Palestine & Zionism

Walz allows for Harris to “turn a corner” in her policy on the war in Gaza, said James Zogby, president of Arab American Institute.

Ahead of the recent French elections, pundits widely expected voters to punish France Insoumise for its strong pro-Gaza stance. It didn’t happen. Around Europe, left-wing voters are galvanized by parties who defy the pro-Israel mainstream.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s reckless assassination of Ismail Haniyeh undermines the prospects for a peace deal and the release of the hostages.

The U.N. report found evidence of sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs against detainees, many of whom were deprived of food, water, sleep, and toilet access.

Constant Israeli evacuation orders and attacks on humanitarian zones in Gaza have forced  2.1 million people into 14% of the strip's land. At the same time, restricted border crossings and the targeting of aid workers makes it even harder for NGOs to carry out life-saving work.

The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza

The Israeli army committed another massacre against displaced Palestinians in tent encampments, this time in the coastal Mawasi area, which Israel had designated as a “safe zone.”

Thousands of protesters plan to demand a “citizen’s arrest” of Netanyahu for committing crimes against humanity.

"We are seeing frequent allegations of Palestinian children being detained on their way home from school, or shot while walking on the street," said the U.N. agency.

Some of us didn't need an ICJ ruling to figure that out

Top UN court says Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories should be brought to an end 'as rapidly as possible'

Tomorrow, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Listen to this hearing from that trial:  "Palestine… | 84 comments on LinkedIn

🚨Breaking: Historical Verdict by the International Court of Justice (ICJ): Free Palestine now and pay reparation for the 57 years of occupation. International… | 203 comments on LinkedIn

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivers its Advisory Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.1 The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,2 the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,3 which found claims of data fabrication implausible.

By dismantling UNRWA the Israel is seeking to eliminate the Palestinian right of return to their homeland and to liquidate their cause, in addition to depriving millions from their basic rights

Three days ago, Israel’s leading newspaper, Haaretz, published the results of its thorough, comprehensive investigation into what actually

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that is likely to worsen already soaring tensions linked to the war in Gaza.

The silence of the US medical establishment amid the genocide is manifest hypocrisy, says Yassar Arain.

Humanitarian aid should never be politicised though, quite often, the very survival of nations is used as political bargaining chips. Sadly, Gaza remains

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The terrorism allegations were false, but the nonprofit still lost access to banking and financial tools.

Saturday was a gloriously beautiful spring day in Chicago, and as I wandered into the “Liberation Zone” which has taken over DePaul University’s quad, a kind lady asked me if I would like some lunc…

At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.

Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has always been Israeli policy. Here, we present a brief history of the past year.

The U.S. State Department found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in incidents that took place outside of Gaza before conflict broke out between Israel and Hamas in October, the State Department said on Monday.

"But… did he say it on a college campus? Otherwise, it's just not news. Sorry, them's the rules," said one journalist sardonically.

Both the police crackdowns at Columbia University and elsewhere, and the propaganda that enabled it resembled scenes from an authoritarian foreign country. So we wrote about them as if they were.

One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this: 1. In public, Biden appears “tough”

Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs both want the same land. And a compromise has proven difficult to find.