I was nine years old (1948) when there was HUGE celebration in the Bronx at founding of the state of Israel. No one told me that Arabs had lived on that land for centuries and were displaced by force, tens of thousands of them crammed into postage-stamp-size Gaza, now host to two million Palestinians. The Religious ‘Justification’: Zionist Jews, like the …

If there’s blood on anyone’s hands it’s on those who say “Israel has a right to defend itself” 

srael is on the rampage again and Gaza’s population is facing a quiet, slow path to erasure. The ones funding and enabling it are the US and its European allies By Jonathan Cook Palestinian medics treat children wounded by the Israeli bombing on Gaza at Shifa Hospital, on 9 October 2023 (Reuters) The bloodiest hand in the current slaughter of …

Palestinians leave al-Karama neighbourhood in Gaza City on 11 October 2023 (AFP) In response to Hamas’s surprise attack over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s response would “change the Middle East”. There are growing fears among Palestinians in Gaza that change could come in the form of a repeat of the Nakba, the mass Palestinian displacement of 1948, …

A Palestinian youth mourns the death of a relative in an Israeli air strike outside the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on 12 October 2023 (AFP) When Russia attacked Ukraine’s water, electricity and energy infrastructure, the EU called it ‘pure terror’ The European Union is facing increased criticism over its double standards on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and past …

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House on 5 October 2023 in Washington (AFP) US politicians ‘lost sight of their humanity’ and will have to grapple with it for rest of their lives, says congressional aideThe White House is rebuking progressives in Congress for calling for a ceasefire and showing sympathy …