How historian Shlomo Sand "stopped being a Jew"
Rod Such – The Electronic Intifada 15 September 2014 “Is not the very fact of defining oneself as a Jew within the State of Israel an act of affiliation to […]
How historian Shlomo Sand “stopped being a Jew”
Rod Such – The Electronic Intifada 15 September 2014 “Is not the very fact of defining oneself as a Jew within the State of Israel an act of affiliation to […]
Netanyahu faces new Gaza reality
Israel’s failed war on Gaza has shifted the political ground on both sides of the conflict, bolstering Hamas, which Israel set out to destroy, and discrediting Israeli propaganda, which no one now believes, writes Ramzy Baroud Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s latest war on Gaza has also […]
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Israel of committing war crimes by attacking three UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip in fighting in July and August, killing Palestinian […]
Israeli intelligence veterans refuse to serve in Palestinian territories
Innocent people under military rule exposed to surveillance by Israel, say 43 ex-members of Unit 8200, including reservists Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem The Guardian, Friday 12 September 2014 Forty-three veterans […]
Antisemitism and criticism of Israel
theguardian: A protest against Israeli food products sold in Sainsbury’s supermarket. Photograph: Guy Corbishley/Alamy/Alamy I do not need Michael Gove to explain to me what antisemitism is (Gove attacks ‘antisemitic’ Israel boycotts, 10 September). I have been the object of antisemitism by two Conservative MPs, Sir Charles Taylor, who told […]
Israel illegally coerces Africa migrants to leave — HRW
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has illegally coerced almost 7,000 African migrants into returning to their home countries, where some face persecution, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. “Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ attempts to secure protection under Israeli and international law,” New York-based HRW said in […]
For Israel, the beginning of wisdom is to admit its mistakes
theguardian: by Avi Shlaim — Israel has a habit of justifying its actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, however illegal and indecent, in the name of security. But denying any security to the other side only perpetuates the conflict. Five days after reaching a ceasefire with Hamas to end the latest round […]
Muslims’ WW2 help for Jews displayed at Cardiff synagogue
BBC: An exhibition charting the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives in the Holocaust goes on show in Cardiff on Sunday. Stanley Soffa, chair of Jewish Representative Council for […]
Muslims' WW2 help for Jews displayed at Cardiff synagogue
BBC: An exhibition charting the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives in the Holocaust goes on show in Cardiff on Sunday. Stanley Soffa, chair of Jewish Representative Council for […]
Prince Hassan urges int’l justice community to play active role in resolving Mideast conflicts
AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan has called on the international justice community to play a more active role in helping resolve conflicts in the Middle East. Delivering the keynote address at a high-level meeting of experts on Global Issues and Their Impact on the Future of Human Rights and International […]
Zionists Push for Wars Against All Muslims, to Avoid Peaceful Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
By Uri Avnery Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, September 8, 2014 God Wills It! FOR SIX decades my friends and I have warned our people: if we don’t make peace with the nationalist […]
The Muslim Times' Response to Peres' Proposal ‘UN for Religions’ to Pope at Vatican
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
The Muslim Times’ Response to Peres’ Proposal ‘UN for Religions’ to Pope at Vatican
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Protests break out in West Bank following Israeli land grab
Clashes between protesters and the police and military have broken out in the West Bank after the biggest Israeli land grab in 30 years. The Palestinian village of Wadi Fukin, […]
Rai: Israel seeks regional divisions to justify presence
The Daily Star BEIRUT: The conspiracy to divide the Middle East into sectarian states is still alive, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai warned Saturday, saying it was being used to justify Israel’s presence as a Jewish state. “The project of the new Middle East is not dead, but it is in play in light of […]
Peres Proposes ‘UN for Religions’ to Pope at Vatican
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Israeli settlers continue their raid on Al Aqsa Mosque
Israeli settlers continue their raid on Al-Aqsa Mosque Details Published on Wednesday, 03 September 2014 14:58 PNN/ Jerusalem The chairman of the Higher Islamic Authority and preacher for Jerusalem, Ekrema Sabri, told PNN that Israeli settlers and Rabbis, accompanied by the Israeli police, continue raiding Al-Aqsa mosque under the […]
Israel Announces Massive West Bank Land Grab
Epigraph: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your […]
Israel’s ‘land for lives’ is theft. Pure and simple World View: Israel takes land, Palestine loses land; that’s the way it works
by Robert Fisk, The Independent So a bit more of Palestine has slidden down the plughole. A thousand more acres of Palestinian land stolen by the Israeli government – for “appropriation” is theft, is it not? – and the world has made the usual excuses. The Americans found it “counter-productive” […]