Eva Bartlett sits down for an exclusive interview with the head of the Syrian Arab Army’s Political Administration, General Hassan Hassan. August 5, 2019, Mint Press News For years, international headlines spotlighting Syria have claimed that the Syrian government, army, and its allies were guilty of a variety of atrocities. Yet as time has passed, […] […]
The first major legal win for campus Palestine activists just happened at Fordham — Mondoweiss
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-YNSvG-jY5A%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent After a two year legal battle, a group of students at Fordham University have won a landmark victory and a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club can now be established on their campus. In December 2016, the school vetoed the Student Government’s approval of SJP, but in April 2017 the students sued the university… […]
Water Series: ‘There’s no law in the world that says you can cut water from humans’ — International Solidarity Movement
‘Enemies of life’ – Israeli bulldozer rips up water pipes near At-Tuwani August 3 | International Solidarity Movement | South Hebron Hills, occupied Palestine This is the second of a series of reports documenting the control and devastation of water sources by Israel as a tool of oppression. Israel is escalating its war on water… via […]
Isawiyya, a Palestinian town under siege by the Israeli occupation forces — International Solidarity Movement
Improvised checkpoint by border police at the entrance of Isawiya For the past two months, Isawiya, a Palestinian neighbourhood of 17,000 in East Jerusalem, has been under a constant state of siege by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). Tactics used by the IOF include nightly raids, arbitrary arrests, indiscriminate use of tear gas, rubber bullets, and… via […]
Israel’s inherent sense of racial superiority will backfire one day —
Hamas did a rare thing this week; it issued a press release contradicting one of its top officials, Fathi Hammad, who called for the killing of Jews everywhere in the world. Hammad had to backtrack on his comments and issue a press release of his own in which he stressed his commitment to the official… via […]
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) Alexander (Alex) Portnoy is a middle age Jewish male of undetermined mental stability. He has suffered like no other person alive due to the upbringing he received in New Jersey at the hands of his overbearing parents, especially his mother. This childhood ‘trauma’ is, he believes, directly responsible for […]
Gaza And Her Fishermen – This Is Their Story
Originally posted on Rebel Voice:
Independent news reports upon The Palestine Crisis have repeatedly shown the manner in which the rogue state of Israel is waging war on the civilian population of Palestine. Nowhere is suffering more than in the open air prison known as The Gaza Strip. For too many years the Zionist regime…
Stories From Gaza – A Young Protester’s Life
The stories of terror that regularly emerge from the tortured land and people of Palestine are many. Brave men, women and children struggle daily to forge decent lives for themselves, and each other, in face of constant Israeli brutality and Apartheid. Those of us on the outside can only look on in both admiration at […]
Permission Denied: Palestinian Children Struggle To Receive Medical Treatment
The tragic circumstances of Palestine are well documented by this time. There are reports, news articles, films and documentaries. Yet still the brutality of the Israeli regime persists unabated. The age group in Palestine that suffers the greatest ordeal is that of the children. Today, the children of Palestine are being continually traumatised by the […]
Jewish Anti-Zionist Speaks Out Against Israel
In the ongoing struggle for the rights of the Palestinian people to live in peace and equality, the enemies of such noble aims regularly attempt to portray the search for justice in Palestine as somehow anti-Jewish or, even more inaccurately, anti-Semitic. This sickening approach by apologists for the Israeli death machine ignores the fact that […]
Five days after demolition: Picking up the pieces — International Solidarity Movement
Palestinian flags fluttered over the rubble of Mohammad al Dababsh home in the South Hebron Hills yesterday as local activists helped the family put up a temporary shelter. Pots and pans lay scattered amongst bricks, metal and dust – the only remnants left of the two-roomed house which was demolished on Monday. ISM joined… via Five […]
Has Trump painted himself into Israel’s corner over war with Iran?
Is America preparing to go to war with Iran? This is the question dominating discussions around dinner tables as well as boardrooms. Confined not only to the Middle East, where heightened concerns about the fall-out for the volatile region’s future forms part of the focus of debates, this is also a major issue around the… via […]