The crimes of the Nazis are not Palestine’s problem
Osama Abu Irshaid
The Electronic Intifada / October 4, 2023
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is no stranger to absurd statements that demonstrate a lack of wisdom or depth. Nor are his policies and actions easy to interpret or justifiable in the larger context of the Palestinian struggle for...
Israel: far-right Minister Ben-Gvir leads cell raid at Gilboa Prison
Middle East Monitor / October 4, 2023
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir led occupation forces on a raid of cells in Gilboa Prison yesterday, WAFA has reported.
Sound bombs were used against Palestinian prisoners during the raid at the high-security prison, when thorough searches of cells were carried out.
According...
Jewish settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on fifth day of Sukkot
Al-Jazeera / October 4, 2023
Jewish settlers have stormed the complex in groups and attempted to perform ‘Talmudic rituals’, according to a Waqf official.
Dozens of settlers have forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem to mark the fifth day of Sukkot, according...
Palestinian detainees launch hunger strike in solidarity with
Middle East Monitor / October 4, 2023
Palestinian administrative detainees in Israeli prisons will be staging a one-day hunger strike tomorrow in solidarity with Kayed al-Fasfous, a Palestinian prisoner on his 62nd day of hunger strike.
Al-Fasfous, 34, is protesting against his administrative detention – being held without charge or trial – and...
A visa program exception for Israel
Alex Kane
Jewish Currents / October 3, 2023
The US has admitted Israel into the Visa Waiver Program even though the country continues to discriminate against Palestinian American travelers.
On September 27th, Israel saw a decade-long quest come to fruition when the United States Department of Homeland Security and State Department announced that...
Jewish-Israeli herders spread across West Bank, displacing Palestinians
Patrick Kingsley & Hiba Yazbek
The New York Times / October 3, 2023
Patrick Kingsley, Hiba Yazbek and Gabby Sobelman visited abandoned Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements across the central highlands of the Israeli-occupied West Bank to report this article.
Palestinian herding communities are abandoning their villages, ceding huge swaths...
Only anti-Zionists are real supporters of Palestine
Tony Greenstein
The Electronic Intifada / October 3, 2023
The statement that you can’t be a supporter of the Palestinians unless you are an anti-Zionist may seem dogmatic, even sectarian to some.
But it is the failure of Britain’s Palestine solidarity movement to understand this simple truth which is responsible...
PA denies Israel offered economic measures to prevent its collapse
Middle East Monitor / October 3, 2023
The Palestinian Authority denied on Monday reports in the Hebrew-language media that the Israeli government has offered economic incentives and financial aid to prevent its collapse.
“Contrary to what was reported in the Israeli press, the current Israeli government has doubled its illegal...
Israel: racist Jewish settler group misusing charitable funds to displace Palestinians
Middle East Monitor / October 3, 2023
Charitable donations from the US, Canada, UK and elsewhere are funding violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, the Campaign to Defund Racism has revealed in its new investigative report. The organization uncovered details of how an extremist Israeli organization called...
Israel Ben-Gvir calls for keeping Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa complex open for Jews 24/7
Middle East Monitor / October 3, 2023
Israel’s far-right Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, on Tuesday called for allowing illegal settlers into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Occupied East Jerusalem around the clock, Anadolu Agency reports.
More than 500 settlers entered the flashpoint site on Tuesday on the fourth...
