Refusing to eat: How Maher al-Akhras is resisting Israel’s administrative detention
Neve Gordon
Middle East Eye / October 29, 2020
The Palestinian father of six has spent months on hunger strike to oppose administrative detention and, by extension, the colonial regime that enforces it.
Facing imminent death, 49-year-old Maher al-Akhras has been refusing to eat in prison for more than three months. The...
Trump’s normalisation of Israel spreads to Africa
Patrick Gathara
Al-Jazeera / October 31, 2020
Trump’s ‘peace deals’ and ‘normalisation’ efforts are hurting not only Palestinians, but all who hope for a moral international order.
The announcement by US President Donald Trump of an apparent thaw in relations – “normalisation” in the current parlance – between Israel and...
Israel lobby slaughters Corbyn again
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / October 30, 2020
After a five-year campaign of smears, Labour’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn was suspended by party bosses on Thursday.
The draconian move, sanctioned by current leader Keir Starmer, caused a wave of shock among beleaguered activists.
There is “no need for a civil war,” Starmer insisted...
Gaza’s chronic sufferers see no light at end of tunnel
Ruwaida Amer
The Electronic Intifada / October 30, 2020
The Gaza Strip is slowly and gingerly emerging from another full pandemic lockdown.
But the pain is far from over, especially for those suffering chronic illnesses in an area in which the health sector has been systematically undermined over 13 years...
‘They Tried to Freeze Me to Death’: Torture and Resistance in Israeli Prisons
Ramzy Baroud & Mohammed al-Deirawi
The Palestine Chronicle / October 29, 202o
Mohammad Ibrahim Ali al-Deirawi was born on January 30, 1978 in Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. His family is originally from Bir al-Saba’, an ethnically cleansed Palestinian town located in the southern Naqab desert.
Mohammad was...
Israel asks Italy to persuade PA to return to negotiating table
Midle East Monitor / October 31, 2020
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi has asked his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio to persuade the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s leadership to return to the negotiating table, news agencies reported on Thursday.
“The Abraham Accords are a window of opportunity to renew talks with the...
