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  • Case Closed?

    Israel was very quick to close the case on allegations of “serious misconduct” during its recent massacre in Gaza. Earlier this month, several Israeli soldiers revealed the permissive atmosphere towards killing Palestinian civilians during Israel’s invasion. Among other shocking revelations, one soldier recounted the intentional shooting of an unarmed woman and her two children. Commenting [...]

  • Punishing the Victims

    It is hard to think of another place in the world where life is ruled by such cruel absurdities. Hamas, Israel and Fatah are all playing with the lives and well-being of these patients, including 57 children from Gaza who need to complete complex, expensive treatments at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Their health is now [...]

  • The Only BMW Shop In Gaza

    Nasser Al ‘Amoudi, with his biker’s jacket and sunglasses, embodies the essence of a car enthusiast. For years he has been the proud owner of the only BMW spare parts shop in the Gaza Strip. People would travel from every corner to purchase second hand parts from his shop. Now Nasser’s workshop and garage, which [...]

  • Keep It Up

    21% of Israeli exporters have been directly affected by the boycott movement since the beginning of 2009. So reports today (29 March) The Marker, a Hebrew-language economic newspaper. This number is based on a poll of 90 Israeli exporters in fields such as high tech, metals, construction materials, chemistry, textile and foods. The poll was [...]

  • The Palestinian Experience

    Israeli police dressed in Palestinian garb who have gone under cover to catch violent Jewish settlers got a taste of what Palestinians routinely confront as Jewish settlers attacked undercover officers thinking they were Arabs, Israeli press reported. Six Jewish settlers who mistook under cover Israeli cops for Palestinians attacked them Thursday, throwing stones and damaging [...]

  • The Jordanian Clowns

    The Jordanian royal family’s dog was secretly rushed to Israel for treatment in the midst of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday. Relations between the royal palace in Amman and the Beit Dagan veterinary hospital have been good for many years now. The Israeli medical team’s expertise has served Jordan a number [...]

  • Letter to the Editor: NYT, 1948

    Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of [...]

  • What Border?

    Olmert used a similar justification – border violations – for launching last December’s ruthless war on Hamas in Gaza, except that in this case the casus belli was not quite so legitimate: Olmert hadn’t carried out his promised withdrawal from the other part of the Palestinian Territories. There are no internationally recognized borders between Palestine [...]

  • Israeli War Crimes

    When Israeli soldiers expelled Abir Hijeh, her five children and their neighbors from homes in a Gaza war zone, she said they warned her in broken Arabic: Go south or you might get shot. The group went the wrong way and came under fire from Israeli soldiers. Hijeh was wounded and her 2-year-old daughter was [...]

  • Obama’s Lies

    Despite President Barack Obama’s statement at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had “chosen a timeline that will remove our combat brigades over the next 18 months,” a number of Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), which have been the basic U.S. Army combat unit in Iraq for six years, will remain in Iraq after [...]

  • Israeli Jihad

    The winter assault on the Gaza Strip was officially portrayed in Israel as an attempt to quell rocket fire by militants of Hamas. But some soldiers say they also were lectured about a more ambitious aim: to banish non-Jews from the biblical land of Israel. “This rabbi comes to us and says the fight is [...]

  • Australian Academics Call For Boycott of Israel

    We scholars, inspired by the wishes of Palestinian civil society, call upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era. We appeal to you to pressure your respective states to [...]

  • Obama’s Inheritance

    The US withdrawal from Iraq is under way. Some troops are preparing to go home and others have pulled back from outposts to bases. But the planned pullback of American soldiers from all Iraqi cities by the end of June will probably not be fully met. (more…)

  • Dirty Money

    Young Israelis who refused to serve in army, spent most of their short service in military prison, decide to donate their IDF salaries towards rebuilding of Gaza. (more…)

  • Israeli War Crimes

    I just flew into Brussels last night after my aborted attempt at getting into Gaza – and today the online community is all abuzz about Israeli war crimes, thanks to a report just published by the U.S. organization, Human Rights Watch. According to the report: Israel “deliberately and recklessly” fired white phosphorus shells in densely [...]

