24 July 2010
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) — Nasser Abdulhadi is a mild-mannered man who runs a restaurant. He was always known as the jovial sort. One day, his friends say, he stopped being jovial. He chose instead to fight for a world title for one of his country’s national dishes, and through that to gain worldwide recognition for Palestine. Read more about Palestinians break records to reclaim culture
23 July 2010
The International Trade Union Confederation’s annual survey released in June describes repression meted out to Palestinian workers and trade unionists by both the Israeli authorities and the Palestinian factions. But ITUC’s omissions and brevity both disguise the complexity of life for Palestinian workers, and reveal some of the union confederation’s own biases. Sarah Irving analyzes for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about International labor report's omissions reveal pro-Israel bias
22 July 2010
Having been stripped of parliamentary privileges for participating in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Haneen Zoabi describes the “fascist atmosphere” inside Israel. Max Blumenthal interviews for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Haneen Zoabi: The largest threat to Zionism is democracy
25 July 2010
The small volume The Punishment of Gaza provides a selection of Gideon Levy’s columns on Gaza in Israeli daily Haaretz since 2006. But does its publication reflect a bias against Palestinian and other Arab voices in the publishing industry? Asa Winstanley reviews for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Book review: Gideon Levy and the Western media elite
21 July 2010
There has been a strong revival in recent years of support among Palestinians for a one-state solution in historic Palestine. One might expect that any support for a single state among Israeli Jews would come from the far left. Recently, proposals to grant Israeli citizenship to Palestinians in the West Bank have emerged from a surprising direction: right-wing stalwarts. Ali Abunimah comments. Read more about Israelis embrace one-state solution from unexpected direction
20 July 2010
On 21 June 2010, the Supreme Court ruled to continue to authorize prosecutions of charities under the Material Support provision, disappointing families and supporters of the Holy Land Five and troubling US-based organizations that directly support grassroots humanitarian programs in the Middle East. Read more about Holy Land 5 case reveals double standard in enforcement of US law
20 July 2010
A 10-minute video segment originally broadcast in Hebrew on Israel’s Channel 10 threatens to gravely embarrass not only Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but also the US administration of Barack Obama. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Video: Netanyahu brags he deceived US to destroy Oslo accords
20 July 2010
Director Julia Bacha pieces together a lovely film exploring the evolution of the West Bank village of Budrus’ resistance to Israel’s wall, and its reclaiming of its destiny. Jimmy Johnson reviews for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about The story of a people's resistance told in "Budrus"
20 July 2010
As owner of 13 percent of land in Israel, and the organization that appoints the largest number of people to the Israel Lands Authority board of directors (6 out of 13), the Jewish National Fund is the central pillar of Israel’s regime over land. Hazem Jamjoum analyzes. Read more about Challenging the Jewish National Fund
20 July 2010
The action that we recently undertook on the terrain of the old Warsaw Ghetto — to spray the words “Liberate all ghettos” in Hebrew and “Free Gaza and Palestine” in English — has been used by some commentators in Israel and the Jewish community in Poland to accuse us of anti-Semitism. Ewa Jasiewicz and Yonatan Shapira comment for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Liberate all ghettos