Intense heat, insect infestations, and boredom are some of the descriptions of government-run coronavirus isolation centers in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians who were recently released from and are still under quarantine.
European Court of Human Rights decision has major implications for anti-BDS state repression in Europe including Germany, where advocates for Palestinian rights face fierce restrictions on their civil rights.
The US and Israel are stepping up their attacks on the International Criminal Court as its chief prosecutor finally looks poised finally to give the court some teeth. Fatou Bensouda is threatening to investigate the two states whose actions have been particularly damaging to international law in the modern era.
Israel is about to jeopardize its support in the Democratic Party by annexing parts of West Bank, but Netanyahu is going ahead evidently with Trump’s blessing. And a fire set by the Israeli military in Jordan Valley last week shows the plan to confiscate more Palestinian land, says journalist Alex Fishman of Ynet on call with Israel Policy Forum.
A desperate Donald Trump might attack Iran to restore his popularity. Would the mainstream U.S. media let him get away with it?
The peaceful serenity of the cover image of the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” glosses over the Israeli theft and control of Palestinian land and resources.
Michael Arria speaks with Adalah Justice Project Executive Director Sandra Tamari and Black for Palestine co-founder Khury Petersen-Smith about how the Palestine Solidarity Movement can stand in solidarity with the movement for Black lives.
The American Jewish Committee is indicating that it will do nothing to criticize Israeli annexation. Its ceo, David Harris, won’t even call it annexation, but “extension of Israeli sovereign law.”
It’s been 53 years since Israel won 1967 war, and David Harris of the AJC expresses the mythic views of that war he held at 18, when it happened: that Israel faced a second Holocaust and annihilation, and acted in self-defense. Historians have thoroughly revised these distortions.
The inextricable similarity between the murders of George Floyd and Eyad El-Halaq has reinvigorated the longtime bond between the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the fight for black liberation in the US.