Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) featured our 2012 article: A New York Times’ headline reported that Palestinians in Gaza attacked Israel first. But the article itself explained that the rockets only came after Israelis attacked Gaza with an airstrike first, killing a Palestinian and injuring several others.
Analyst Jack Dresser discusses the Israel connection to Mideast wars, the injustice of a “two-state solution,” Israel’s loss of full control, the role of Jewish organizations in the Palestine rights movement, JVP President Vilkomerson’s husband’s employment at Israeli security company Check Point, and to what degree such groups will embrace a “transformative vision”…
Israel is refusing to extradite the man, who made threats to 2,000 different institutions around the world, schools, malls, police stations, hospitals and airlines… JVP’s Alissa Wise had earlier said that Trump’s suggestion that the JCC bomb threats could have been made by a Jew was “a truly disgusting form of victim-blaming…” Kaydar reported to have earned $240,000 from his threats…
Over 1,500 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on April 17. Israel responded by placing Marwan Barghouti, the movement’s leader, in solitary confinement, and said it will not negotiate with the prisoners.
Ha’aretz: A mother of 10 has been incapacitated since Israeli soldiers shot her 13 years ago, as she stood in her living room. Neither she nor any of thousands of other noncombatants hurt by the army is eligible for compensation…
Israeli authorities have detained approximately one million Palestinians since the establishment of Israel, according to a statement by the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)…
Israel is threatening to demolish the home of Abbas Qar’an, his wife, and their four children, which was built in 1960. Two other anti-occupation activists’ families have received similar demolition notices.
Over 100 men, women and children were murdered by members of the Zionist terror groups Irgun and Stern Gang at Deir Yassin. The massacre was part of “Plan Dalet,” an ethnic cleansing operation designed to remove non-Jewish inhabitants from historic Palestine in order to create a Jewish state.
By Ziad Hafez, Contemporary Arab Affairs — This short book is quite powerful and displays historical accounts and analyses supported by a solid documentation showing scholarly knowledge and objective reporting. It is an indispensable tool for any researcher on the root cause of Middle Eastern turmoil, and contains explosive, meticulously documented information about the Zionist movement in the United States, Europe, and Palestine…
Fourteen years ago this month, Tom Hurndall, a 22-year old student and photographer, was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper in Gaza as he tried to rescue small Palestinian girls from Israeli gunfire.