Stories written by PhilipGiraldi
IMEMC, 2/10/14 – A report published by the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees in Ramallah, on February 8, revealed that several ailing detainees currently imprisoned by Israel, including cancer patients, are suffering serious deterioration in their health conditions, due to the lack of adequate and specialized treatment and care. Lawyers of the Ministry of Detainees visited […]
IMEMC, 2/9/14 – A number of right-wing Israeli settlers were caught on tape, Saturday, attacking an Israeli peace activist accompanying Palestinian shepherds and farmers through Palestinian lands at Shweika village, south of the Hebron Mountains area, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The attack took place on Saturday morning [February 8, 2014], […]
Everyone remembers the Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Olympic games, but no one commemorates the hundreds of people (mostly civilians) killed by Israel’s heavy air attacks in Syria and Lebanon launched the following day. By Alison Weir. Counterpunch, 2/11/14 – The Washington Post has published a moving article, “Russian Jews remember Israeli athletes murdered at 1972 […]
IMEMC, 2/7/14 – At least 18 Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian worshipers after prayers, in the al-Aqsa compound, on Friday. Dozens of Israeli soldiers raided the compound, firing tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at worshipers, according to a report by the Ma’an News Agency. Director of Al-Aqsa clinic, Adnan Khanafseh, […]
ADC, 2/6/14 – Today in Congress an unconstitutional bill was introduced, and if passed it would stifle academic freedom, chill free speech, and penalize the use of non-violent means of resistance and protest against the Israeli occupation. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has received a lot of attention in recent months, after various American […]
Institute for Middle East Understanding, 2/6/14 – As a result of the discriminatory system of ethnic privilege that Israel has instituted in the territories that it controls between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, Palestinians living in different areas face different Israeli-imposed obstacles to exercising their rights to education and academic freedom. PALESTINIANS IN OCCUPIED […]
By Uri Yacobi Keller. Alternative Information Center, October 2009 – The idea of an academic boycott of Israel first emerged in 2002 as part of the growing boycott and divestment campaign against Israel, itself a part of the struggle against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the violation of Palestinian human and national rights. […]
By Matthew M. Aid. Foreign Policy, 9/9/13 – Syria’s reported use of chemical weapons is threatening to turn the civil war there into a wider conflict. But the Bashar al-Assad government may not be the only one in the region with a nerve gas stockpile. A newly discovered CIA document indicates that Israel likely built […]
…Roskam’s bill is blatantly unconstitutional, as are the various bills in the state legislatures… By Mitchell Plitnick. Lobelog, 02/07/14 – Earlier this week, a bill was hastily removed from the agenda of the New York State Assembly. The bill was designed as a response to the American Studies Association’s decision to boycott Israeli educational institutions. […]
By Ali Abunimah. Electronic Intifada, 2/5/14 – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended distribution of tents and shelter materials to Palestinian victims of Israeli home demolitions in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley because Israeli occupation forces are habitually destroying or confiscating them. Jon Martin Larsen, ICRC spokesperson for Israel and the occupied territories, told […]
