Barack Obama

Investigate Israel's killing of US teen, rights group tells Obama

Barack Obama has maintained silence over Israel’s 2009 killing of Furkan Doğan on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara.

Weddady's Free Arabs, American Islamic Congress and the pro-Israel funders who helped them rise

Max Blumenthal
New York City
7 May 2013

A group that rose with US government and Israel lobby funding during the early stages of the Iraq war incubated the controversial new website “Free Arabs.”

Protest tents spring up across the West Bank

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
15 April 2013

New “villages” build on opposition to US support for Israeli apartheid voiced during Obama’s visit.

Book review: Rashid Khalidi shows how US got hired as Israel's lawyer

Rod Such
7 April 2013

American diplomats were so eager to please Israel that they became “more royalist than the King.”

Obama makes fun of heckler asking "who killed Rachel Corrie?"

Rabeea Eid, the Palestinian who interrupted Obama’s speech, says it’s necessary to make sure that the US presidential visit isn’t treated as something “normal.”

Waiting for Obama in Ramallah

“Don’t say these words,” the policeman almost whispered. “It’s enough that you’re looking at me with such furious emotion in your eyes, but please don’t call me a traitor.”

Obama won't bring peace to Palestine

Miko Peled
19 March 2013

The US will continue to pay for Israel to do what it wants.

Veteran prisoner Maher Younis goes on hunger strike

Maher Younis has been in prison for 31 years; in a message from Gilboa jail, his fellow detainees are demanding his release.

Why Obama won't take on Israel

Jonathan Cook
15 November 2012

Thinking that the US president will alter his Middle East policy is fanciful.

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