2017-11-18 17:56
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2017-11-18 17:55
CALLING ON UK TO ADDRESS PALESTINIANS’ RIGHT TO HEALTHToday, MAP and Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights have called on the UK Government to engage with the upcoming Universal Periodi… Read More
2017-11-18 16:35
"Liberal hypocrisy on human rights" - Letter to Jameet Singh from Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Canada
Dear Mr. Singh,Thank you for your email message. I strongly agree with your cri… Read More
2017-11-18 16:12
Israel to Cut Palestinian Village From Water Source in Order to Take Control of Farming LandAfter a checkpoint moves deeper into the Palestinian area, residents of al-Walaja will no longer b… Read More
2017-11-18 16:02
Limited places are left for next year’s Cycle Palestine. Join us for this unforgettable experience; learn about the situation faced by those living under occupation and help… Read More
2017-10-22 21:40
HOUSTON — The city of Dickinson, Texas, is requiring applicants for Hurricane Harvey rebuilding funds to certify in writing that they will not take part in a boycott of Israel. The Ame… Read More
2017-10-22 21:07
On Thursday, October 26 2017, Roger Waters, the creative power and song writing force behind Pink Floyd,
will discuss his evolution as a human rights activist and his su… Read More
2017-09-10 18:57
MEMO - Fadwa Barghouti, the wife of imprisoned Fatah movement official Marwan Barghouti, said earlier this week that Israeli authorities have told her that she is banned from visiting h… Read More
2017-09-10 18:41
Church leaders have condemned Israel for its “systematic attempt to undermine the integrity of the Holy City of Jerusalem and “weaken[ing] the Christian presence” in Palest… Read More
2017-09-10 18:38
Palestinians living near the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus have been told that the sole water pipeline servicing the area will be removed by Israeli occupation… Read More
2017-09-09 14:47
GULF NEWS - The people of the UAE stand with Texans who have been impacted by this disastrous storm,” said Ambassador Al Otaiba. He added: “In times like these, friends… Read More
2017-09-09 14:42
Students are fighting back against a series of sanctions imposed on them by the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as punishment for chanting and clapping during a ca… Read More
2017-08-31 01:08
The Jewish National Fund (JNF) has been the key tool used by Israel to dispossess Palestinians of their lands for over a century. It also discriminates against Palestinian citizens of Israel… Read More
2017-08-10 18:27
Visualizing Palestine, Obstructing Justice
Visualizing Palestine creates data-driven tools to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Its researcher… Read More
2017-05-19 12:55
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, &nbs&hell…Read More
2017-03-03 15:52
What Comes Next I: Then and Now by Subcomandante Insurgente MoisésThis new government system that the compañeros have, it’s small, butthe compañeros are putting sc… Read More
2017-02-24 17:18
24 February, NYC: Protest to free Nael Barghouthi and stop HPby samidoun
Friday, 24 February5:30 pm Best Buy Union Square 52 E. 14th St, NYCFacebook: https://www.fac… Read More
2017-02-24 13:37
24 February, NYC: Protest to free Nael Barghouthi and stop HPby samidoun
Friday, 24 February5:30 pm Best Buy Union Square 52 E. 14th St, NYCFacebook: https://www.fac… Read More
2017-02-20 13:40
Netanyahu just met Donald Trump and they are very friendly. Both are liars. War criminal Netanyahu’s prerequisites for peace are that a) Palestinians recognize the colonial s… Read More
2017-02-20 13:24
We in occupied Palestine continue to be guardedly optimistic even after watching the Kafkaesque political "plays" being performed to confuse the public and keep them in the dark an… Read More
2017-02-12 14:45
HAARETZ – This is a type of anxiety that no Israeli civilian is familiar with: nights when sleep is marred by the noise of soldiers moving about, gunshots, armored vehicles outsi… Read More
2017-02-12 00:00
HAIFA, Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is expected to visit Washington this week to meet with President Trump, presumably to discuss the political philosophy they… Read More
2017-02-11 23:56
Of all the many roadblocks to peace between Israel and its neighbours, none is more contentious, more controversial and more incendiary than the question of civilian settlements.A small numb… Read More
2017-02-11 23:51
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces delivered confiscation notices on Friday for 275 dunams (69 acres) of private Palestinian land on the outskirts of the village of Beituniya in the western… Read More
2017-02-10 07:50
In Case You Missed It.