  • Israel is Sick

    The Israeli military was quick to point out that, ‘This type of humour is unbecoming and should be condemned.’ This isn’t very convincing when you consider the graffiti left by Israeli soldiers who recently occupied houses across the northern Gaza Strip: ‘Death will find you … soon’ scrawled on the bedroom wall of Majeda Abu [...]

  • This is Zionism

    Reservists marked their last night stationed in the southern Hebron Hills by damaging confiscated Palestinian vehicles, their replacements told Haaretz on Monday. The reserve battalion in question was stationed at a small base near the Shekef settlement, and spent three weeks in the south Hebron Hills. They were responsible primarily for patrolling the green line. [...]

  • Define Terrorism

    Denmark’s justice minister, Brian Mikkelsen, said: “Terrorism is defined in relation to a legitimate state which builds on the principles of democracy and the rule of law. Part of the evaluation is also whether an act is targeted at, among others, an occupation power.” The prosecution in the case has argued that the defining factor [...]

  • Respectable Fascism

    The ultra-nationalist Jewish marchers had two immediate purposes: to commemorate 20 years since their late leader Rabbi Meir Kahane raised a flag on the same spot (a year later Kahane was shot and killed in New York by an Islamic activist), and to demonstrate support for practical policies espoused by his heirs. One of them [...]

  • Lieberman is No Aberration

    I can’t stand how the Israeli left is attempting to explain Avigdor Lieberman as an aberration – an extreme case of neo-fascism in Israeli politics – when Lieberman is simply the product of widespread Israeli bigotry. Neve Gordon, a generally brave and incisive voice in the Israeli peace camp (one of the few remaining), provides [...]

  • Center-Right?

    To form the kind of center-right government Mr. Netanyahu says he would like to administer, he needs the Kadima party as a moderating force. (more…) Netanyahu’s version of “center-right” (and the Christian Science Monitor‘s apparently) is not bombing Palestinians into submission, but rather increasing land expropriation and settlement expansion. Oh, and not requiring Israeli Arab [...]

  • Ethical Asymmetry

    “You have more freedom to express support for Israeli war crimes than to speak about the Palestinian civilian victims in the war on Gaza,” As’ad Abu Khalil, professor of political science at California State University, told AlArabiya.net. “There is a general climate that is very sympathetic and solidly dogmatic in favor of Zionism then it [...]

  • Call me cynical, but this kind of story makes me wonder if Israeli children will be performing for survivors of al-Nakba any time soon.

  • Zionism Imploding

    Jewish tourists who spend more than 180 days in Israel, even without violating the terms of their tourist visas, are being increasingly harassed by border patrol officials, detained at the crossings and, in some cases, deported to their port of origin or forced to make aliya against their will, according to a Tel Aviv law [...]

  • Because He Wasn’t Brown

    Of some 120 criminal investigations brought against security force members since the beginning of the intifada, there had only been one conviction – against the Arab-Israeli soldier who shot British peace activist Tom Hurndall dead in Gaza. (more…)

  • This is Zionism

    “Palestinian laborers are forbidden to walk around the community of Har Adar in the Jerusalem corridor. They are allowed to work, but cannot simply roam the area. This is the local council’s policy.” (more…)

  • Bit By Bit, Zionism Is Backfiring

    Contrary to the views of the likely incoming right-wing government of Israel, most U.S. Jews favour peace negotiations with a Palestinian unity government that would include Hamas, according to a new poll released here Tuesday by the year-old, pro-peace Jewish lobby group, J Street. (more…)

  • Spike In Zionist Thuggery

    Since the beginning of Operation “Cast Lead” at the end of 2008, there has been a sharp rise in reports of violence perpetrated by security forces against Palestinians in the West Bank. During this nearly three-month period, B’Tselem documented 24 cases in which police officers and soldiers beat Palestinians, using rifle butts, clubs and other [...]

  • The Most Moral Army in the World

    “800 terrorists and 300 civilians, who we did not want to harm, were killed in the last operation,” Galant said. “This ratio of almost a quarter [of the individuals] uninvolved [in the fighting] is an achievement unmatched in the history of this kind of combat,” he added. (more…) Israel includes police officers in this tally [...]

  • Palestinian Animal Farm

    In scene one of the play, Farmer Jones assassinates the animals’ leader. In scene two, the animals – a few horses, a donkey, a crow, a chicken and some pigs – rally around a revolutionary sow named Snowball, who leads an uprising against their oppressive master. “Intifada!” the animals scream, using the Arabic word for [...]

