Palestine Blogs

By David Hartsough When some people think of Palestine and Israel, they often picture Palestinians as suicide bombers and terrorists while the Israeli military are seen as bombing whole...

Russell Tribunal on Palestine concludes the EU should sanction Israel until violations stop.

by Kim Bizzarri Following last night’s choice of the Oscars’ jury to award Katherine Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker with the Best Picture prize, the debate has since then moved to the pubs and the ether....

In the village of Nebi Salah, 14 year old Ehab Fadel Beir Ghouthi from Beit Rima was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head. He was taken to a hospital where he underwent emergency...

Last week, Norman Finkelstein delivered a series of lectures in Prague as part of his European speaking tour. Finkelstein was initially invited to speak at the prestigious Czech Academy of Sciences...

by As`ad AbuKhalil   The assassination of Mahmoud Mabhouh, a Hamas commander, in Dubai is a watershed moment in the long history of the Mossad. Israeli officials who ordered the assassination did...

Taher Herzalla is a third-year political science major at UC Riverside and was part of the “Irvine 11″ that protested Michael Oren’s recent address. Taher is himself originally from...

by David Cronin One of the pitfalls of specialising in European politics, as I have for the past 15 years, is that certain assumptions become hardwired in your brain.  For a long time, my critical...

An edited version of this review appeared at the Electronic Intifada. “From afar,” writes Ramzy Baroud (founder of the indispensable Palestine Chronicle), “Gaza’s reality, like that of all of...

John Holmes, the United Nation’s humanitarian chief, has revisited the Gaza Strip, a year after Israel’s assault on the territory ended. He told Al Jazeera that it was disappointing how...

Although the International Day of Action on Feb 25th has passed, this video for the campaign is an excellent reminder of the apartheid and hardships Palestinians face in trying to live normal lives:...

by Raymond Deane A European country that scapegoats a Semitic people, persecutes defenders of human rights by stripping them of employment, and denies freedom of speech to Jews: surely a description...

This review was written for the Palestine Chronicle. This is not what you expect: an accomplished and self-reflective work of history enclosed within a layer of war reportage – in comic book form....

William A. Cook provides an overview of the state of affairs of the zionist affairs of state, in a piece entitled The Unstated Script of the Wiesel Open Letter to President Obama. It is a good...

by Jeff Halper The Israeli attack on Gaza in December 2008/January 2009 was not merely a military assault on a primarily civilian population, impoverished and the victim of occupation and besiegement...

From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee website: Dear Friends and Supporters, It has been two months now since I was handcuffed, blindfolded and taken from my home. Today news has reached...

Urbicide by worming: the zionist entity’s cutting edge in military strategy.

In a recent post on Israel’s PR campaign, Tali Shapiro mentioned an article “about something called the “Jewish Values Lobby” trying to get employers in Zefed to force “Arab”...

BURLINGTON, VT- Greetings from the Green Mountain State! I want to give a shout out to those who participated in a successful night of activism. Several activists leafleted 249 people attending last...

J Street's problem isn't what it is—it's what it isn't.