January 2017 in Numbers3 new rounds of illegal settlement construction were announced by Israel in January. On Jan. 22, the government announced plans f… Read More
2017-02-10 07:40
It just seems things are getting worse in Palestine along with the treatment of the Palestinians and I try to keep hope that all the different movements are slowly helping to bring about cha… Read More
2017-02-10 06:53
[now we know why Trump and his supporters hate the Liberty] The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman: “The New Colossus" was actually born in Egypthttp://www.smith… Read More
2017-02-07 13:42
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- A 17-year-old Palestinian died last week after Israeli authorities refused to allow him to leave the besieged Gaza Strip to undergo treatment for a congenital hear… Read More
2017-02-07 13:41
First the positive news: Large demonstrations in front of 10 Downing street for the Theresa May-Benjamin Netanuyahu visit today. The demonstration was mixed people of all religions… Read More
2017-02-07 13:35
This is actually a very good review in the New York Times of a book that apparently gushes about Israel’s arms industry, The Weapons Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Te… Read More
2017-02-04 15:37
Two western governments (England and Israel) has leadership supporting the Trump administration in a partisan way. This is now a "special relationship" not between countries but between the… Read More
2017-02-03 03:51
Palestinian leaders are fuming over warnings from Trump administration about halting aid and even restoring the PLO to list of terror groups. Not all these would be new policy, as a law auth… Read More
2017-01-30 14:55
Donald Trump in explaining how effective “the wall” between Mexico and the US would be said to “ask Israel”. This is one liar asking us to ask another liar! The facts… Read More
2017-01-30 14:03
Critical Muslim is a journal published in London (website www.criticalmuslim.io) with really good thoughtful articles with a modern intellectual angle. There last issue was on Nature (V… Read More
2017-01-26 17:09
St. Boniface chief medical officer 'shocked and stressed' after losing jobDr. Hussam M. Azzam says he is "shocked and stressed," after he says he was fired as chief medical officer for St. B… Read More
2017-01-26 17:03
The Jewish racist right wing government of Netanyahu just violated international law again by approving 2500 “housing units” for colonial settlers on Palestinian land. The… Read More
2017-01-24 02:10
American Zionists and the Issue of Immigrants - An Analysis (24 January 2017) by Professor Lawrence DavidsonPart I - The Immigrant IssueIt is a strange story. American Jews (and I expect it… Read More
2017-01-24 02:06
"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or an animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on… Read More
2017-01-24 01:32
Obama Releases Appropriated Humanitarian Funds to Palestine that Congress Had Waylaid (Yahoo News)WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours def… Read More
2017-01-24 00:21
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks during a joint press conference with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following their meeting in Cairo, Egypt, January 21, 2016. ReutersChinese Pres… Read More
2017-01-16 18:44
That UN Security Council resolution harshly criticizing Israel’s settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories has revealed sharp divisions among Canadian Zionists. Read more.In… Read More
2017-01-16 18:39
11 homes were demolished by the Israeli occupation authorities in one dayin the village of Qalanswe (occupied in 1948 https://youtu.be/IFMZvMZWpLA). The pace of home demolitions acceler… Read More
2017-01-12 02:53
At Window into Palestine, for the last 20 years - going on 21 this Summer, we have addressed the issues that are important to Palestinians & the globe.
Because we are independent, reader… Read More
2017-01-11 20:32
Witnesses and Palestinian medical teams say police officers prevented them from providing medical care for an hour and a half to Jihan Muhammad Hashimeh, a 35-year-old woman from East Jerusa… Read More
2017-01-11 20:18
Al Jazeera Investigations - The Lobby EP 1
So that you learn how Israel and its Lobby are plotting against Britain and the Brits.
So you learn about our treacherous MPs who are shamelessly… Read More
2017-01-11 20:07
Emad Abu Shamsiyah first started receiving death threats in March, after a video he filmed for Israeli rights group B’Tselem, which captured Israeli soldier Elor Azaria shooting dead A… Read More
2017-01-10 15:42
January 7th is Christmas for my family (Eastern Christian traditions). After we had our large gathering of a few hundred members of the Qumsiyeh clan, and paying visits to my sisters and the… Read More
2017-01-10 15:36
RT – Israel is considering new “balanced” legislation which just about presents Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) with a license to kill without fear of being prosecuted.&l&hell…Read More
2017-01-10 15:30
Meddling in Elections"For many years I have felt that the situation in the Middle East was very nearly hopeless. The fundamental problem for us is that we have lost our freedom of acti… Read More
2017-01-10 15:19
There is no starker proof of the golden chains in which Israel has entangled the British political class, than the incredible fact that “diplomat” Shai Masot has not been expelle… Read More
2017-01-10 15:07
Al Jazeera are to be congratulated on an undercover investigation exposing something most of us could probably have guessed: that some Israeli embassy staff in the UK –… Read More
2017-01-10 14:19
The British rock band Coldplay will play two “peace concerts” for Israelis and Palestinians.
