Israel/ Palestine

“I Can’t Erase All the Blood from My Mind” Palestinian Armed Groups’ October 7 Assault on Israel October 7 Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes by Hamas-led Groups ( Human Rights Watch ) Questions and Answers: The Hamas-Led Armed Groups’ October 7, 2023 Assault on Israel Early in the morning of October 7, 2023, Sagi Shifroni, […]

By Nan Levinson ( Tomdispatch.com ) – It began with Aaron Bushnell and a visceral response of mine: Why would anyone do such a thing? Bushnell was the 25-year-old active-duty airman who set himself ablaze on February 25th in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest that country’s brutal war in Gaza. […]

Sam Phelps, The Conversation | – Northern and central Gaza have been hit by Israeli airstrikes this week as troops return to battle Hamas fighters in areas they claimed to have cleared many months ago. The intensified military offensive unfolded just days after mediators thought they were making headway in negotiations for a ceasefire. On […]

By Ellen Cantarow ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In 1979, I made the first of what would turn out to be decades of periodic visits to Israel and the West Bank. I traveled there for the New York alternative publication The Village Voice to investigate Israel’s growing settler movement, Gush Emunim (or the Bloc of the […]

By Julia Conley ( Commondreams.org ) – The United Nations’ top expert on human rights in Palestine condemned the Israeli military as it resorted to a familiar excuse for the killing of nearly 100 Palestinians on Saturday in an area that had been designated as a “humanitarian zone”—just the latest massacre of dozens of people […]

By Dalia Alazzeh, University of the West of Scotland and Shahzad Uddin, University of Essex | – (The Conversation) – Israel’s ultranationalist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced in May that he would be witholding tax revenues earmarked for Palestine. The decision was made in response to Spain, Ireland and Norway’s recognition of a Palestinian state. […]

By Serag El Hegazi, University of Bradford | – (The Conversation) – Israel has reportedly approved its largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, according to a report released on July 3 by Israeli anti-settlement watchdog, Peace Now. The seizure involves more than 12 sq km of land in […]