Lectures

The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has criticized the leader of Fatah movement and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, for his decision to resume security coordination with Israel, nearly a month after the two movements reached a landmark national reconciliation deal. The move by the Palestinian Authority (PA) “distorts the …

Israeli forces have attacked a group of Palestinian students, who planned to hold a ceremony to mark the death anniversary of Yasser Arafat, the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), in the occupied West Bank. On Thursday, Israeli forces stormed several schools in Ramallah and prevented Palestinian students …

The Israeli military says it is withholding the bodies of five resistance fighters, which were recovered after Israeli fighter jets bombarded and destroyed a lifeline tunnel in the southern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.  “We are indeed in possession of those bodies … All were killed or died inside …

Israel has launched its largest aerial exercise ever with air forces from India and seven other countries taking part, the Times of Israel reported.   The military exercise, dubbed Blue Flag, began at the Israeli Air Force’s Ovda base, north of Eilat, on Sunday, the paper said. According to the Israeli …

The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel of supporting terrorist groups in Syria after Tel Aviv threatened to directly intervene in the war following an elaborate attack on a Syrian Druze village. The Israeli military on Friday threatened to launch an incursion into Syria “to protect” residents in Hader, which is populated by the Arab …

Israeli officials are expected to advance plans for the construction of nearly 300 new settler units in East Jerusalem al-Quds irrespective of the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in occupied Palestinian territories. The so-called Jerusalem Local Planning and Building Committee is going to issue permits …

Clashes erupted in the occupied East Al-Quds (Jerusalem-area) village of al-Issawiya on Thursday evening after Israeli occupation forces took down a sit-in tent set up in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. Member of a local follow-up committee Muhammad Abu al-Hummus told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided the village from several …

What do you call an organization that teaches children an exclusive religious or ethnic nationalism and promotes war and other forms of violence to get its way? Many people would say an extremist group or a right-wing cult. Many people would think we were talking about something like the Ku …

Eran Efrati spent years as a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid. Efrati gives explosive testimony on the reality of his service and explains how war crimes are institutionalised, as well as how …

The 8 March international women’s strike is an unprecedented opportunity for people to stand against Islamophobia and Israeli apartheid, while supporting Palestinian self-determination. The strike call for a “feminism for the 99 percent” includes explicit demands for an “anti-racist, anti-colonial feminism,” the decolonization of Palestinian land and the tearing down of …