Month: May 2021

At least 61 children were among the victims arrested as Israeli forces are rounding up Palestinians en masse inside Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory: ‘Terrorizing a Generation’: Israel Arresting Palestinian Children (Al-Jazeera) The War on Palestinians Continues—Now in the Form of Mass Arrests (The Nation) The tipping point in public willingness to close its…

Once Palestine’s cultural and economic capital, Jaffa is still home to around 20,000 Palestinians that lived there before Israel’s establishment in 1948, but government backed gentrification aims to push them out: The Other War in Israel: Gentrification (Intelligencer) Undercover Israeli forces, known as “Mista’arvim”, sneaked their way into the Umm Al-Sharayet neighborhood, where they shot…

As popular perception continues to shift in favor of Palestinians, many young American Jews begin to separate their Jewish American identities from Israel. “Killing more that 200 Palestinians in two weeks won’t bring back our ancestors who perished in the Holocaust”: Young American Jews Have Reached a Tipping Point With Israel (Rolling Stone) As if…

[The following letter to the editor was submitted to The Washington Post on May 5. The editors elected not to  publish it.  We are pleased to print it here]: The Washington Post editorial “An election fiasco leaves the Palestinian government weaker than ever” (5/3/21) tries to blame the Palestinian leadership for the delay in the…

A cease fire between Hamas and Israel does not stop the IDF attacks on civilians in Jerusalem: Celebrations in Gaza as Ceasefire Takes Hold (Aljazeera) Israeli Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Palestinians in Al Aqsa Mosque Compound (The News) His grandfather “poured his life saving’s into purchasing an apartment in the tower” after…

Palestinians go on strike  … Palestinians Go on strike as Israel-Hamas Fighting Rages (AP) … as Israel continues its colonial agenda to displace and evict Palestinians from their homeland, the United States also continues to “ignore the bedrock principle of absolute equality in Palestine/Israel — for which it has never advocated” and thus continues to be…

Press freedom advocates have sharply condemned Israel’s bombing of a Gaza building that housed the offices of Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press news agency, labelling it as “a brazen attempt to silence journalists covering the Israeli military’s ongoing offensive” … Israel Strike in Gaza Destroys Building With AP, Other Media (The National Herald) … amidst…

Netanyahu doesn’t think that 119 fatalities (including 31 children) and 830 injuries is enough; he promises more to come: ‘This Is Not Yet Over,’ Netanyahu Says, After Israel Hits Urban Areas Of Gaza (NPR) Deaths Rise As Palestinians Flee Heavy Israeli Fire in Gaza (Associated Press) Several Palestinians Killed by Israeli Fire in West Bank…

Israel’s cascade of bombings brought the “total deaths resulting from the raids on Gaza since Monday to 26, including nine children” Furthermore, at least “122 people have been wounded in the air strikes” and many are in critical condition: Israel Continues to Bomb Gaza After Air Strikes Killed Nine Palestinian Children (Middle East Eye) In…