Coldplay to Play 2 Israeli-Palestinian Peace Concerts in West BankGabe FriedmanTh… Read More
2017-01-10 13:55
Dear friends,
Earlier this week an Israeli Embassy official was caught on camera plotting to “take down” MPs who spoke out in support of Palestine, including fore… Read More
2017-01-07 19:23
Peace will be possible when we acknowledge the wrongs of the past, embrace truth, and seek forgiveness and reconciliation.
I visited Canada Park this past weekend and as you will see from… Read More
2017-01-07 18:39
Obama’s UN abstention was only the most recent manifestation of ongoing strategic changes that Trump too won’t want or be able to reverse.Brent Sasley .
We are at the beginn… Read More
2017-01-06 13:27
Israel’s global standing is continuing to deteriorate, a new report from some of the country’s top strategists concludes.“Israel’s image in Western countries continue… Read More
2017-01-06 13:23
News and actions from The Palestine Museum of Natural History and Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University then more general news and actionsWe had vis… Read More
2017-01-05 06:20
That's right Leading Israeli officials have been encouraging soldiers and police officers to kill Palestinians suspected of attacks regardless of whether lethal force is necessary… Read More
2017-01-05 06:02
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2017-01-05 03:37
Round the back of Ramallah's main hospital lies the house of Iyad Haddad, a 52-year-old human rights investigator. His home office is the shopfront of a decrepit building and at fi… Read More
2017-01-05 03:28
With backing from Jerusalem chief rabbi, “The Complete Jewish Home” helps Jewish men marry a second wife, claiming this helps single women have families, counters demographic tre… Read More
2017-01-05 03:23
An Analysis (3 January 2017) by Professor Lawrence DavidsonPart I - Netanyahu Repudiates International LawIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threw a temper tantrum (24 December 2016)… Read More
2017-01-01 20:20
Inspire - Motivate - Educate - Participate Don't Hesitate!
Happy New Year Everyone!
We are moving on to our 21 years this summer. That's right it was in 1996 that we started With Window in… Read More
2016-12-30 13:58
Thomas Merton wrote: "Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ has come uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it –… Read More
2016-12-26 15:23
Will Mahmoud Abbas turn success into failure (again) or will he finally show backbone to use the UNSC resolution to save what remains of Palestine?DEDICATION: This post is dedicated to Moham… Read More
2016-12-26 14:23
Isabel Phiri is first foreigner denied entry because of alleged involvement with Palestinian-led BDS movement
Israel has denied entry to a prominent theologian and academic for her alleged… Read More
2016-12-23 22:04
THANK YOU OBAMA!!!!
In a striking rupture with past practice, the United States allowed the U.N. Security Council on Friday to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerus… Read More
2016-12-23 16:39
Four members of the UN Security Council told Egypt that if it doesn’t move forward with vote on Israeli settlements on Friday they might.
New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia an… Read More
2016-12-23 14:45
[ Ed. note – Ahed Tamimi is the blond-haired Palestinian girl who has been seen in countless videos and who always seems to stand out–not only because of her striking looks and y… Read More
2016-12-23 13:52
The standard Ying and Yang (good and bad) of life goes on“Defenseless under the nightOur world in stupor lies;Yet, dotted everywhere,Ironic points of lightFlash out wherever the JustEx… Read More
2016-12-16 17:38
David Friedman opposes two-state solution, backs undivided Jerusalem as capital and has acted for Trump’s failing hotels
Donald Trump has named as his ambassador to Israel a pro… Read More
2016-12-16 17:23
Thank you, thank you: Hundreds of you wrote to reassure that you do read these messages! Most also stated they like the mix of reporting on what is happening and positive building-up a… Read More
2016-12-13 20:13
Law enforcement officials warn army, saying problem frequently undermines ability to defend soldiers against claims of wanton shootings; IDF: Everything is conducted lawfully.
