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After 70 years of abuse, a definition of anti-Palestinian racism

No to racism and Zionism Stuart Littlewood highlights a newly-published definition of anti-Palestinian racism, and an authoritative study which shows the extent of the disinformation campaign behind the claims of “anti-Semitism” in the UK Labour Party. Read more [...]

Everyone washes their hands as Gaza’s economy goes into freefall

Gaza catastrophe Jonathan Cook argues that none of the parties involved with the Gaza Strip is prepared to make a priority of its welfare, and explains why reconciliation between Hamas and Palestinian Authority Chaorman Mahmud Abbas is as far off as ever. Read more [...]

Corbyn’s Labour Party is being made to fail – by design

Corbyn capitulates to Zionists Jonathan Cook says by adopting the full Zionist definition of ‘anti-Semitism’, the UK Labour Party “will jettison the principle of free speech and curtail critical debate about… Israel’, and with it betray its grassroots supporters and Palestinian victims of Israeli crimes. Read more [...]

Israeli food theft as a form of genocide of Palestinian culture

Palestinian cuisine Lawrence Davidson says Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian cuisine is part of a process of systematically erasing indigenous Palestinian culture so that Palestine will no longer be identified with Palestinian culture and traditions, which will be replaced by those of the Israeli colonisers. Read more [...]

The holocaust and its deniers

Holocaust and its deniers Gilad Atzmon writes: In the aftermath Read more [...]

Yasser Arafat, the leader I knew

Yasser Arafat Jamal Kanj remembers Yasser Arafat on the 13th anniversary of his death as a strong leader with a common touch who “accentuated Palestinian nationalism over pan-Arabism and secularism over religion.” Read more [...]

Mahmoud Abbas is no Yasser Arafat. He must go.

Abbas is no Arafat Stuart Littlewood explains why Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas – and indeed the PA itself – have outlived any useful function they might have had – and should now step aside and make way for more competent leaders. Read more [...]

Israel’s efforts to hide Palestinians from view no longer fools young American Jews

Jewish and Palestinian anti-occupation activists Jonathan Cook says US Jewry are becoming polarised, between an older generation whose ignorance allows them to advocate unthinkingly for Israel and a young generation whose knowledge has brought with it a sense of responsibility. Read more [...]

Why Palestinian President Abbas fears the prisoners’ hunger strike

Marwan Barghouti in handcuffs Jonathan Cook explains why the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike, and possible mass disobedience that may flow from it, threaten to undermine Abbas’s approach of reliance on Israel’s Western friends to achieve Palestinian statehood. Read more [...]

Palestinian-American writer explains why he will vote for Jewish candidate in US presidential election

Jamal Kanj Jamal Kanj writes: … Today, American Read more [...]