Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD We lost the good voice of historian, intellectual and activist, Prof. Howard Zinn. I met Zinn twice while in the US. I read two of his books and hope to have time some day to read the others. Zinn was not happy with Zionism and frequently criticized the Zionist atrocities, from massacres in [...]
Settlers seek to recruit Indian immigrants Jonathan Cook in Nazareth The Israeli government is reported to have quietly approved the fast-track immigration of 7,000 members of a supposedly “lost Jewish” tribe, known as the Bnei Menashe, currently living in a remote area of India. Under the plan, the “lost Jews” would be brought to [...]
[Doctor Howard Zinn died of a heart attack on January 27, at the age of 87. A well-beloved figure, the author, historian, educator, and social-activist was best known for his tome, A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. The telling of American history begins with vivid descriptions of the arrival of Christopher Columbus and [...]
Blaine Coleman Was there any excuse for a bunch of armed European settlers to occupy Palestine? No. Was there any excuse for those armed gangs—now called the “Israel Defense Forces”– to ally themselves with the most racist regimes on Earth, including Apartheid South Africa? No. Was there any excuse for handing $300 billion to Israel, [...]
Palestine Monitor 28 January 2010 In the early hours of Thursday morning, Mohammed Khatib of the Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee was arrested in his Bi’lin home. In the latest in a series of similar arrests, Israeli soldiers stormed the house and took Khatib on charges of incitement. ‘Incitement materials’ were taken from his home. Khatib [...]
Jonathan Cook in Nazareth An Arab member of the Israeli parliament has sparked controversy among Jews and Arabs in Israel over his decision to join an official Israeli delegation commemorating International Holocaust Day today at a Nazi death camp in Poland. Mohammed Barakeh will be the only Arab in a contingent of Israeli parliamentarians [...]
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, approved last week the upgrading to university status of a college in a settlement located deep inside the West Bank, a move certain to further undermine Palestinian confidence in the peace process. The decision, authorising the first Israeli university in Palestinian territory, is expected to [...]
Stephen Lendman Established in 1989, the MA’AN Development Center is “an independent Palestinian development and training institution….work(ing) towards sustainable human development in Palestine” through its various programs. On October 31, it released a publication on the Palestinian BDS campaign titled, “Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions: Lessons learned in effective solidarity.” It’s another of the many BDS [...]
Stuart Littlewood Its mission statement says: “Trust is the foundation of the BBC: we are independent, impartial and honest.” However, people are complaining bitterly to the BBC about its pro-Israel stance when reporting on the situation in the Holy Land. Once renowned as the benchmark for fairness and accuracy, the BBC nowadays is careless with [...]
Juan Cole - http://www.juancole.com/ When a relief plane for the Physicians without Borders isn’t allowed to land by US military authorities at the airport in Port-au-Prince, there is an outcry. But Israeli military authorities will not allow any relief planes at all to land in the Gaza Strip (the Israelis destroyed Gaza’s airport in 2001). We cheer [...]
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