It is often… Read More
2016-12-07 03:10
The Israel lobby has suffered an epic fail in Canada. An attempt at persuading the country’s Green Party to drop its support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (B… Read More
2016-12-06 15:46
by Dr. Elias Akleh
Zionism is a brutal ethnic–cleansing racist colonial ideology developed in 1896 by Theodore Herzl; an Austrian Jew. Its main goal is the establishment of the Gr… Read More
2016-12-06 15:38
Recently Israel was ablaze. The government was quick to declare the fires ‘arson’ set by Palestinians to destroy the land ….But the reality is ….“Only he to w… Read More
2016-12-06 15:02
Washington's top diplomat warns Israeli settlement building undermining hope of two states living side-by-side
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday accused right-wing Israelis of del… Read More
2016-12-06 04:26
Kushner Foundation Donated to West Bank Settlement ProjectsDonations include small sum to a radical yeshiva in Yitzhar that has served as a base for violent attacks against Palestinian villa… Read More
2016-12-06 04:03
The Christmas season is here in Bethlehem and the “Holy Land”. Already the Christmas tree in Bethlehem Nativity square is lit. It isbeautiful to see people of all faiths her… Read More
2016-12-06 03:51
It is sometimes hard to know how many people receiving these messagesread them. It would be great to get more feedback on what is useful and what is not. As a simple experiment and sinc… Read More
2016-10-19 16:52
The Home Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons, the lower house of the British parliament, has just issued its report, “Anti-Semitism in the UK”, in response to concer… Read More
2016-10-19 16:49
Israel has been interrogating and imprisoning dozens of Palestinian minors for months without any legal representation or a parent's presence.
As Facebook gives the Israeli government more a… Read More
2016-10-19 16:40
Israel is likely to increase its arms exports now that it cannot use the aid on its own weapons industry, says Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.
Please help us grow, any contribution big or sma… Read More
2016-10-19 15:36
Ryan Dawson of the ANC Report returns to discuss Zionism and the power of the Jewish lobby. We talk about the historical influence Zionists and the Israel Lobby have had on American life and… Read More
2016-10-19 13:54
It was presumably intended as an Israeli history lesson to the world. A video posted to social media by Israel’s foreign ministry shows an everyday Jewish couple, Jacob and R… Read More
2016-09-12 18:46
Palestinians have truth and justice on their side. Their story must be told with greater energy, amplification and persuasion.
By Stuart Littlewood
A leadership change in Hamas offers… Read More
2016-09-12 18:36
They usually target anyone who they deem to be antithetical or non-supportive of Israeli domestic and foreign policy.
It is well known that the Israeli Mossad using their Sayanim network in… Read More
2016-09-12 18:03
Behind the smokescreen of the broader Mideast chaos, Israel pursues a strategy of gobbling up Palestinian lands to establish de facto control of the West Bank while confining indigenous Arab… Read More
2015-12-21 00:14
Throughout 2015 we shared with you general news and action items weekly. As 2015 comes to a close, we wanted to share with you our successes in 2015 and our new year resolutions for 2016 as… Read More
2015-12-21 00:14
Throughout 2015 we shared with you general news and action items weekly. As 2015 comes to a close, we wanted to share with you our successes in 2015 and our new year resolutions for 2016 as… Read More
2015-12-21 00:13
The body of 22-year-old Mohammad Shamasneh from
Jerusalem, was returned to his family with missing
eye cornea's. He was tortured to death by a mob of
terrorist Israeli settlers in mi… Read More
2015-12-21 00:11
TULKAREM (Ma’an) -- At least 9 Palestinian students were shot and injured on Sunday when clashes broke out with Israeli forces outside a university in the occupied West Bank city of Tu… Read More
2015-12-21 00:10
The deanship at the Central University of Barcelona (UAB) announced the official boycott of Israel, with the cut of all kinds of communication and relations with the Israeli universities and… Read More
2015-12-21 00:04
2016 special appeal for funds - Please help us grow, any contribution big or small goes along way and is greatly appreciated!
By Ludwig Watzal
It's all over town: The British and American in… Read More
2015-12-20 23:58
2016 Appeal -Please help us grow, any contribution big or small goes along way and is greatly appreciated!
Banksy’s classic Christmas card shows a picture of Joseph and … Read More
2015-11-30 07:53
It was the summer of 1996 and we started this blog, we always thought of getting a domain name but never got around to it because we always felt that we would loose the ranking we had on the… Read More
2015-11-30 07:27
"Where many are grasping at straws for new strategies to compensate for so many past diplomatic failures, the only real strategy left is the realization of the state of Palestine on the grou… Read More
2015-11-19 02:48
The popular Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel was declared illegal in France, making it a crime to call for a boycott of Israeli goods. But B-D-S campaigners have tak… Read More
2015-11-19 02:43
Dear FriendsThe 2016 “Colors from Palestine” calendar is a fundraiser for the “Free All political prisoners” campaign and it feature 12 Palestinian political posters… Read More
2015-11-14 22:44
"Woe to those who builds a city by bloodshed, and establish a town by wickedness!...Hear, O tribe and city council, You whose rich men are full of violence, whose inhabitants speak falsehood… Read More
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