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 …
On Land Day 2019: No return from the Right of Return
By Yousef M. Aljamal* All photos by Abdallah Aljamal In early May 1948, Zionist gangs launched an offensive against the village of Aqer, to the south-east of Ramle, where my …
Abu Artema speaks about Great March of Return at Carnegie Endowment
Every week for the past year, scores of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have taken part in the nonviolent protests called the “Great March of Return.” But how …
Quandt, Tamimi are guests on JWE podcast episodes
In the second half of each of the two latest episodes of the “Story/Backstory” podcast, Just World Ed president Helena Cobban presented a conversation with an invited guest. In Episode …
Timely UN report says IDF soldiers likely committed war crimes and worse against Gaza’s march
At the end of February, a Commission of Inquiry established by the UN’s Human Rights Council issued a preliminary report on Israel’s response to the first nine months of the …