This is an update to Kawther Salam’s story about the Palestinian Orphanage in Hebron.

At 1.00 in the morning on the 30th of April, the Israeli Army raids orphanage in Hebron, home to 110 girls, seizing all equipment from community sewing workshop.

The Hebron Orphanage for girls is run by the Charitable Islamic Society,(I.C.S) and houses 110 [...]

Blair, Gorbachev, Streisand to attend Israel’s 60th

President Shimon Peres is bringing in top personalities from around the world to celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday.

United States President George W. Bush, Barbra Streisand, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and Rupert Murdoch …

But guess who is joining the celebration too:

The list of confirmed guests also includes Henry Kissinger, Nobel laureate [...]

It is a common trend amongst rabid Zionists and notorious Islamophobes to quote some isolated and mistranslated verses from the Qur’an for the purpose of collectively libeling Muslims and presenting Islam as a regressive and violent belief system.

Needless to say, so far, such repetitive attempts have been found futile if not actually counter-effective. Not a [...]

Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

Joel Kovel is both a scholar and an activist. In the former capacity he has published nine books and over a hundred articles and reviews. His books include White Racism, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972; A Complete Guide to Therapy; The Age of Desire [...]

The selfless teacher of Moral-Activism

Re-Remembering Rachel Corrie (1979 - 2003) as the selfless teacher of Moral-Activism.

On this 5th anniversary of Rachel’s supreme self-sacrifice to stand up to tyranny on behalf of the beleaguered Palestinian people, it is à propos remembering this forgottened American victim of Jews-on-Jews violence with these pitiless 1943 words of Yitzhak Shamir [...]

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to select Israel as guest of honor at the International Book Fair (salon Due Livre) in Paris underscores his government’s obscene embrace of Israel’s manifestly criminal policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, including apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Indeed, hosting Shimon Peres only one week after the Israeli Wehrmacht murdered in [...]

(A talk given on the First of March 2008 at Invitation to Learn’s weekend retreat) At the left, “Innocent” by Ben Heine

“They (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves” (Matan Vilnai, Israeli Deputy Defence Minister, 29 February 2008)

It is clear beyond any doubt [...]

A must read (Via: peacepalestine, hat tip: Nadia Hasan)

A Global Massacre Against Gaza
By Adel Samara

Note: I certainly need help in answering the following two questions:

- What is going on in the mind of a Palestinian infant in the last moments of his or her life when a US/Israeli rocket strikes him/her?

- What do Israeli military [...]

At least 32 45 children and freedom fighters massacred today, Saturday, March 1st, 2008, and counting.

The late few hours witnessed a very dangerous stage in the Israeli war of Holocaust against Palestinians.

More than 65 78 martyr (at least 1/3 of them are babies and children) and more 200 injuries since last Wednesday.

Here is what they [...]

14 Years of Lessons after Al-Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre - A Memorial History for the 30 Palestinian Martyrs

The story:

The dawn of Friday 15 Ramadan 1414 a.h. / 25 February 1994 marked the first of three massacres perpetrated by Israeli settlers accompanied by the Israeli Army. There were more than 30 martyrs and 270 injured. The main [...]