Palestine Blogs

Israeli land seizure and ethnic cleansing should be met with arrest warrants – not arms sales and diplomatic games. The Jordan Valley, stretching all the way down the West Bank’s eastern side,...

Most of the reports and information taken from the websites Friends of Freedom and Justice- Bilin, Anarchists Against the Wall and the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Two Palestinians...

The Irish continue to put the world to shame with their fighting spirit and devotion to justice. From the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign: On the afternoon of Thursday 12th August 2010, the...

Parody of Video Killed the Radio Star (the Buggles) by Minor Demographic Threat. Lyrics over the fold. [video link] Lyrics You had them on your wireless saying, ‘Death to Jews’ You sliced...

A short documentary about the Hampshire College campaign for divestment from the occupation of Palestine. Hampshire is often credited with being the first US college to divest for the occupation, and...

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Mosaic Intelligence Report: 2010 is far from over, yet the Middle East has witnessed a series of close encounters with major wars. What are Arabs afraid of? And why is Barack Obama’s popularity...

A recent appearance on RT by author and independent journalist, Jonathan Cook. Based out of Nazareth, Cook is among the best investigative reporters focusing on Israel and the occupied Palestinian...

Tony Judt, a towering intellect, a moral giant, and a master of prose, has passed on. He did what only the greatest of thinkers do: he constantly evolved. More significantly, he never succumbed to...

For more on Israel’s illegal settlements, see this recent talk by Israeli-American academic and activist, Jeff Halper. Al Jazeera — Israel has demolished more than 20,000 Palestinian...

by Tony Karon In 2003, the United States launched an unprovoked invasion of Iraq, a country that had neither attacked nor threatened it — and we, and the Iraqis, are still living with the...

Local health officials in Gaza say that millions of dollars in medication donated by the international community ultimately ends up  as trash because 70 % of it is unusable. Doctors claim that...

The August issue of the London Review of Books has several excellent articles including one by well-known Israeli writer and peace activist, Uri Avnery. Avnery defines himself as a post-Zionist (in...

Excerpts of a recent talk by American-Israeli Professor and co-founder/coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Jeff Halper. Halper is among the most important voices...

Escalating criticism of Israel led its security establishment to declare a pr war on “delegitimization” (more excellent reports by Lia Tarachansky here). After Israel’s major attack...

by Max Blumenthal AL-ARAKIB, ISRAEL — On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a...

The Zionist colonization of Palestine continues, and here is what the ethnic cleansing looks like. (via Mondoweiss)

A moving upcoming documentary by young journalist-filmmaker Fida Qishta, set to the haunting music of Marcel Khalife and the title inspired by the line in a Mahmoud Darwish poem. The film’s...

Intelligent activism results in things like the Veritas Handbook (available for free download) to counter the constant flow of misinformation that dominates discussions about Israel and Palestine...