Palestine Blogs

In the late 1950s, my father would drop by Reynolds paper shop in Maidstone High Street to buy pipe tobacco for himself and comics for me. War comics, 64 pages of pocket-sized violence in which...

Weak, desperate  and vulnerable to Israeli and western pressure, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas has decided to resume what seems to be another  futile round of so-called “peace...

29 August 2010 | The Guardian 60 actors, writers and directors argue that performing in occupied territories would legitimize illegal settlements Dozens of Israeli actors, playwrights and...

At a time of increasing settler violence in the West Bank, the International Solidarity Movement is issuing an urgent call for volunteers to participate in the 2010 Olive Harvest Campaign at the...

Ismail Haniyeh, senior political leader of Hamas, visited a house in Gaza which is considered to be one of the poorest homes of refugees in the Gaza Strip – A family of 8 which is confined to...

Today, a personal story of a national tragedy. Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a Syrian-born New Orleans building contractor, stayed in the city while his...

An ambulance is stopped, and the sick people inside brought out to explain their ailments. A mother is separated from her very young children. Young Palestinians laugh and throw snowballs at Israeli...

Cevdet Kiliçlar, De 38 años fue asesinado por el ejercito israeli durante el asalto a la flotilla de la libertad,dejando esposa e hija, vinculado con la organización humanitaria IHH particdipo...

Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently. In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed more than 400 Palestinian children. In May 2010, bumbling...

A senior advisor to US special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has threatened Lebanese army commander, Jean Qahwaji that should his army initiate additional fire exchanges with Israel, the...

27 August 2010 The West Bank village of Bil’in has become a symbol of the wider popular resistance movement in Palestine. Abdallah Abu Rahmah, head of Bi’in’s Popular Committee, is...

Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students in classes. Ethiopian Jewish...

26 August 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Violence has swept through Wadi Hilweh again as Israeli settler security guards attempted to storm the neighborhood mosque last night, in what...

It’s starting to feel like our economic problems are never going to end. Yes, I know Obama keeps insisting that things are improving, but the numbers tell a different story. Home sales are lower...

We, the Palestinians, have a voice; a strong one that never tires no matter the deafness or the silence of the world. We speak of our suffering, aspirations and hopes when all others are silent. We...

25 August 2010 | Popular Struggle UPDATE: Baroness Ashton condemns Bil’in leader’s conviction; Attorney: “International community must take a tough stand on human rights...

Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups. The...

The company building a light railway across Jerusalem is considering segregating some carriages along gender lines to serve the city’s ultra-orthodox Jewish population. The railway, which is...

The following was submitted to Political Theatrics by Kourosh Ziabari, Freelance journalist from Iran. As the racist regime of Israel moves toward greater international isolation due to its...

Can Israel survive its recent battering in public opinion? Many believe that this may be a defining moment in a long history of Israeli impunity. Hitherto, Israel’s record of recovery from...