15 May 2011
The Electronic Intifada speaks with Jon Elmer (www.jonelmer.ca), a Canadian independent journalist based in Bethlehem who documented protests in the occupied West Bank today. Read more about Interview: Undercover Israeli soldiers arrest West Bank demonstrators
16 May 2011
Read more about Video: Israeli soldiers arrest Mazin Qumsiyeh during Nakba march
16 May 2011
Read more about Matthew Cassel describes casualties at Lebanon border protest
15 May 2011
A dramatic video published by the website baladee.net shows the moment when hundreds of Palestinian refugees and Syrians break through the border fence from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (part of Syria occupied by Israel in 1967 and illegally annexed in 1981). Read more about Dramatic video shows Palestinians, Syrians entering Israeli-occupied Golan Heights
15 May 2011
The Electronic Intifada has produced this interactive map that allows you to see information about any of the more than 400 Palestinian cities, towns and villages depopulated and destroyed during the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist and later Israeli forces from late 1947 into 1948. Read more about Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed in Nakba
14 May 2011
New York Times bureau chief Ethan Bronner promotes Israeli propaganda that Palestinian refugees were forced from their homes only after Arab armies intervened on 15 May 1948, ignoring the reality that hundreds of thousands had been forced out since December 1947. Read more about Ethan Bronner's Nakba denial in The New York Times
14 May 2011
In an article on Al Jazeera English and in The Guardian today, Ziyad Clot, a former legal advisor to Palestinian negotiators has revealed that he was one of the key sources for thousands of pages documents called the Palestine Papers, published in January by Al Jazeera which detail 10 years of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and US and European intervention, including minutes of conversations with top Israeli, Palestinian, American and other officials. Read more about Palestine Papers whistleblower revealed and Saeb Erekat responds
18 May 2011
In The Political Economy of Aid in Palestine, Sahar Taghdisi-Rad illustrates how aid earmarked for the oppressed often ends up in the oppressor’s pockets. David Cronin reviews. Read more about New book shows how aid to PA ended up in Israel's pockets
13 May 2011
When I Return is an online participatory campaign that features simple notes by Palestinians, Arabs and allies describing what they hope to do when Palestine is free and/or they return to Palestine. It seeks to unleash the internal life of our longing for home, and highlight the imaginative expanse of our dreams. Read more about What will you do when Palestine is free?
Rafah 13 May 2011
A shack made of aluminum sheets and wood, and a few cows and chickens are all that Suleiman al-Urjani, 45, owns in this world. It is the kind of dwelling that al-Urjani, his father Auda and their families have lived in since 1948 when the family was first displaced by Zionist forces from their original home in what is now Israel. Read more about A bedouin refugee in Gaza yearns for home in Bir al-Saba