Conservative blogger behind signs By Karen Matthews / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A provocative ad that equates some Muslim radicals with savages is set to go up next week in the New York City subway system, just as… Read More ›
Zionism
Foreigners flood into Syria to join battle to overthrow Assad
by Richard Hall Rebels in Syria are becoming increasingly radicalised as more and more foreign fighters join the battle to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, United Nations human rights investigators have warned. The UN team, expressing concern at the “increasing… Read More ›
Mitt Romney: ‘Palestinians Have No Interest Whatsoever In Establishing Peace’
by Sam Stein Mitt Romney argued that the Palestinian people ultimately don’t want a peaceful settlement with Israelis and that pursuit of such a peace process would ultimately be feckless during a private fundraiser last May. The video of his… Read More ›
The Massacre at Sabra and Shatila, Thirty Years Later
A Never-Ending Horror Story by SONJA KARKAR It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982. A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it. The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated corpses,… Read More ›
US Shares Responsibility for Rachel Corrie’s Death
On Aug. 28, an Israeli court rejected a civil lawsuit against Israeli occupation forces for the 2003 murder of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist killed in the Gaza Strip, upholding a severely flawed internal Israeli military investigation. Amnesty… Read More ›
Israeli Court Whitewashes Military Role in Murder of American Activist
No Justice for Martyred Internationalist On 28 August 2012, an Israeli court in Haifa rejected charges that the Israeli Defense Forces or Israel’s Ministry of Defense were in any way responsible for the killing of American internationalist and solidarity activist… Read More ›
Israel’s lynch mob violence
An assault on a Palestinian teenager has shone a spotlight on a cauldron of prejudice that runs through the Israeli establishment, explains Hadas Thier. DOZENS OF Jewish teens in Jerusalem’s Zion Square beat a Palestinian youth, 17-year-old Jamal Julani, nearly… Read More ›
In wake of lynch, Arabs fear the streets
Arab Israelis say they try to avoid walking around at night for fear they would be attacked by racists Hassan Shaalan A brutal assault allegedly perpetrated by dozens of Jewish teens last week has reawakened long-harbored feelings of fear among… Read More ›
Western Sanctions Causing Medicine Shortages in Iran
Drug Factories to Shutter as International Trade Grinds to a Halt by Jason Ditz US and international sanctions against Iran don’t include sanctions on food or medication, which are both explicitly exempted. At least that’s the theory. In practice, the… Read More ›
Lynch suspect: Victim cursed my mother, for all I care, let him die. He’s an Arab.
Appearing before court, 15-year-old suspected of assaulting Arab youth in Jerusalem lashes out at victim, says ‘If I catch him, I’ll beat him. He should die’ Noam (Dabul) Dvir One of the suspects in the Jerusalem lynch case appeared at… Read More ›
The Forgotten Palestinians
Inequality Inside the Green Line by PATRICK O. STRICKLAND Tel Aviv. On May 15, the New York Times ran an editorial authored by Aaron David Miller under the title of “Preserving Israel’s Uncertain Status Quo.” Miller argues that the Israeli… Read More ›
Israel falsifies documents to deport Sudanese migrants
Israel has deported Sudanese asylum seekers by issuing documents with purposefully incorrect nationalities, a recently published report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism revealed. More than 100 Sudanese nationals in Israel were given passports or birth certificates incorrectly labeling… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 