Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigNov 17, 2015
Amira Hass writes in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz of incidents in which Israeli soldiers have reportedly killed unarmed Palestinians and possibly placed knives near them "after the fact." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigNov 11, 2015
The European Union will probably issue a ruling Wednesday that goods produced in the occupied Palestinian West Bank by Israeli squatters must be so labeled. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 14, 2015
"The notion that there will ever be quiet and stability in the context of Israel’s ongoing domination of the Palestinians with no diplomatic horizon is a delusion," writes Mairav Zonszein for The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigAug 31, 2015
If there were a Palestinian Donald Trump, he’d be fulminating against illegal immigrants swamping the Palestinian West Bank -- 1 in 6 of whom are American. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigAug 26, 2015
Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., has asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether the deaths of two Palestinian youths at the hands of Israeli security forces at a protest last spring violate the Leahy Law. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 27, 2015
Increasingly, younger Jews are opposing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “open racism and obstinate refusal to help create a Palestinian state,” Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine writes. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigOct 2, 2014
Palestine will argue that Israel has systematically and over decades violated all the international laws regulating military occupations, and that it is quickly marching toward being an apartheid state. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigSep 16, 2014
During the recent war in the Gaza Strip, a controversy broke out in Turkey about whether Turkish Jews were required to condemn Israel’s actions, as some pro-Palestinian Turks suggested. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 11, 2014
For a variety of reasons, the recent war in the Palestinian territory has persuaded an increasing number of Israelis to give serious thought to emigration, according to one poll; in Gambia, the National Assembly passed a law to imprison people for life for "homosexual acts"; meanwhile, it's important that the left condemn jihad as vehemently as it does Israeli occupation. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigAug 6, 2014
It is legitimate for Israel to seek the disarming of Hamas, but it isn’t legitimate or legal in international law for it to hold noncombatants’ lives and welfare hostage in order to accomplish that goal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Scott Tucker / TruthdigJul 14, 2014
Narrowing the argument over Palestine to an inner circle of Israeli Jews would give us a better chance of choosing our favorite champions of justice without risking the charge of anti-Semitism. But we must break out into risk and freedom. If we are digging for truth, Haneen Zoabi deserves a wider hearing. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJul 5, 2014
Haaretz's Gideon Levy wants us to wake up and smell the Zionist coffee: Israel has never cared about a "just peace," only about "collective anxieties" that "now take precedence over all else," he writes. In other words, Levy claims, "The Israelis want occupation, not peace." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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