In late March and early April 2019 our board member Alice Rothchild, MD, a retired OB/GYN physician, traveled to Jordan and the West Bank (Palestine) with her colleagues Sonia Dettman …
Turkey’s “IZU” hosts global confab on Palestine
by Yousef Aljamal [Editorial note: Turkey has hosted a number of notable conferences on Palestinian issues in recent years. Just World Ed is fortunate that Palestinian social activist Yousef Aljamal …
Exploring the roots of the Satmar Hasidim
by Miko Peled My own family history has no connection to the Holocaust. My family were Zionists who came to colonize Palestine in the 1920’s and so even though I …
Young Gazans speak up at online seminar
“People are demanding their basic rights! People want to live in dignity… It is a choice between slow death under siege or being shot at the fence.” “I think the …
Palestinian churches and mosques: Burned deliberately by Zionist extremists
There has been some consternation this week about comments that the (Israeli-government-paid) Rabbi of Beit El settlement made about the terrible fire at Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner …
Statement issued by the Palestinian National Movement inside the Israeli occupation jails
[The following is a translation into English by Yousef al-Jamal of the text of the Arabic-language statement issued by the prisoners’ leaders. It provides valuable background to recent developments inside …
Fire under Al-Aqsa mosque at same time as Paris’s Notre Dame fire
On April 15, the same day that a massive fire gutted much of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, a much smaller fire broke out in the Al-Marwani prayer room …
On Palestinian Prisoner Day: A Whole Captive Population Longing For Freedom
By Yousef M. Aljamal* NEWSFLASH!! Palestinian prisoners just ended their mass, open-ended hunger strike after they managed to force the Israeli Prison Service to install landlines in prisons which will …
Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s jail: Facts and resources
Prepared with the help of Yousef al-Jamal According to the Ramallah-based prisoners-rights organization Ad-Dameer, as of March 2019, 5,450 Palestinian political prisoners are in Israeli jails and they are scattered …
Our #IStandWithGaza project off to great start!
Earlier this month, our #IStandWithGaza project got off to a great start when we took our “Instant ISWG Photo Booth” to the recent “No to NATO, Yes to Peace” festival …