.
Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinian youths from the West Bank village of Sa’ir Thursday, including Khalil Muhammad al-Shalalda, whose brother Mahmoud al-Shalalda was killed in clashes in the village two months ago.