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UN Official Resigns after Pressure to Withdraw Israel Apartheid Report

By Ali Abunimah on March 17, 2017

A senior United Nations official has resigned, following pressure from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to withdraw the landmark report published earlier this week finding Israel guilty of apartheid. (more…)

Activist and Writer Basil al-Araj Assassinated by Israeli Occupation Forces

March 6, 2017

 

In a pre-dawn raid attacking a home in el-Bireh, Basil al-Araj, 31, Palestinian youth activist and writer pursued by Israel for nearly a year, was assassinated by invading Israeli occupation forces this morning. (more…)

Gaza Report: “Not About Justice for Israel’s Victims”

By Jonathan Cook on March 3, 2017

Photo: Bill Hackwell

The Israeli leadership shows no signs of heeding the lessons of an official report into the 2014 Gaza war that led to massive destruction and loss of life in the tiny coastal enclave, Palestinians warned this week. (more…)

Forget Oscar: Give The White Helmets the Leni Riefenstahl Award for Best War Propaganda Film

By Patrick Henningsen on March 2, 2017

Helene Bertha Amalie ”Leni” Riefenstahl was a German film director and propagandist for the Nazis. In the 1930s, she directed Triumph des Willens (“Triumph of the Will”) and Olympia, resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. (more…)

The West’s Moral Hypocrisy on Yemen

By Jonathan Marshall on February 23, 2017

Only a few months ago, interventionists were demanding a militant response by Washington to what George Soros branded“a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions” — (more…)

One of the Nastiest Wars in Recent History Is Raging in Yemen—And the U.S. Is Heavily Involved in It

By Vijay Prashad on February 8, 2017

A United Nations Panel of Experts sent its report to the UN Security Council this week. The tenor of the report is bleak. Yemen, say the experts, is ‘in danger of fracturing beyond the point of no return’. (more…)

Palestinian Children Traumatized in Israeli Jails

February 14, 2017

A Palestinian academic sounded the alarm over the preplanned tactics of psycho-physical torture perpetrated against Palestinian children in Israeli jails. (more…)

Iran Hawks Take the White House

By Philip Giraldi on February 11, 2017

The United States is adding new sanctions on Iran over that country’s alleged misdeeds, and nearly all of those allegations are either out-and-out lies or half-truths. (more…)

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