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Occupation forces carried out a widespread demolition operation across the West Bank. Communities in the Jordan Valley were the hardest hit, although people in the Qalqilya district were also affected. Full report from Stop the […]

Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn  19 March 2008 Extracts: How did the people – the senatus populusque Romanus of our modern world – not rise up in […]

For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the […]

   Israeli strategy of collective punishment: No incomes, no jobs fishermen not allowed to fish – 80% under poverty line – unemployment soaring – Egyptian regime fencing in their aprt of the border – prices […]

Hamas popularity on the rise: poll RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — The popularity of Hamas has risen in recent months since the Gaza Strip’s border breach with Egypt, deadly Israeli strikes and the lack of […]

It’s Not Either / Or – The Israel Lobby  05.01.2006 by Norman G. Finkelstein In the current fractious debate over the role of the Israel Lobby in the formulation and execution of US policies in […]

Survivors’ protest makes foreign journalists gasp, by Daniel Ben Simon Haaretz 07.08.2007 a Jewish state apparently at war with Jewish Holocaust survivors, who were angrily protesting what they considered a miserable stipend offer from the […]

  Norman G. Finkelstein’s original article  A central thesis of my book Beyond Chutzpah is that whenever Israel faces a public relations debacle its apologists sound the alarm that a "new anti-Semitism" is upon us. […]

Life in the ‘open prison’ of Gaza by Aleem Maqbool BBC News, Gaza This is a tiny strip of land and its life is being drained out of it. For years, the spirit of those […]

Militant’s death unites Bethlehem Stalled peace process fuels support for Hizbollah Toni O’Loughlin in Bethlehem The Observer, Sunday March 16 2008 Outside Betlehem’s Nativity Church, Christians yesterday queued not to celebrate the birth they believe […]