Human rights abuses by their government have so outraged prominent liberal Israelis that, in an unprecedented move, they have launched a campaign of civil disobedience. Many hundreds have responded to a call by rabbis, pledging to hide victims in their own homes to protect them from Israel’s security services. Moral concern With the mood rapidly…
When I left Israel, 10 years ago, the media was not yet saturated with unapologetic aggression towards everything Palestinian. One could still hear, here and there, some voices of dissent. Today, the task of watching or listening to a news programme has become excruciating. Israeli journalists, almost without exception, have all taken on the role of defending the homeland,…
Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of personal essays and book-length accounts by writers who have visited the Occupied Territories. Their aim has been to illuminate for a mainly Western audience issues previously ignored, or over-simplified, in the media of their home countries, and thereby to reframe international perceptions of the Palestinian…
Al Jazeera English Jaclynn Ashly · Dec 8, 2017 Occupied East Jerusalem – The Zahwat al-Quds kindergarten and primary school’s walls are decorated with colourful cartoons, while its students are dressed in grey-and-red striped uniforms. The children’s wide smiles and laughter echo through the hallways, belying their lingering anxiety after a recent Israeli raid…
Palestinian factions in the West Bank announced on Tuesday that they would carry out three days of protest across the West Bank over U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected decision regarding American policy on Jerusalem. Trump on Tuesday told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah II he intends to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel…
MEMORANDUM To HE Madam Theresa May Prime Minister of the United Kingdom November, 2nd, 2017 Apologise to the Palestinian People We the undersigned organisations and individuals appeal to the British Government to review the gross injustice done, which is still continuing, to the Palestinians as a consequence of its issue of the…
by Pepe Escobar Obama-Rouhani: lights, camera, action The stage is set. By now it’s established Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has given full authority to the new administration of President Hassan Rouhani to talk directly to Washington about Iran’s nuclear program. This happened only a few days after US President Barack Obama leaked that letters…