Marwan Barghouti: Arab Peace Plan damages Palestinian cause
Marwan Barghouti: "I call for a strategy that is based on referring to the United Nations to achieve full membership in the UN and all other international agencies, so as to be able to sign pacts and...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Palestinian plight hits UEFA spotlight
With Europe’s most talented young footballers preparing for the kick-off of the under-21 championships on Wednesday, Israelis are celebrating the biggest footballing coup in their history... Last week...
View ArticleNew Israeli plan calls for more “intelligence” gathering to disrupt BDS movement
This week in Jerusalem, the Israeli foreign ministry hosted the fourth international conference of the Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism... This is “a gathering that has served as an important...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: The return to Iqrit
In 1948, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from more than 400 villages as the new state of Israel was declared on a large part of their homeland – an event known to Palestinians as the nakba, or...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky interview: Sykes-Picot is failing
Noam Chomsky: I think the Sykes-Picot agreement is falling apart, which is an interesting phenomenon... But, the Sykes-Picot agreement was just an imperial imposition that has no legitimacy; there is...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: We must defend the global commons against commercialization,...
If Palestine ever does gain independence in something like the terms of the overwhelming international consensus, it is likely that its borders with Israel will erode through normal processes of...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on secret trade deals, killing polio workers, fighting for the...
Noam Chomsky on the Turkish protests around Taksim Square: The very brave people in Taksim Square are trying to protect the very last remnants of the commons from the wrecking block... That's important...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: American University of Beirut commencement 2013 speech (video)
If Palestine ever does gain independence in something like the terms of the overwhelming international consensus, it is likely that its borders with Israel will erode through normal processes of...
View ArticleAisha Mershani: Palestine photo project – 10 years later
Ten years ago, Aisha Mershani began a project to document the lives of everyday Palestinians non-violently resisting Israeli occupation. Since 2003, she have photographed and gathered testimonies from...
View ArticleHaaretz’s Gideon Levy endorses boycott of Israel
In his op-ed in Haaretz on Sunday, columnist Gideon Levy openly endorses a boycott of Israel as the “Israeli patriot’s final refuge.” He argues that it is in fact those who fear for Israel’s future...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: An interview on the Syrian revolution
It is hard to make progress in the real world without making various compromises. I have no advice other than to say don’t let your wishes whip away the facts entirely. Be aware of the facts. We live...
View ArticleJonathan Cook: Filmmaking as resistance – Hany Abu Assad’s dream of a new...
Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad: “I want my films to put fear into Israelis. My job is to disturb their dreams, to wake them from the fantasy that there is no occupation.”
View ArticleMichael Sfard: ‘The peace process has become a major enemy of human rights’
Michael Sfard: “While talks are happening Israel gets away with anything. Land grabs, the expansion of settlements, even [Operation] Cast Lead was waged while there were peace talks.”
View ArticleFouzi El-Asmar: Al-Ard – the seed of the Palestinian struggle
Fouzi El-Asmar discusses Al-Ard (The Land), a political organization he helped found in Palestine during the late 1950s whose history and perspective have been marginalized if not largely absented from...
View ArticlePalestinian journalist/author/poet/activist Fouzi El-Asmar, R.I.P.
Journalist Magda Abu Fadil remembers Palestinian activist Fouzi El-Asmar who died last month in the Washington DC area.
View ArticleRemembering Fouzi El-Asmar, poet of the Palestinian liberation struggle
Fouzi’s work centered around Israel and the Palestinians, with particular focus on the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Following in the footsteps of his mother, Najla El-Asmar, who was an activist long...
View ArticleMoshé Machover: DeZionization – strategic considerations
As [the conflict] is caused by colonization, resolution requires decolonization. In this specific case, as the cause is Zionist colonization, what is required is deZionisation, overthrow of the Zionist...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Israel’s war on American universities
Israel has for decades been able to frame the discussion about the Palestinians. But its control of the narrative is coming to an end. As Israel loses ground it will viciously and irrationally attack...
View ArticleStephen R. Shalom: One State or Two States – prospects, possibilities, and...
The issue of one state or two states has been very divisive among leftist supporters of justice for Palestinians. It will of course be up to Palestinians themselves to decide the terms on which they...
View ArticleThirteen arrested as protesters tell Senators Menendez and Booker: ‘No more...
Menendez and Booker are the Senate’s two leading recipients of campaign contributions from pro-Israel PACs. Menendez, as head of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, has played a leading role in...
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