Israel/ Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s Apartheid state, having honed its instruments of repression against its occupied Palestinians, whom it keeps stateless and without rights, is now turning those tools on the Israeli public itself. Yesterday, Friday, buses full of Israeli protesters attempted to head to Huwwara near Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank to […]

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No, Discussing Israel’s ‘Right to Exist’ is not Antisemitic; States don’t have Rights, People Do

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – “Israel’s right to exist” has been challenged in expert testimonies by leading scholars Professor John Douglas and Professor Avi Shlaim. Dugard is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He has served intermittently as Judge of the International Court of Justice. His […]

Displaced and Refugees

Race and Erasure: Why don’t Syrian and Palestinian Refugees get treated like Ukrainians?

The Conversation

By Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland | – (The Conversation) – With the war in Ukraine now in its second year, nearly a third of the country’s population has been displaced, including 8 million people who have sought refuge beyond its borders. International support for the plight of these refugees has been heartening. Nearly 4.5 […]

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Israel’s Ahmadinejad: Smotrich calls for Palestinian Town to be Wiped off the Map

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who is also the civil administrator of the Palestinian West Bank in the Defense Ministry, called Wednesday for the Palestinian town of Huwwara to be “wiped out of existence.” Smotrich was at a conference held by the financial newspaper TheMarker, and was asked […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli PM Netanyahu’s idea of workable Peace excludes Palestinian Independence

Middle East Monitor

By Mohammad Makram Balawi | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Benjamin Netanyahu has always been an open book. Although the Israeli prime minister is skilled at twisting facts and rewriting history when necessary, he has been very clear on his relations with the Palestinians since day one. The US cannot claim that it […]

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Violence will continue in the Mideast as Long as the US runs interference for Israeli Squatting and its Pogroms against Palestinians

Mohammed Samaana

Belfast (Special to Informed Comment) – I was horrified to watch the February 22 Israeli army assault on Nablus where I was born. I grew up on its outskirts and completed my secondary education there. I yearn for its beautiful old city, renowned for Turkish baths, a traditional olive-oil soap industry and old markets filled […]

Israel/ Palestine

Haaretz: Israel has erected ‘a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime’

Middle East Monitor

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has erected “a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime,” the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning about the direction of the occupation state. Drawing attention to measures introduced by the far-right government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz’s editorial said that they include the contentious decision to […]

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Israeli Squatter Terrorists Fire Guns, Set dozens of Fires in Palestinian Town, Killing One and Wounding 100

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli squatters on land owned by Palestinian families went berserk on Sunday, after two squatters were shot by a Palestinian guerrilla in Huwwara, a small town of several thousand residents in the Nablus district. The shooter appears to have been from Nablus and was a member of the “Lion’s Den” […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Words the US and European Press are too Cowardly to Use about Israel’s Occupation of Palestinians: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Apartheid

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – On 20 February, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.” The intrigues that led to the scrapping of what was meant […]