July 5th, 20240On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Biden he has decided to send a delegation to resume stalled negotiations on a hostage release deal with Hamas, their administrations said.
A source in the Israeli negotiating team, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there was a real chance of achieving...
June 28th, 20240The word Muqawama in Palestinian lexicon does not need elaboration beyond the immediate meaning it generates among ordinary Palestinians. Only recently, and specifically after the Oslo peace accords and the sudden infusion of Western-funded NGOs, did such terms as “peaceful resistance” and “non-violent resistance” begin to emerge...
June 28th, 20240On Thursday, the Israeli army stormed a neighborhood in Gaza City, ordering Palestinians to move south as the tanks rolled in and bombing the southern city of Rafah in what it says are the final stages of an operation against Hamas fighters there.
Residents of the Shejaia neighborhood in Gaza City said they were taken by surprise by...
June 27th, 20240Famine approaches slowly for Gazans, who spend hours in queues for a few ladles of cooked food and the chance to fill plastic containers with drinkable water after nearly nine months of Israel's military campaign in the enclave.
Sometimes there is nothing to queue for in the shattered streets and crowded schools that have been turned...
June 21st, 20240Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is often criticized for failing to produce a vision for the "next day", meaning the day following the end of the Gaza war.
Some of these criticisms emanate from Israel’s traditional Western allies, who are wary of Netanyahu’s personal and political agendas, which are fixated on delaying his...
June 21st, 20240On Wednesday the Israeli army’s chief spokesman appeared to question the stated goal of destroying the Hamas group in Gaza in a rare public rift between the country’s political and military leadership.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted Israel will pursue the fight against Hamas, the group running the besieged...
June 14th, 20240Joe Biden will lose the state of Michigan in the November election. Whether that leads to him losing the presidency is an open question. Even though the alternative is worse, actually much worse, many voters like myself cannot stomach voting for a president who has approved of and supported the intentional killing of tens of thousands of...
June 14th, 20240On June 6, Spain joined South Africa’s case at the United Nations top Court, accusing Israel of genocide.
This move followed a decision by Madrid and two other Western European capitals – Dublin and Oslo – to recognize the state of Palestine, thus breaking ranks with a long-established U.S.-led Western policy.
As per American...
June 14th, 20240Hezbollah fired the most rockets it has launched at Israel in a single day since cross-border hostilities broke out eight months ago, as part of its retaliation on Wednesday for an Israeli strike which killed a senior Hezbollah field commander.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire since the eruption of the Gaza...
June 14th, 20240Israeli tanks advanced deeper into the western area of Rafah, amid one of the worst nights of bombardment from air, ground and sea, forcing many families to flee their homes and tents under darkness, residents said on Thursday.
Residents said the Israeli forces thrust towards the Al-Mawasi area of Rafah near the beach, which is...
June 14th, 20240GENEVA — Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the early stages of the Gaza war, a U.N. inquiry found on Wednesday, saying that Israel's actions also constituted crimes against humanity because of the immense civilian losses.
The findings were from two parallel reports, one focusing on the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and another...
June 7th, 20240If one were to argue that a top Spanish government official would someday declare that “from the river to the sea, Palestine would be free”, the suggestion itself would have seemed ludicrous.
But this is precisely how Yolanda Diaz, Spain's deputy prime minister, concluded a statement on May 23, a few days before Spain officially...
June 7th, 20240On Thursday, Spain became the first European country to ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.
South Africa filed its case with the International Court of Justice late last year. It alleged that Israel was breaching the genocide convention in its military assault...
June 7th, 20240On Thursday, the NAACP urged President Biden to "indefinitely" halt all weapons deliveries to Israel and pressure the U.S. ally to end its war in the Gaza Strip, sending a reminder that his support for Israel could hurt him among Black voters in November's election.
The NAACP's call was a rare instance of the influential civil rights...
June 7th, 20240DETROIT – Dozens of professors, employees, alumni and students at Wayne State University protested on Tuesday evening against the forced removal of a student encampments and the dispersal of the pro-Palestinian protest on Thursday, May 30. An open letter sent to the university’s administration and Board of Governors asked them to...
May 31st, 20240A New York City hospital fired a Palestinian American Muslim nurse after she called Israel's war in Gaza a "genocide" during an acceptance speech for an award for her work with bereaved mothers who lost their children during pregnancy and childbirth.
A spokesperson for the hospital, NYU Langone Health, said on Thursday that labor and...
May 31st, 20240Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor would be uttering these words:
“I have reasonable grounds to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu... and Yoav Gallant... bear criminal responsibility for... war crimes and crimes against humanity...”
Aside from...
May 31st, 20240A career State Department official has resigned from her post under the Biden administration on Tuesday after disagreeing with a U.S. report that concluded Israel was not impeding on aid flow into Gaza. Stacy Gilbert, who served as the senior civilian-military advisor to the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration...
May 17th, 20240THE HAGUE – On Thursday, South Africa urged the U.N.'s top court to order a halt to Israel's offensive on Rafah, saying attacks on Gaza city "must be stopped" to ensure the survival of the Palestinian people.
South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands, Vusimuzi Madonsela, asked judges to order Israel to "immediately, totally and...
May 17th, 20240DETROIT – Organizations, collectives, movement leaders, trade unionists, community members, students and intellectuals, artists and cultural workers, and activists will convene in Detroit from May 24-26 for the People’s Conference for Palestine.
The conference comes as Israel’s brutal genocide in Gaza completes seven months, with...
May 17th, 20240On Wednesday, Palestinians marked the 76th year of their mass expulsion from their country, Palestine — what is now Israel — an event at the core of their national struggle. But in many ways that experience pales in comparison to the calamity now unfolding in Gaza.
Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe....
May 17th, 20240OXFORD, U.K. – On Tuesday, just over a week since the establishment of Oxford’s “Liberated Zone” for Gaza, more than 500 members of the faculty and staff at the University of Oxford have now pledged their support in writing for the solidarity encampment and its demands. More signatures are being added in support daily.
The...
May 10th, 20240The United States has suspended a shipment of weapons to Israel, including heavy, bunker-busting bombs Israeli forces have used in their war against Hamas militants in Gaza that have killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians in seven months.
President Biden acted in the face of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to pursue a...
May 10th, 20240President Biden said that he would not supply offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there.
On Wednesday Biden said in an interview with CNN that the U.S. was still committed to Israel’s defense and would supply...
May 8th, 20240GENEVA – Rebuilding Gaza's shattered homes will take at least until 2040, but could drag on for many decades, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday.
Nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment have caused billions of dollars in damage, leaving many of the crowded strip's high-rise concrete buildings reduced to heaps, with a...
May 8th, 20240Police have arrested nearly 2,200 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks, sometimes using riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices to clear tent encampments and occupied buildings. One officer accidentally discharged his gun inside a Columbia University...
May 8th, 20241By Andrew Mullen
For months, student activists at the University of Michigan have called for their school to cut financial ties to the state of Israel, only to be met with rejection from university officials.
However, the students refuse to be ignored.
Following the lead of activists at Columbia University and other schools across the...
May 6th, 20240Palestinians may be gratified to see American university campuses erupt in outrage over Israel's offensive in Gaza, but some in the embattled enclave are also wondering why no similar protests have hit the Arab countries they long viewed as allies.
Demonstrations have rocked U.S. universities this week, with confrontations between...
