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New evidence about Amina, the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 06/12/2011 - 09:24

Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty have gathered compelling new evidence regarding the “Gay Girl in Damascus” blogger hoax.

UK 'anti-Sharia' legislator backed Israel group calling for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 21:29

A UK legislator who has introduced an ‘anti-Sharia’ bill into the UK parliament supposedly in the name of equality is co-president of an Israeli organization that favors expulsion of Palestinians, denies the Nakba, and espouses extreme anti-Muslim views.

Busting the myth of the West Bank "economic boom"

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 16:29

One of the big lies that the peace process industry has been telling for the past few years is of an economic boom in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, brought about by the supposedly competent, technocratic rule of the handpicked, US-backed “prime minister” Salam Fayyad and the Palestinian Authority.

Saeb Erekat denies Washington Post claim Palestinians dropped settlement freeze demand

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 06/08/2011 - 00:36

The PLO “chief negotiator” Saeb Erekat has categorically denied a report in The Washington Post suggesting that the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership that he represents has dropped its insistence that Israel halt settlement construction in the occupied West Bank before resuming US-brokered negotiations with Israel.

Update on protests, killings in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 17:26

More information is emerging about events in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus, Syria.

Mass shooting reported in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria - video

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 22:24

Disturbing reports have emerged that a large number of Palestinians have been killed in a shooting in Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria.

If Arabs were Germans and Israel's frontiers were the Berlin Wall

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 00:20

Those marching to Israeli-controlled frontiers of Palestine should be seen in the same light as Germans who tore down the Berlin Wall.

Video: Marchers rescue injured people, bodies in occupied Golan Heights

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 16:44


A video posted on YouTube by the website Baladee.net shows marchers trying to evacuate injured and possibly dead people in the Golan Heights today after Israeli forces opened fired on marchers commemorating the 44th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of area which is part of Syria.

Video: What is really happening at Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 13:53


A video produced by activists in Gaza shows the frustrations of Palestinians prevented from crossing through the Rafah border gate into Egypt, despite the announcement with much fanfare last week that the border would be permanently opened.

Israel posts video threatening to shoot marchers in occupied Syria

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 12:21

The Israeli military has posted a video on YouTube threatening violence against unarmed protestors in Syria’s Golan Heights.

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