Silencing lawyers and other voices of justice is just another sign the state of Israel is not the democracy it claims to be.
Ron DeSantis visited Israel four times in recent years — the sum total of his official foreign visits. He’s trying to put Trump and the Democrats in a bind on blind support for the “Jewish state.”
2022 was the deadliest year for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in decades. We kept a record of all those who were killed by Israeli state and settler violence. These are their names, faces, and stories.
Fired by The Hill TV for a commentary supporting Rashida Tlaib on the apartheid accusation against Israel and calling for Americans to dismantle apartheid, independent journalist Katie Halper has now published that commentary. Halper’s monologue is racking up views (20,000 so far today) and hundreds of supportive comments. The case reflects growing support for Palestinian rights among the young, and is reminiscent of the firing of Marc Lamont Hill by CNN four years ago for voicing support for Palestinian freedom.
To me Hafez’s story is the embodiment of Israeli apartheid, and the themes I’ve covered for so many years reporting on the ground in occupied Palestine. It’s a story of violence, injustice, inequity, and a yearning for freedom in a place where oppression reigns supreme.
Ran Greenstein argues that Palestinians will not be able to challenge Israel as an oppressive ethnonational state in the same manner that South Africans did.
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari discusses the first report of the Pillay Commission into the “underlying root causes of recurrent tensions” in Palestine.
Learn what Apartheid means and how it applies to Israel’s control over Palestinian lives whether located inside Israel, the occupied Palestinian territory, or the Palestinian diaspora.
Michael Lynk reflects on his time as UN Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territories.
Aida Touma-Sliman, a Palestinian member of Knesset, explains how Israeli apartheid impacts Palestinian citizens of Israel.