By Rebecca Stead | MEMO | December 27, 2018 What: Israel waged a three-week military offensive against the Gaza Strip, killing almost 1,400 Palestinians and wounding thousands more. Where: The Gaza Strip When: 27 Dec 2008 – 18 Jan 2009 What happened? On 27 December 2008, Israel launched a massive military offensive against the Palestinians […]
Jazz saxophonist and writer Gilad Atzmon was recently banned from playing at an assembly hall in Islington, a borough of London, by order of the Islington Town Council. This came about as a result of an e-mail from one person – Martin Rankoff – saying nothing more than that if Atzmon was going to be at the venue on December 21 he would give a ticket that was given to him to someone else.
Bahia Amawai is a US citizen and Texas-based language specialist who helps autistic and speech-impaired children overcome their impairment. Despite the essential and noble nature of her work, she was fired by the Pflugerville Independent School District, which serves the Austin area. Every year, Amawai signs an annual contract that allows her to carry on with her tasks uninterrupted.[Read More...]
Gilad Atzmon By Richard Hugus | December 26, 2018 More facts have come to light in the case of Gilad Atzmon and his banning by the Islington Town Council from performing at a jazz concert on December 21, 2018. The original scenario was that one e-mail from one person calling Atzmon an antisemite somehow persuaded […]
Israel’s extremist right wing ethno-nationalist leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, received a rare shock yesterday when it was revealed that his tenuous Likud-led coalition had expired. Is Bibi in danger of losing his unofficial title of ‘President for Life’?
New elections have been re-scheduled for April 2019. Desperate to curry favour with his country’s religious fundamentalists, Netanyahu even invokes God, crowing, “With God’s help, we will win.”
Sputnik – 22.12.2018 US President Donald Trump signed into law a bill ensuring the imposition of sanctions on members of the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanese organization Hezbollah for the use of civilians as human shields, the White House said in a statement. “On Friday, December 21, 2018, the President signed into law: H.R. 3342, […]
Ghassan Kanafani. (Photo: File) Palestine Chronicle | December 22, 2018 Israel removed a memorial statue in the city of Acre this week dedicated to Palestinian intellectual and writer Ghassan Kanafani. The statue was set up in a cemetery by Palestinians in the northern Israeli city to honor the iconic intellectual and Popular Front for the […]
The ethnic cleansing of 90% of the land of Palestine means that the 2-state solution dishonestly espoused by Apartheid Israel and its pro-Apartheid US Alliance supporters is now dead. Further, it is clear that the racist Zionists running Apartheid Israel are locked in to continuation of Jewish Israeli domination of all of Palestine, with the boundary prospects of endless Apartheid[Read More...]
We check in to Banksy’s bizarre Palestinian hotel, where the hospitality is as peculiar as the message is powerful By Jonathon Cook – The National – December 21, 2018 Anonymous British street artist Banksy made headlines in October when his $1.4 million artwork Girl with Balloon self-destructed by passing through a shredder concealed in its […]
MEMO | December 21, 2018 Israeli soldiers who fatally shot a Palestinian child last week prevented him from receiving potentially life-saving medical treatment, reported Haaretz. Seventeen-year-old Mahmoud Nakhle was shot on Friday 14 December as Israeli occupation forces suppressed protests around Al-Jalazun refugee camp near Ramallah. The confrontations between residents and soldiers had already slowed […]
