For former residents of Iqrit, where Israeli forces leveled everything but the church in 1951, religious rituals bind them to a place from which they were expelled.
A Christmas Tree Brings Life to a Destroyed Palestinian Village
Twitter suspends Palestinian journalist Arikat, and media response — silence
Twitter continues its censorship of Palestinians; does new owner Elon Musk need to address the algorithms and individuals still in place responsible for the censorship?
As usual, defense bill gives millions of dollars to Israel, but no one tells Americans
Israeli media report that the 2023 defense spending bill just signed into law contains over $500 million for Israel (just the tip of the iceberg of spending for Israel)… AIPAC commended Congress…
Two Palestinian cancer patients die of Israeli medical neglect
Israel notoriously blocks Palestinian patients, especially in Gaza and in Israeli prisons, from obtaining permission to travel for medical care. Ten have died in 2022.
WATCH: O Little Town of Bethlehem, Palestine
Video by If Americans Knew. All the clips in this video took place in Bethlehem. Read more…
Unholy days and nights in Bethlehem
The “little town of Bethlehem” that we sing about at this time of year is far different from what many of us imagine it to be.
As Twitter censorship is revealed, will Palestine remain canceled?
Twitter’s secret blacklists are being revealed in the new Twitter Files releases. Will the project also investigate Twitter’s suppression of Palestinian content? Twitter’s former chief censor Yoel Roth has tweeted against criticism of Israel. And one of the journalists investigating Twitter’s censorship, Bari Weiss, has been called a “Zionist fanatic of near-unhinged proportions,” – and says she “happily plead[s] guilty as charged.” Weiss has a history of working to cancel people and suppress negative facts about Israel…
Palestinian brothers killed after Israeli settler runs them over
Local media report that the brothers had stopped to change a tire while running errands for their sister’s wedding, when they were deliberately struck by an Israeli settler’s car. The driver then fled the scene.
2 more deaths: Israeli sniper shoots girl, 16, in head; 59-yr-old dies from wounds
An Israeli sniper shot a Palestinian teenage girl in the head during a raid of a Palestinian city; a Palestinian man died of injuries suffered in Gaza last August when Israel bombed his neighborhood.
Social media’s history of suppressing Palestine content
Social media platforms Twitter, Facebook & Instagram have repressed Palestinian voices for years, often at the direction of the Israeli government…