“Perhaps the time has come for Palestinians and justice-loving Israelis to imagine a new future,” wrote South African intellectuals and academics, Na’eem Jeenah and Salim Vally, in their essay, “Beyond Ethnic Nationalism: Lessons from South Africa”. This “new future”, according to Jeenah and Vally, “will begin to be built when […]
Two Jordanians are being humiliated in Israeli administrative detention
Two Jordanians are languishing in the legal limbo of Israeli administrative detention, the first time any of the kingdom’s citizens have been held under the much-criticised pretext, their relatives have told Middle East Eye. Heba al-Labadi, 24, and Abdelrahman Meri, 29, were arrested separately and put under administrative detention, a […]
Israel and torturing women
On one of the days of her interrogation by the Shin Bet security service in July 2018, Dina Karmi of Hebron felt twice she was fainting. “The first time she was taken to be examined by a doctor, who she said told the interrogators she was stronger than he was, […]
A bloody history of the Israeli occupation
Since March 2018, weekly protests – known as the Great March of Return – have been held in Gaza. The demonstrators are insisting that people uprooted by Zionist forces during the Nakba – the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine – be allowed to go home. This right of return has […]
BDS and Criticism of Israel
In the face of criticism which delegitimizes Israel’s right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people, the ministry’s report is a starting point. In recent days, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry published a report documenting some 100 examples in which activities of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign […]
Gaza Strip Next Year
Children swimming next to sewage drains on the beach, fishermen throwing their nets into contaminated water, wastewater leaking into the street. These scenes exemplify the water and electricity crisis in Gaza, where a harrowing prediction could soon become reality. In 2015, a report published by the United Nations Conference on Trade […]
Congresswoman Betty McCollum stands up to AIPAC defending Palestinians’ rights.
Her name is Betty McCollum, and she has represented St. Paul for almost 20 years. Become a founding member President Donald Trump — who loves to attack Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), one of the first Muslim congresswomen, for her criticism of Israel — has never once tweeted McCollum’s name. That […]
Israeli occupation’s violent crimes against Palestinians.
Palestinian citizens of Israel escalated their protests against the police and government on Thursday by bringing sections of the country’s busiest highway to a crawl as they drove in a slow convoy towards Jerusalem for a major demonstration. It was the latest in a series of high-stakes confrontations by Israel’s large […]
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