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 …
Algeria’s amazing mass movement makes gains…
The Arab world is seeing a wave of mass popular movements that we might even call “Arab Spring 2.0.” In Gaza, protesters have marched weekly for over a year now …
In Israel, it is governmental racism
by Amos Gvirtz* Israel’s extreme right-wing government has led to the normalization of racism and hypocrisy. The gap between the government’s internal racism and its war against anti-Semitic racism abroad …