VIDEO: UN human rights council backs Gaza war crimes report

UN human rights council backs Gaza war crimes report
A vote to endorse a highly critical report (pdf) on the Gaza war passed at the UN human rights council in Geneva today, despite opposition from the US and Israel.
The council approved a resolution endorsing the report, which was written by the South [...]

VIDEO: Tensions erupt among Jerusalem Jews + Changing the face of East Jerusalem

VIDEO: Israeli apartheid banality continues…

East Jerusalem is heating up. Israeli forces removed to families in Sheikh Jarrah this morning. Jewish settlers moved in shortly after. International, Israeli, and Palestinian protesters have been demonstrating throughout the day. I will be posting a proper video from the scene tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime, please see this report [...]

Medvedev supports Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem

The Middle East peace process should result in establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, President Dmitry Medvedev has told the League of Arab States in Cairo.
On Tuesday, the Russian leader made Egypt his first stop on a tour of Africa aimed at reestablishing close ties with the continent.
Along with [...]

VIDEO: American jews articulating their racisim and whiteness in Jerusalem on Eve of Obama’s Cairo Address + to the israeli onslaughter in Gaza

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OBAMA SPEECH: Convenient Crutch: Forget ‘Negotiations’, Mr. Obama

Whenever western leaders lecture us about a solution to the Israel-Palestine problem, they rely on those comfortable, woolly words “negotiation” and “peace process”… it’s a convenient crutch.
Kick away the crutch and they’d finally have to grasp the nettle of justice, something they have always avoided.
Justice is underpinned by law, but the operation of law in [...]

Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival

Armed Israeli police last night tried to halt the opening night of a prominent

Palestinian literary festival in Jerusalem when they ordered a Palestinian theatre to close.
The week-long festival, supported by the British council and Unesco, has brought several high-profile international authors – among them Henning Mankell, Michael Palin and Ahdaf Soueif – on a [...]

France: Jerusalem should be capital of two states

France accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday of prejudicing the outcome of the Middle East peace process by declaring that Jerusalem would forever be Israel’s undivided capital.
“Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, a city reunified so as never again to be divided,” Netanyahu said on Thursday at a ceremony to [...]

Israeli colonialization: Israel to rethink rail route that cuts through Palestinian land

The Civil Administration’s planning bureau will hold a hearing on Monday on a Peace Now demand that the planned route of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train be altered so as not to cut into privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank.
At present, the plan involves turning Palestinian farmland into access roads for a tunnel and [...]

Living Next to Settlers – “They Have Done Nothing for Palestinians in 20 Years”

Last week the Hebron team (Simphiwe, Elaine and I) made it a priority to visit the Da’ana family in Wadi al-Hussein. We soon discovered what it was like for an isolated Palestinian family to be located beside a settlement. The Da’ana family (17) live on an isolated farm land with no Palestinian neighbors. Their land [...]