Greetings all, On Friday I went for 14 hours on a trip to the South of Lebanon. Our trip might be called shunpiking South Lebanon and seeing Palestine — without permission. We were blocked at a Lebanese army security checkpoint. Foreigners need permits. And I was identified by my inexperienced guide as a journalist. Finally I got out and made… Read more →
The creation and evolution of the Israeli state are depicted by the bourgeoisie as one of those idyllic epics for which it has a strong predilection. Haven’t the insufficiently praised virtues of this tiny people, its toil, its courage and perseverance, made the deserts bloom? In reality this fairy tale, spread with an aura of self-righteousness, conceals the drama of… Read more →
Palestinians commemorate Nakba Day on the 15th of May every year. The Nakba, which in Arabic means “the catastrophe”, refers to the forcible expulsion of 700,000-800,000 Palestinians from their land in the time leading up to and following the creation the state of Israel in 1948. In human terms, this meant the mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their… Read more →
A forensic analysis of the collusion between the U.S. and Israel, dispelling the view of the U.S. as an “honest broker” in the negotiations with the Palestinians. By VIJAY PRASHAD DOES Palestine exist? Not for the Israeli government. It has been a resolute part of Israeli state policy to deny the existence not only of the place called Palestine but… Read more →
Listen to the Palestinian singer and writer—Khaled El-Hibr sing these words on Jadaliyya: We are fine in Gaza How about you? We are fine under attack How about you? Our martyrs are under the rubbles Our children now living in the tents And they ask about you We are fine in Gaza How about you?
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) –– Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon killed two children, and at least twelve others, bringing the day’s death toll to 21. An airstrike on Kishku street in the Zaitoun neighborhood killed two children, medics said. At least six Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two cars in Gaza City’s Sabra neighborhood. Three… Read more →
In one of the most brazen and, at the same time, frank declarations to date, the Israeli Minister of the Interior, Eli Yishai stated regarding the war currently being waged on the Gaza Strip: “The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years.” With these words, he… Read more →
On Sunday evening, November 4th, about 60 friends of Palestine — theatre persons, writers, artists, film makers, academics, students and activists — gathered outside Delhi’s Siri Fort auditorium, the venue for the Israeli state-sponsored performance by The Cameri Theatre. Their form of protest was an unusual one. All of them wore T shirts which said, in bold black letters on… Read more →
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison, where a million and a… Read more →