Palestine

London council cancels pro-Palestine event over anti-Semitism claims

MEMO | August 5, 2019 London Borough of Tower Hamlets refused to host the closing rally of the annual bike ride raising money for Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza over claims it would breach the IHRA’s anti-Semitism criteria, the Guardian reported on Saturday. The council told the Big Ride for Palestine, which was established […]

Irwin Cotler, the White Helmets, and the Whitewashing of an Appalling Agenda

Cotler’s campaigns for foreign regime change or intervention almost always march in lock-step with neoconservative U.S. foreign policy. His “humanitarian” branding is but a thin veneer of hypocrisy to conceal his establishment policies — policies that almost always serve the interests of Israel. On July 22, 2018, Israel organized and facilitated an exceptional evacuation of White Helmet operatives from southern Syria, claiming […]

Palestine’s UN Delegation Criticizes Secretary-General for Not Including Israel on ‘List of Shame’

By Ali Salam | IMEMC | August 4, 2019 To the dismay of Palestine’s delegation to the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres did not include Israel in his new “list of shame”, which includes states committing grave violations against children, despite the figures and statistics in the report about serious violation of rights of children […]

‘There’s no law in the world that says you can cut water from humans’

This is the second of a series of reports documenting the control and devastation of water sources by Israel as a tool of oppression.* A bulldozer destroys water wells while a Regavim drone hovers above International Solidarity Movement | August 3, 2019 South Hebron Hills, occupied Palestine – Israel is escalating its war on water […]

‘Clear and Decisive Win’: Why Netanyahu Needs a War on Gaza More Than Ever Before

By Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle | August 1, 2019 Media reports of an impending Israeli war on the besieged Gaza Strip are now a regular occurrence. The frequency of these reports fluctuates based on Israel’s own political landscape. Empirical experience has taught us that when Israeli leaders are in trouble, they wage a war […]

Israel summons 8-year-old Palestinian girl for interrogation

MEMO | August 1, 2019 Israeli authorities yesterday summoned an eight-year-old Palestinian girl from the occupied West Bank city of Hebron for interrogation, making her the third minor to be called in for questioning this week. According to sources who informed the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli soldiers raided the home of Hebron resident Shadi […]

Facebook defeats appeal in US claiming it aided Hamas attacks in Israel

MEMO | July 31, 2019 Facebook Inc on Wednesday defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks in Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its terroristic goals, Reuters reports. The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the Communications Decency […]