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The news from Palestine, as has been the case for a long while now, is bad and depressing on many levels. The announcement of the “deal of the century” and subsequent gestures from the United States towards Israel, capped off two decades in this century which were disastrous to Palestine and the (...)
Findings from Sri Lanka’s first dedicated National Survey on Violence against Women and Girls reveal that women in Sri Lanka are more than twice more likely to have experienced physical violence by a partner than by a non-partner.
According to the Women’s Wellbeing Survey conducted by the Census (...)
Israel’s Jewish left is abandoning the term ’occupation’ and adopting the word ’apartheid’ to describe the reality on the ground.
The Israeli right is concerned. Ever since the 6th June mass demonstration against the Israeli government’s plans to annex large areas of the West Bank, the right has (...)
Joint List alliance capitalises on backlash against Netanyahu by taking 15 seats in Knesset
Arab politicians are set to make historic gains in the Israeli election, taking more seats than ever before and solidifying their position as the third-largest force in the Knesset, the country’s (...)
On January 28 in Washington, a so-called Middle East peace plan was presented by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and in the notable absence of the Palestinian side. The outlines of the project were put together by Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and (...)
Critics in the capitalist media of Trump’s “Peace Plan” for Israel claim he has given Israel everything it wants. What he has done is to put in place the finishing touches that Western imperialism for a century, and for the last half century mainly the U.S., has constructed in backing Zionism’s (...)
From approving brutal interrogation techniques to writing false medical reports, doctors in Israel have taken an active role in the torture of Palestinian prisoners.
If the Shin Bet runs a school for its agents and interrogators, the curriculum most certainly includes a class on how to tell a (...)
The United States passed legislation last year to sharply reduce aid to the Palestine unless it stopped the pay-outs.
Ramallah/Jerusalem: The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority (PA) will once again accept tax revenues collected on its behalf by Israel, after rejecting the money for months, (...)
Israelis consistently vote against the idea of a Jewish and democratic Israel alongside a Palestinian state. It is now impossible to see how that could ever be realized.
On Sunday Ayman Odeh, the chairman of the Joint List, met with President Reuven Rivlin to announce his party’s noteworthy (...)
As Israel’s center-left and centrist parties have dropped the topic of the occupation over the years, Meretz has remained the sole Jewish party to emphasize ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But can it continue to hold out amidst running mate Ehud Barak’s talk of annexation?
Meretz has (...)
Palestinian workers have faced decades of abuse and marginalisation by Israel, Arab regimes and the PA.
Over the past month, the Lebanese authorities have unleashed a brutal crackdown on Palestinian workers. In June, Lebanese Minister of Labour Kamil Abu Sleiman decreed that Palestinian (...)
It has been an interesting week.. Two members of Congress, Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib had been invited to visit the Israeli-occupied territories under the auspices of an organisation called Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy (aka (...)
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) was established in the 1980s to provide deep insight into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to promote the joint struggle to end the occupation and enable the Palestinian people to attain their freedom, independence and national rights. On a local and (...)
Any framework that comes to replace the two-state solution must aspire toward decolonization, and accept that Zionism and full civic equality are irreconcilable.
Changes on the ground over the past decade have allowed Israel to consolidate its rule between the river and the sea. While the (...)
The first comments on Netanyahu’s victory, right and far right in Israeli politics, how did Arab Israelis vote.
A clear victory for Netanyahu
Not only did Netanyahu won the elections but his Likud party increased the number of its members in the new Knesset from 30 to 36, one more than the (...)
I was shut down in South Africa for speaking out, and I’m disturbed that the same is happening to critics of Israel now.
Ronnie Kasrils was a leading member of the African National Congress during the apartheid era and former government minister.
As a Jewish South African anti-apartheid (...)
UN says 194 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire and close to 29,000 wounded in past 12 months
Gaza is on edge before a planned Saturday protest to mark the anniversary of mass rallies along its frontier, after a year in which Israeli soldiers have shot thousands of people.
The (...)
Palestinian Authority and Hamas target each other’s supporters, says Human Rights Watch
The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and its political rival Hamas in Gaza regularly detain and torture critics and dissenters, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report.
Both have carried (...)
The Palestinian rapper on the power of Ramallah’s dance culture documented in a new film, Palestine Underground
Muqata’a is locally known as the “godfather” of the underground hip-hop scene in Ramallah, a city in the West Bank, Palestine. A former member of the acclaimed collective Ramallah (...)
Widespread strike brings Palestinians together against controversial law, but also serves as a platform for existing grievances.
JERUSALEM – In a rare show of unity since 1948, Palestinians across the occupied territories staged a large-scale strike on Monday denouncing Israel’s nation-state (...)
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