On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us forget
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
The most appropriate thing to do on Holocaust Remembrance Day would be to revisit the unforgettable piece written by Yehuda Elkana in Haaretz in the spring of 1988, called “The Need to Forget.” Instead of a thousand Marches of the Living, ...
Notre Dame of Gaza: our mosques and churches are also burning
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود
As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat Refugee Camp, my childhood home in the Gaza Strip.
One-third of Gaza's mosques were destroyed by Israeli ...
No more excuses- Israeli voters have chosen a country that will mirror the brutal regimes of its Arab neighbours
- Robert Fisk
If the west can forgive an Arab government that bombs Yemen, they can go on forgiving an Israeli government that bombs Gaza
So now I guess we’ve all run out of excuses. Bibi Netanyahu’s Israel will not be a new and more right-wing Israel. ...
Bleeding, blindfolded and cuffed, Osama tried to run. Then came the second shot
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Osama Hajajeh, a Palestinian shepherd boy, is in the hospital with serious gunshot wounds to both his legs. Photos of him being shot while trying to flee Israeli commandos, bound and blindfolded, illustrate just how low the IDF has come. 'He's not ...
Israelis celebrate Festival of Freedom as Palestinians suffer acts of wickedness
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
These were the last-minute holiday preparations for Passover. In the Palestinian Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa, Israeli police broke up a soccer match on orders of Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, who claimed it was being held under the ...
On Palestinian Prisoner Day: A whole captive population longing for freedom
- Youssef M. Aljamal يوسف م. الجمل
NEWSFLASH!! Palestinian prisoners just ended their mass, open-ended hunger strike after they managed to force the Israeli Prison Service to install landlines in prisons which will allow them to speak with their families. This is an unprecedented win ...
The unfinished Gaza war: what Netanyahu hopes to gain from attacking Palestinian prisoners
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود
The current violence targeting Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails dates back to January 2. It was then that Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan declared that the “party is over.”
Women gather in front of International ...
Israel’s Eurovision song: an anthem for the Palestinian Great March of Return
- Esther Rapoport
Eurovision, we are told, is an apolitical event. The rules of the competition, laid out on the Eurovision Song Contest’s (ESC) official website states, “ESC is a non-political event. All Participating Broadcasters, including the ...
Wealthy immigrants, Netanyahu and the movie tycoon Arnon Milchan
Israel, a tax haven
- Eve Mykytyn
What connects wealthy immigrants to Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and Arnon Milchan, (Israeli operative and producer of 145 movies including 12 Years a Slave and Pretty Woman)? They are all supporters of an Israeli tax exemption that is designed to encourage ...
United Against Forgiveness
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
The Jewish world is outraged this morning with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who apparently said he believes the crimes of the Holocaust can be forgiven, but not forgotten.
The far-right leader made the comments on Thursday night at ...
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