For many years, Israel & its partisans have pushed the US to attack Iran. Recently they’ve used the Afghan exit to promote policies that could escalate into another disastrous, failed war. Some analysts from across the political spectrum have opposed these dangerous efforts, including Wesley Clark on Democracy Now, CounterPunch writers, Tucker Carlson, & Patrick Buchanan (videos)…
After Israeli forces invaded a neighborhood near Nablus, they fired live rounds, killing one Palestinian protester; others were injured as the soldiers caused havoc in the town.
The latest victim of Israeli violence was Jamil Abu “Ayyash, age 32, killed with a bullet to the back of the head while participating in a peaceful protest and posing no threat.
14 years ago, they got engaged. He spent 13 years in an Israeli prison, and now has died – apparently from deliberate medical neglect by Israeli prison authorities.
In two decades, Palestinian prisoners have lodged 1,300 complaints of torture – yet not one Shin Bet interrogator has been indicted. This human rights advocate calls for interrogations to be video taped.
Israeli police repeatedly spray skunk water in Palestinian East Jerusalem, making life unbearable for Palestinian business owners and dangerous for all residents.
Israel is silencing Palestinian human rights groups that expose the cruelty of Israel’s occupation – as usual, with no proof, and with an eye to ending the international funding that helps the Palestinian people survive.
Longtime advocate for Palestinian rights Rep. Betty McCollum joined with many others worldwide in condemning Israel’s effort to demonize and silence Palestinian human rights organizations. So far just nine Congress members have added their names to McCollum’s resolution, H.Res.751.
An ultra-nationalist Israeli lawmaker’s behavior on Tuesday is a microcosm of the conduct and attitude of Israel as a whole: bullying, self-absorbed, faux-victimized, evasive.
The mother of the three-month-old infant waited eight hours for an interpreter to arrive for her interrogation… a few days earlier she had been attacked by Israeli settlers…