‘Price tag’ arson attacks by Israeli settlers against mosques and churches on the rise amid government inaction. By Jonathan Cook. Al Jazeera – This week, Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nazareth had a note delivered at his home. It warned that he and his followers had until May 5 to leave the “land of […]
IMEMC – Israel will secure its status as the national homeland of the Jewish people by law, if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has his way. “One of my main missions as prime minister of Israel is to bolster the status of the State of Israel as the national state of our people,” Netanyahu said […]
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Thursday [May 1, 2014] four Palestinians who were working in their farmlands near ‘Aboud village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Eyewitnesses said soldiers, stationed at a military camp near the village, invaded Palestinian lands and orchards, violently attacking four villagers, causing various cuts and bruises. […]
Project Censored – In January 2013, Israel acknowledged that medical authorities have been giving Ethiopian immigrants long-term birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent.The Israeli government had previously denied the charges, which were first brought to light by investigative reporter Gal Gabbay in a December 8, 2012, broadcast of Israeli Educational Television’s news program, Vacuum. In […]
Project Censored – Declassified documents reveal that the Israeli military calculated how many calories a typical Gazan would need to survive, in order to determine how much food to supply the Gaza Strip during Israel’s 2007–2010 blockade. The Israeli human rights group Gisha, which campaigns against Israel’s Gaza blockade, fought a legal battle to force the […]
By Samia Khoury. Unable to admit the failure of US diplomacy, Mr. Obama suggests a pause in the peace negotiations because “Israeli and Palestinian leaders are unwilling to make hard choices.” Really Mr. Obama!! You cannot be joking after all the compromises that the Palestinians have made since Oslo, when you were still maybe in college or working your […]
IMEMC – In a letter delivered to the Latin Patriarch in the Holy Land, Paul Marcuzzo of Nazareth, an Israeli man has said that all Christian priests, and Christians in Israel, must leave the country “or else a 100 Christians will be killed every hour of delay”. The Israeli police in the northern part of […]
IMEMC – Four universities in California held lengthy sessions over the past week as their student senates considered divesting from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestine, while students at the University of South Florida submitted the largest petition in the university’s history calling on the university to divest. Also taking on a major […]
IMEMC – A Palestinian lawyer was found dead in his apartment, on Tuesday, after being tortured during a 45-day detention by Israeli forces, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. Amjad al-Safadi, aged 39, was beaten, shocked and put under continuous observation, leading to extreme psychological distress, ultimately pushing him to commit suicide, a statement by […]
IMEMC – Plans for nearly 14,000 new settler homes were approved by the Israeli government, during the nine months of peace talks with the Palestinians, according to an Israeli NGO — this in addition to over 500 Palestinian structures that were demolished throughout the US-brokered “peace negotiations”. The negotiation period formally ended today. Israeli Prime […]
