American and European leaders must disentangle themselves from Israel’s outsized influence – or risk an even bigger catastrophe in the days ahead   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pictured in New York on 20 September 2023 (AFP) Israeli occupation is not limited to Palestine. The response from western elites to Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza shows how Tel Aviv is also occupying the …

At least five Palestinian prisoners reported dead from abuse in Israeli jails, according to testimony of freed teens   Osama Marmash, 16, speaking to Al Jazeera after he was released from Megiddo prison on Sunday 26 November 2023 (Screengrab) By Mosab Shawer in Hebron, occupied Palestine Published date: 27 November 2023 13:49 GMT | Last update: 1 day 15 hours ago Palestinian children freed from Israeli jails …

The bombing of the library has been decried as a deliberate attempt to destroy thousands of books and historical documents   Gaza’s public library has been destroyed in the Israeli bombing campaign(Screenshot/X) By Nadda Osman Palestinians inspecting the destruction wreaked by the Israeli military have been dismayed to find Gaza’s main public library in ruins following at least seven weeks of bombing. …

Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first “Nakba,” Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative, writes Jonathan Cook.   Gazans outside Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, on October 9, 2023, following Israeli airstrikes. (Palestinian News & Information Agency. or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, …

A Hamas rally in Ramallah in 2007. (Hoheit/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany)   By As’ad AbuKhalilSpecial to Consortium News  Hamas has been an important factor in Arab politics since its founding in 1987. It stirred controversy from the very beginning: many objected to its references to the repugnant Protocols of the Elders of Zion (the notorious antisemtic forgery) in the founding …