PNN, 2/17/14 – Israeli occupation forces assaulted Saturday evening Photojournalist Yousef Shakarneh from Nahalin village west of Bethlehem, who worked as a freelancer Photojournalist with a number of local and international news agencies. Parents of the Photojournalist Shakarneh told PNN that their son was assaulted and severly beat while shooting a report about the suffering of […]
By Jonathan Cook. CounterPunch, 2/13/14 – Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rarely been so politically embattled. His travails indicate the Israeli right’s inability to respond to a shifting political landscape, both in the region and globally. The context for his troubles was his commitment in 2009, under great pressure from a newly elected US […]
B’Tselem, 2/9/14 – Gaza’s main water source is the coastal aquifer, which is also used by Israel and Egypt. It has been continuously over-pumped for decades, even prior to Israel’s occupation in 1967. At present, the Palestinian Water Authority pumps some 180 million cubic meters (mcm) a year from the aquifer in Gaza, although its […]
By Allan C. Brownfeld. In a thoughtful new study guide issued by the Israel/Palestine Mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a question is asked which few have thus far been willing to pose: “Given the liberal values shared by many American Jews and the long, proud tradition of Jewish participation in the struggle for human […]
IRmep, 2/12/14 – For several years, IRmep’s Israel Lobby Archive has been trying to obtain and publish FBI files (PDF) about Israel’s Mossad intelligence and covert operations service. Our key argument for release is that the FBI routinely releases files about Russian and Chinese spies, including interview transcripts and surveillance video. Appeals of FBI denials to the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Andrew Doughman. Las Vegas Sun, 1/28/14 – State Sen. Mark Hutchison, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, decided Monday to disclose an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel last year. Hutchison had faced criticism from another Republican lieutenant governor candidate, Sue Lowden, who called on Hutchison to disclose the trip as a gift. Although state law calls for elected officials […]
