Why don't soccer matches include a moment of solidarity with killed Palestinian players, and the dying young man aching to join his teammates on the field once more?
Palestine and Israel
Mahmoud Sarsak and the Israeli war on Palestinian soccer
- 08 June 2012
- Ramzy Baroud
- Palestine and Israel
Israel is deploying nuclear weapons on German-built submarines
- 05 June 2012
- Der Spiegel
- Palestine and Israel
In the past, the German government has always stuck to the position that it is unaware of nuclear weapons being deployed on the submarines it built for Israel, but German magazine Der Spiegel has exposed the truth.
Madonna whitewashes Israel's crimes of occupation and apartheid
- 05 June 2012
- Jonathan Owen
- Palestine and Israel
Attempts by Madonna to deflect criticism of her Tel Aviv concert -- called a fig-leaf to apartheid -- by offering free tickets to local peace campaigners backfired, with a number rejecting the offer.
Israel: apartheid state masquerading as Middle East's only democracy
- 27 May 2012
- Yousef Munayyer
- Palestine and Israel
What exists today is one state, under Israeli control, where 1.5 million Palestinians are second-class citizens, and four million are not citizens at all.
Why a cultural boycott of Israel is justified
- 26 May 2012
- Ben White
- Palestine and Israel
Boycott is a response to a call from Palestinian civil society, which is seeking to mobilise international civil society as a way of realising their basic rights.
As Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike near death Israel is warned of third intifada
- 13 May 2012
- Harriet Sherwood
- Palestine and Israel
Even the usually silent Tony Blair has intervened for fear of the repercussions if any of the 2,500 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for their human rights dies.
Palestinian hunger strike biggest in history but world says nothing because Israel is the jailer
- 06 May 2012
- David Rose
- Palestine and Israel
Since the Arab Spring began last year, young Palestinians have looked at what happened in Tunisia and Egypt with envy and looked for a similar focus: now they have found it.
Why the International Criminal Court should prosecute Israel for war crimes in Gaza
- 05 April 2012
- Tom Rollins
- Palestine and Israel
The International Criminal Court was set up to bring war criminals to justice -- unless the criminal is Israel and the victims are Palestinian.
Israel's sociopathic soldiers shooting Palestinians like fish in a barrel
- 04 April 2012
- Johnny Barber
- Palestine and Israel
If Israel thinks that by killing 19-year-old youths like Mahmoud Zaqout it will crush Palestinian resistance, it has no understanding of history.
Report documents systematic abuse of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention
- 02 April 2012
- Nora Barrows-Friedman
- Palestine and Israel
A new report shows how Israel’s routine arrests, detentions, interrogations, abuses and torture of Palestinian children are in breach of UN and international laws.
Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by eviction in Jerusalem
- 27 March 2012
- Sarah Colborne
- Palestine and Israel
Since Israel illegally occupied East Jerusalem in 1967, its primary goal has been to thwart any future attempt to challenge Israeli sovereignty over the city.
Twenty Palestinians on hunger strike, Hana Shalabi close to dying, world says nothing
- 24 March 2012
- Amnesty International
- Palestine and Israel
Israel has not allowed detained Palestinians on hunger strike access to independent doctors, denied some access to lawyers, isolated them , or punished them in other ways.
The crimes of the Toulouse murderer will do nothing but harm to Muslims and Palestinians
- 22 March 2012
- Matt Carr
- Palestine and Israel
Palestinians do not need people like Mohammed Merah to advance their cause and did not ask for their participation. On the contrary, his actions will inevitably be used against them.
As Gaza attack continues a rare voice of humanity comes out of Israel
- 12 March 2012
- Gideon Levy
- Palestine and Israel
Israel's killing of Palestinians is allowed, eliciting just a yawn: the legality of the killings, is no longer a subject for debate. Imagine if there were 15 Israelis killed over the weekend.
Did Obama give Israel green light for murderous attack on Gaza?
- 11 March 2012
- Max Blumenthal
- Palestine and Israel
Evidence suggests Obama told Netanyahu he could not have his war on Iran -- not yet, at least -- but could assault Palestinians in Gaza without repercussions from Washington.
Spot the difference betweeen Iran and Israel
- 10 March 2012
- Mehdi Hasan
- Palestine and Israel
As the drums of war against Iran are intensified by Israel, the US and Britain, you can learn a lot about the reasons by answering seven questions about the difference between Israel and Iran.