  • This is Zionism

    The Israeli police were following the orders of Israel’s Public Security Minister Avi Dichter to use whatever force was necessary to prevent the Palestinian Authority (PA) from celebrating “Jerusalem as the capital of Arabic culture for 2009.” The tough crackdown, on what on the surface appeared to be a harmless and fun cultural event, underlines [...]

  • Sitting at Ben-Gurion

    Man I hate this airport… the security is a farce. After ritualistically informing me that some evil Palestinian may have placed a bomb in my bags, they emptied everything and I was strip searched (not completely, but pants off). It took two hours to get through and they personally escort me to my check-in booth [...]

  • Kris is En Route

    …from Tel Aviv to Athens and then on to Brussels… too much layover… See you in Belgium.

  • Arab Unrulies

    “The goal of the march is to make it clear to a group of unrulies in the Arab sector who is the owner of State of Israel,” said Itamar Ben Gvir, a former Kach Party activist and one of the organizers of the demonstration. (more…) Ben Gvir, an aid to radical MK Baruch Marzel, is [...]

  • What Provocation?

    “The State of Israel is the Jewish people’s state. We are here to voice our truth and not to create provocations.” (more…) How could marching into a predominantly Israeli Arab town waving flags and demanding “loyalty to the State” be a provocation? That’s just silly…

  • This is Zionism

    Medics and ambulance drivers said they were targeted when they tried to tend to the wounded. Sixteen of them were killed. According to the World Health Organisation, more than half of Gaza’s 27 hospitals and 44 clinics were damaged by Israeli bombs. Two clinics were destroyed. In one incident, paramedics were fired on by a [...]

  • Tearing Itself Apart

    Israel can erect walls to seal out the Palestinian populations in the West Bank and Gaza. It can fire missiles at terrorist suspects. It can bomb government buildings in Gaza. It can bulldoze Palestinian homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, but if in widening numbers Israeli Jews hold fast to the idea that [...]

  • The Gaza Solidarity Circus

    But Code Pink did not break the siege: they arrived in Gaza through the back door (ie via Rafah instead of the Israeli crossing at Erez) and their visit here will make no difference to Israel’s siege of Gaza, which is going as strong as ever. Gaza needs activists who are prepared to come and [...]

  • Zionism = Racism

    Anti-Arab verbal and physical attacks inside Israel have spiked in the wake of elections held earlier this year in which right-wing parties made major gains, a human rights group said on Sunday. The Mossawa Centre for the Rights of Arab Citizens in Israel has documented 250 incidents of aggression against Arab Israelis since the start [...]

  • This is Zionism

    A Hadera elementary school has been accused of racial discrimination, for its singling out of a number of students of Ethiopian origin, all born in Israel, for extra Hebrew lessons. (more…)

  • Israeli Racism

    The demonstrators said pressure should be put on Hamas to release Shalit by worsening the conditions of the almost 11,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails. (more…) Just imagine if these people put all this effort towards demanding an end to the occupation.

  • The Brave Work of “Breaking the Silence”

    An investigation by a group of former Israeli soldiers has uncovered new evidence of the military’s conduct during the assault on Gaza two months ago. According to the group Breaking the Silence, the witness statements of the 15 soldiers who have come forward to describe their concerns over Operation Cast Lead appear to corroborate claims [...]

  • Victims of Zionism

    “Palestinian medical sources reported on Sunday morning that two children were killed after unexploded ordnance, dropped by the Israeli army during the Gaza war, exploded near them in Gaza City.” (more…)

  • I Wonder Why That Could Be…

    Most fundamentally, we see a growing assault on both the legitimacy and security of the State of Israel. (more…) A state built on oppression and the racist vision of a mono-ethnic state has no legitimacy. As more and more people realize this, it becomes clearer that Zionism is a failed ideology.

  • Zionist Defecation

    There are two toilets on every floor, but the soldiers urinated and defecated everywhere else in the building, in several rooms of which they had lived for about a month. They did their business on the floors, in emptied flowerpots, even in drawers they had pulled out of desks. They defecated into plastic bags, and [...]

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