The Palestinian government has called on the United Nations and foreign states with citizens serving in the Israeli army to investigate and try them for war crimes committed during Israel’s latest onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban ...
Read More »Boycott, divestment and sanctions against the Zionist regime turning mainstream
Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson’s Sodastream fiasco didn’t grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli universities did, or Netanyahu’s increasing talk of million-dollar PR campaigns, legal offensives and diplomacy efforts to counter the BDS threat. Opinion pages are filled with debate, John Kerry has warned ...
Read More »Palestinian mother of 7, bombings survivor, documents Israeli war crimes
To mark the fifth anniversary of Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli military campaign against the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian women’s organization has published a book with details of the deaths of children and women in 89 Palestinian families. Much of the credit for the publication goes to Ibtisam Saymah, a ...
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