Benjamin Netanyahu

Interview: Mazin Qumsiyeh on popular resistance and breaking the spell of fear

David Cronin
16 June 2011
David Cronin interviews Palestinian activist Mazin Qumsiyeh, author of the new book Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, on the popular struggle in the occupied West Bank and his experience being arrested and detained by Israeli forces.

Israel plans to forcibly transfer 40,000 Bedouin citizens

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
16 June 2011
A new Israeli proposal that would forcibly transfer more than 40,000 Bedouin citizens into government-planned townships in the Negev (Naqab) desert has raised the ire of Bedouin communities and their supporters, who say that the plan is both discriminatory and ignores the Bedouins’ historic connection to the land.

US citizen in Jerusalem arrest video speaks to EI

Maureen Clare Murphy
14 June 2011
Lucas Koerner, the young American Jewish university student shown violently arrested in a Jerusalem Day video, speaks to The Electronic Intifada about his activism and what happened after his arrest.

The case for UN recognition of Palestine

Victor Kattan
13 June 2011
Victor Kattan argues that UN membership for a State of Palestine would be a strategic asset to the Palestinian struggle for self-determination, although there are risks involved.

Life in Jordan Valley strangled by Israeli military control

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
8 June 2011
For Abd al-Rahim Bisharat, Israel’s goal of taking full and permanent control of the Jordan Valley is clear. “Their goal is that they want us [to] get tired of our land and leave it so that they can expand the settlements.”

Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is responsible say Israel, US

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 00:55
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the 1967 occupation of Arab lands.

On Naksa Day, Palestinians carry on popular struggle

Eva Bartlett
Beit Hanoun
6 June 2011
While Lebanon’s Naksa Day demonstrations were prevented by Lebanese security, demonstrations went on throughout the occupied West Bank as well as by Palestine supporters worldwide.

Move Over AIPAC challenges business-as-usual in Washington

Linda Khoury
Washington, DC
3 June 2011
Late last month AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, held its 2011 annual policy conference in Washington, DC. Just across the street hundreds of social justice activists from all corners of the United States, in addition to a handful of internationals, met with the formidable goal of building a counter-force to AIPAC.

Provocation against Palestinians on "Jerusalem day"

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
3 June 2011
As thousands of right-wing Israeli settlers descended on Jerusalem to celebrate the so-called unification of the city this week, Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem were confronted by extreme provocations and the stark reality that their city remains very much divided.

Israeli settlers emboldened by Netanyahu’s US reception

Mel Frykberg
Ramallah
30 May 2011
The leader of Israel’s most right-wing government since the establishment of the state 63 years ago, has returned to Israel with his popularity surging since talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington.

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