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Biblical stories are uncorroborated

8 July 2012

Gabriel Piterburg on Facts on the Ground By Nadia Abu El-Haj“…she has been vindicated by Israeli archaeologists themselves. A group of Israeli archaeologists that had been sent after the 1967 war by the state to […]

The prevalence of torture in 1988

7 July 2012

(from Chapter 10, The Hidden History of Zionism, The Prevalence of Torture) The use of torture in Israeli prisons has been the subject of extensive inquiry. In 1977, the London Sunday Times conducted a five-month […]

Looted Palestinian books, labelled 'absentee property'

Israel’s war on Palestinian culture

7 July 2012

by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon 24 Oct 2011 In a new article made available today by the journal Jerusalem Quarterly, activist and The Electronic Intifada contributor Hannah Mermelstein discusses a lesser known part of […]

Israeli police blocking participants and audience from entering the Palestine National Theater in E. Jerusalem

Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival

7 July 2012

Rory McCarthy, Jerusalem, Guardian, May 24th 2009 Shortly before the opening event was due to begin, a squad of around a dozen Israeli border police walked into the Palestinian National Theatre, in East Jerusalem, and […]

Mo’taz Ali Ash-Shawwaf, aged 6, killed Saturday June 23, when the Israeli army shelled a playground east of Khan Younis.

16 Palestinians, including 4 children, killed in one week

27 June 2012

IMEMC 24 June — Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one resident was killed, and ten others were wounded, when the Israeli army bombarded, on Saturday evening, an area West of Gaza […]

The Independent; pogroms and apartheid in a land “for the White Man”

25 June 2012

“Israel is for the White Man” – Note to refugees from South SudanRichard Sudan in the Independent 22 June 2012 “Note to refugees from South Sudan: Israel is for the white man.” These were the […]

Israel is new South Africa as boycott calls increase

4 June 2012

Some of the world’s biggest stars – from Madonna to the Red Hot Chili Peppers – are being accused of putting profit before principle in a growing backlash against artists performing in […]

A day in the 64-year life of Israel’s ethnic cleansing programme

22 May 2012

Israel is continuously at work to make life miserable for Palestinians. Murderous settlers work hand-in-glove with a brutal soldiery to murder, maim, burn and destroy Palestinian lives and livelihoods. Below are some of the […]

Israeli soldiers kill innocent Palestinians with official protection

22 May 2012

“My beloved husband, Ziad Jilani, was executed…lying unarmed on the ground…Israeli Border Policeman Maxim Vinogradov shot him point blank in the head…blatant lies in the testimony of the soldier who killed him…the Israeli authorities have closed the case […]

Hebron settler grafitto - 'Gas the Arabs'

Israeli mass demo calling for mass killings of Arabs

12 April 2012

Mass demonstration of Israeli Jewish youth calling for the mass murder of Palestinians, Arabs. Many of the Whiteshirts are serving soldiers with power of life and death over Palestinians. The demonstration was to celebrate the […]