Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism

Israel arrests 75 Palestinians from Gaza in 2021

MEMO | January 4, 2022 The Israeli occupation forces have arrested 75 Palestinians in total last year at the Erez Crossing between Gaza and Israel, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Centre for Studies. The Israeli army bans Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from entering the 300-meter area adjacent to its border with the enclave and shoots or […]

US Senator Calls for Renewed Investigation of Murder of Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh

Alex Odeh with his daughters months before he was assassinated. Photo: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee IMEMC | January 3, 2022 In a report filed Saturday in Liberation magazine by Reem Zubaidi, the author explains that new information has come to light about the assassination of Alex Odeh, a Palestinian-American human rights activist killed in 1985 by […]

Israeli Aggression on New Year’s Weekend

By Stephen Lendman | January 2, 2022 Any pretext or none at all unjustifiably justifies Israeli aggression against blockaded/defenseless Gazans. At its discretion, the apartheid state bombs, shells, invades, and otherwise immiserates long-suffering Strip residents. Despite Israeli state terror repeating with disturbing regularity, the world community yawns and ignores its worst crimes of war and […]

Israel demolished 69 homes, issued 172 demolition orders in Silwan in the year 2021

WAFA | December 30, 2021 JERUSALEM – Israeli occupation authorities demolished 69 homes belonging to Palestinians in the East Jerusalem town of Silwan, and issued 172 other home demolition orders during the year 2021. Fakhri Abu Diab, the member of the Defense of Silwan Land Committee, said the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem, and its […]

Israeli soldiers watch as settlers open fire at Sheikh Jarrah homes

MEMO | December 30, 2021 Israeli Occupation Forces stood by as settlers opened fire on Palestinian homes in the occupied East Al-Quds neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. According to a Wafa News Agency correspondent, the soldiers also detained a 13-year-old Palestinian boy from the flashpoint neighbourhood. More than five hundred Palestinians living in twenty eight houses in the […]

Israel refuses to provide evidence for banning Palestinian rights groups

MEMO | December 28, 2021 The Israeli occupation authorities have failed to provide evidence for outlawing six Palestinian human rights and civil society groups, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) said on Tuesday. “The organisations have not received any of the evidentiary materials that the Israeli authorities purport to justify this […]

Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy: Three Possible Answers

By Ramzy Baroud | MEMO | December 28, 2021 At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Bank seems puzzling. What would be the logic of giving Israeli soldiers the space to shoot more Palestinians when existing army manuals had already granted them near-total immunity and little legal accountability? […]

A More Aggressive Israel Lobby Is Coming in 2022

BY PHILIP GIRALDI • UNZ REVIEW  • DECEMBER 28, 2021 Those Americans who dare to challenge the strangle-hold that Israel and its friends have over US foreign policy will likely find themselves targeted even more aggressively in the upcoming year. Two weeks ago the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), widely reckoned to be the […]

The apartheid regime’s Christmas propaganda and oppression of Palestinian Christians

By Denijal Jegic | Press TV | December 26, 2021 As people around the world are celebrating Christmas, occupied Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity, remains under brutal Israeli apartheid. Meanwhile, the Israeli regime targets Western Christians with Zionist propaganda. Zionist propaganda The Israeli propaganda apparatus “Hasbara” has long invested large amounts of money and significant […]

Israeli authorities remove original name of neighborhood in occupied Haifa

Quds News Network | December 25, 2021 Occupied Haifa – The Israeli municipality of the 1948-occupied city of Haifa has removed the original Palestinian name of Wadi Al Jimal neighborhood and refused to add it to signs and official documents, replacing it with the Hebrew name ‘Ein Hayam’. The Israeli move sparked outrage among residents […]