64th Anniversary of the Nakba: (Catastrophe) Palestinians' Suffering Continues to Aggravate and the Human Rights Situation deteriorates

15 May 2012, marks the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the anniversary of the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland. This was the harshest and most brutal ethnic cleansing in the world, and included systematic and deliberate killings an …

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Israel Casually Bars UN Fact Finding Team

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Public radio station fires editor who dared to speak out about Israel's 'brutal military occupation'

Ugly news about the American discourse, and the role of the Israel lobby inside liberal institutions. A longtime editor at a public radio station in Baltimore has been fired in part because he questioned US pandering to Israel. David Zurawik reports in the Baltimore Sun:

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UN rights expert urges Israel to release Palestinian woman prisoner on hunger strike

14 March 2012 –An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged Israel to release Hana Shalabi, a Palestinian woman prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month.

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Jews for Justice for Palestinians

The Torah teaches: ‘Justice, justice, you shall pursue’ (Deuteronomy 16:20).To secure a lasting settlement to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis so they can live in peace and security, thrive side by side, and co-operate together, Jews today are obligated  …

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Israel initiates escalation, Gazans pay the price

Unlike in previous rounds of violence, even the official IDF timeline states that Israel was the first to act, when on Friday it assassinated two of the heads of the Popular Resistance Committees. No official explanation was given for the hit, except a claim that  Zuheir Al- …

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Israeli attacks on Gaza kill over 20 (children old among dead)

Israeli airstrikes killed an additional three people in the Gaza Strip overnight, including a teenage boy, bringing the total death toll to 21 after three days of attacks on the Hamas-controlled territory.

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Female Israeli settler attacks Swedish minister

Swedish minister for education Jan Björklund, the leader of the Liberal Party (Folkpartiet) was attacked by a female Israeli settler, while visiting Hebron on the West Bank on Wednesday.

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UN tells Israel of concern for Palestinian hunger striker - Yahoo! News

A UN envoy called on Israel on Friday to do all it can for the health of a Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for the past 55 days in protest at his detention without charge.

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What on Earth Would Prompt a Newspaper Editor (Militant Extremist Zionist) to Call for Obama's Assassination?

Three, give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States' policy Picture: Adler and Goldberg the militant extremist zionists  …

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Neo-Nazis, Extremist Jews Unite

French neo-Nazis formed an alliance with extremist Jewish groups on the Internet to publish a torrent of hate messages directed against Arabs and Muslims, according to a report by a leading anti-racist group.

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Religious extremism (on the rise ) and the "jewish state"

Most of the nation is disgusted by the extremist outbursts by rabbinical zealots. This certainly applies to most observant Israelis who are particularly appalled and shamed when a religious leader like Rabbi Lior endorses racism and bigotry.

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The IDF Violated Nuremberg Principles (and Geneva Conventions) During Operation Cast Lead

In what can be considered a sad paradox of history, an analysis of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) actions during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza shows that the IDF violated several of the Nuremberg Principles, as well as the principles of the Geneva Conventions.

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France condemns 'provocative' Israeli settlement plans - France - Palestinian Territories - Israel - RFI

France on Thursday dubbed “provocative” Israeli plans to build new settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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Dec. 27, 2011 (3 year Anniversary of Operation Cast Lead): Palestinian Killed, 11 Wounded, As (Israeli) Army Bombards Gaza

December 27, marks the third anniversary of the three-week Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in which more than 1,419 Palestinians were killed and thousands were wounded. Among the killed were 412 children, and approximately 280 medics and members of the civil defense.

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Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kidnap 3 Palestinian Boys, Illegal Jewish Settlers Attack Residents of Beit Ummar - Dec. 2011

Illegal Israeli occupation forces (IOF) kidnapped three Palestinian boys in Laban al-Sharqiya village to the south of Nablus on Sunday evening while harvesting olives, local sources said. They said that the three kids, all 15 years old, were collecting olives in their v …

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Israel's illegal occupation

Bringing an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land is as much a prerequisite for peace in the Middle East as is the Palestinian recognition of Israel.

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Israeli Planes Attack Gaza (kill civilians)

December 9, 2011 GAZA — Israel carried out more airstrikes in Gaza early Friday, accidentally killing a Palestinian man and his 12-year-old son.

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Israel as occupier - Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine / Israel

 It is a sad result of the misinformation and falsehoods surrounding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that prevail in the US media, if ever there were a case of "blaming the victim," Palestinians would be top of the list, for (more than) 37 years Israel has occupied the …

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Seven Israeli women held over right-wing violence

Seven young Israeli women, six of them minors, have been arrested on suspicion of participating in the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian olive trees, Israeli police said on Sunday. In case the read article link does not work, please use the following link

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Israel OKs settler homes in Jerusalem Arab area: TV

By this decision the committee is throwing oil on the flames... encouraging the settlers (and) their very explosive and problematic presence in this neighbourhood," Yudith Oppenheimer, of Israeli NGO Ir Amim which lobbies for co-existence in Jerusalem, told the channel.

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Israel's Apartheid Separation Wall

Anyone who tours the length of the planned (now completed) path of the wall is struck by one aspect that leaps to the eye, it has been determined without the slightest consideration for the life of the Palestinian human beings living there.

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France summons Israeli envoy over Gaza attack

France has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Paris to a meeting at the foreign ministry after an air strike wounded the French consul in Gaza, along with his wife and daughter.

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Answering Judge Goldstone's defense and denial of Israeli apartheid

What does it mean that Judge Richard Goldstone – he of the Goldstone report – has penned a desperate and propagandistic defense of Israel against what he calls the “apartheid slander” in The New York Times?

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Palestinian Prisoners - (Palestinians not only live under an illegal occupation, but also under an unstable and unjust system of law and order)

Since Israel began its illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained, representing approximately twenty percent of the current total Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories.

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