Film shows six women who inflicted and witnessed torture

One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy.

The six Israeli women who feature in the documentary “To See If I’m Smiling” each [...]

First, let’s start with this powerful Hip-Hop song - Eyes of A Souljah:

ACTION DAY!

What We Can Do to END GAZA SIEGE?

The Least you can do is to Distribute and Let Every One Know…

Forward to your friends, groups, organizations, governments and business to get involved in speaking out and supporting the Stop The Siege in Gaza.

Email [...]

NYC Rights Activists Escalate Protests Against Leviev Over Palestine Land-Grab (first protest here!).

The Madison Ave jewelry store LEVIEV NY was again the site of protests by human rights activists.

In a loud, festive protest this evening, 40 New Yorkers chanted, danced Palestinian Dabka and performed street theater. Protesters were faced by a cordon of police officer [...]

A while ago, I was doing my -almost- daily check to see requests of new bloggers to be added to Palestine Blogs. One of the requests was from an Israeli student, Shahaf Ifhar, who just returned to Israel after 3-year programme in London called Olive Tree, which beings Palestinian and Israeli students together to live [...]

Video Transcript:
Cameraman: What are you doing here?
Girl: Going back home from school!
Cameraman: Where are you going now?
Girl: Home!
Cameraman: Where is your home?
Girl: Behind the Wall!

Boy: My home is behind this wall. We study at Bet Nabal!
Cameraman: What happened here today?
Boy: They closed the passage, we are not able to go through

Cameraman: Where do you live?
Boy: [...]

A 21-year old cancer patient in Gaza who had been seeking vital medical treatment in Israel, has died.

Na’el al Kurdi is one of dozens of people being prevented by Israel from using the Beit Hanoun crossing for apparent security reasons.

Worse still, other patients may now be at risk, as medicines in Gaza run out and [...]

Thirteen Austrian bishops were barred from praying at Jerusalem’s Western Wall last week by Jewish religious authorities when they refused to take off their crosses, according to Austrian officials.

On a planned visit on Thursday to the wall - the holiest place where Jews can pray - the bishops were given an ultimatum by the rabbi [...]

Below is an Op-Ed by Los Angeles Eight defendant Michel Shehadeh which appeared in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle, in case you are interested in running it on your website or sending it to your email list. Shehadeh has given his permission for it to be run in full. [Hat tip: Scott]

Charges dropped against last of [...]

[Via: Culture Magazine]

Written by David Mandelzys

Zionism, as a political and ideological movement, has become inseparable from Judaism in the minds of many. In mainstream Canadian media and popular debate, being Jewish and being Zionist has become confounded, as all Jews are portrayed as ardent supporters of the Israeli state and believers in Zionism. The confusion [...]

…even if it causes US a DOMESTIC SHORTAGE???

Under a 1975 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) the USA guaranteed all Israel’s oil needs in the event of a crisis. This Memorandum of Understanding is quietly renewed every five years. It commits U.S. taxpayers to maintain a strategic U.S. reserve for Israel, equivalent to $3 billion in 2002 [...]