The Summer on the Issawiya under the Occupation

Israeli forces inflicted a summer of “arrests, violence, and raids” on the Palestinian residents of Issawiya, occupied East Jerusalem, according to human rights organisation B’Tselem. Over three months – June to August – Israeli police conducted a campaign which “included daily law enforcement and collective punishment raids, ostensibly in response […]

While Palestinians continue to be targeted by “Israel”, it’s the israelis who claim to be unsafe and victimised

The Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is being built largely on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, once more underscores the ugliness of military occupation. As such, it truly epitomises the nature of Israeli apartheid and also delineates the siege-driven, isolationist mentality that dominates the ruling-class thinking […]

Interior minister plans to deport Palestinian BDS founder

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri announced on Sunday that he had directed the Population and Immigration Authority to prepare a legal opinion to be used in the deportation of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions founder Omar Barghouti. Barghouti holds Israeli permanent residency status, which he obtained after marrying an Arab Israeli woman, […]