Lebanon

Italy's new foreign minister Emma Bonino wants Israel in EU

Veteran politician regards war criminal Shimon Peres as her friend.

Apologist for apartheid masquerades as human rights activist

Leading campaigner against discrimination with Human Rights First refuses to acknowledge that Israel is an apartheid state.

To where should we return?

Almost 65 years after the Nakba, Palestinian refugees are still being displaced and denied their right of return.

Bridging the gap: the health workers who visit Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon

Anne Irfan
19 March 2013

In Ein al-Hilweh I learned some of the stark realities faced by Palestinian refugees there.

Boycotting Israel is the "way to go," says Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters

David Cronin
Brussels
18 March 2013

Roger Waters is calling on musicians everywhere not to play Tel Aviv.

War criminal Peres honored again by European university

Didier Viviers, head of a Belgian college, has tied himself in knots trying to justify his decision to dine with the Israeli president.

Palestinians shouldn't be covered in "blanket of sadness," says poet

Sarah Irving
27 February 2013

Protest and poetry are “inseparable twins,” according to a new Al Jazeera documentary series.

Arms dealer caught telling lies over exports to Israel

Freddy Versluys, an influential arms trade lobbyist in Belgium, claims he hasn’t sold weapons to Israel for 15 or 20 years; papers from the Flemish authorities suggest otherwise.

Abba Eban's comments on the idiocy of hasbara just as true three decades later

Israeli politician and diplomat realized no PR campaign could mitigate negative public opinion after Israel’s deadly invasion of Beirut in 1982.

Emerging from an “age of defeat”: interview with poet Ghassan Zaqtan

Lauren Pyott
Edinburgh
7 December 2012

Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s shattered Palestinian dreams.

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