Two weeks until the Women’s Boat to Gaza sets sail
The Women’s Boat to Gaza (WBG) is due to set sail on September 14, 2016 to reach the shores of Gaza by early October. It will be sailed entirely by an all-women crew and will…
Category Archives: Voices
Palestine’s latest evictions are a human rights crisis – world leaders must act
The villagers of Susiya and the Bedouin are some of the West Bank’s most vulnerable communities. Their fate is in the hands of the UN security council
In Israel, a Dead Arab Evokes Just One Big Yawn
No one bats an eye over Friday's killing of an innocent man by an Israeli soldier. It's not terror, or apartheid, or racism or dehumanization. It's only killing a subhuman.
Palestinians have no role to play in Israel’s film academy
Out of the 982 members of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television, there is not a single Palestinian.
Amid mass hunger strike, UN deplores number of Palestinian detainees, now at an eight-year high
UN calls on Israel to release administrative detainees amid mass hunger strike BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 21 Aug — The UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance and Development Aid in the occupied Palestinian territory Robert Piper said he…
Study: At least 78% of humanitarian aid intended for Palestinians ends up in Israeli coffers
Diplomats may have a reputation for greyness, obfuscation, even hypocrisy, but few have found themselves compared to a serial killer, let alone one who devours human flesh. That honour befell Laars Faaborg-Andersen, the European Union’s…
Recognising Palestinian statehood
There is a low intensity ground war between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel wins the battles, with its infinitely superior force. But both sides will lose the war if the result is one state, Greater…
An Overwhelming One-man Theater Performance by Benjamin Netanyahu
During a four-hour closed door meeting with members of the Haaretz editorial staff, Netanyahu lectured, preached and demanded. At one point someone saw tears in his eyes.
A Palestinian view on the antisemitism row
Jonathan Freedland (My plea to the left, 30 April) asks us to imagine if a country far away was created for black people and asks if the left would treat it as it does Israel.…
Gaza NGO arrests are about the Israeli blockade, not aid or Hamas
The only reason why Palestinians in the strip are so dependent on international aid is because of Israel’s ongoing, illegal siege
The Feiglin Solution: An Interview with Moshe Feiglin
Despite the temptation, we are leaving politics outside the realm of this interview. But even the details of Feiglin’s state plan are not the main point. The main point is what is behind it: the…
“Susiya, it’s finished!”
Before us about 20 tents mostly made out of black or white tarpaulin sheets are nestled into the rugged landscape. The only sounds that can be heard are the faint sound of a television in one…
Analysis: Israel’s double standard on the use of human shields
Despite the fact that Israeli officials repeatedly alleged that Palestinian factions used human shields as a matter of policy in summer 2014, there is little to no evidence that the crime of human shields, as…
Displace, demolish, construct, repeat: The time-tested Israeli way
Palestinian displacement and Israeli construction is a decades-old pattern, but its recent escalation should give Israel diplomatic trouble
How much Palestinian land do Israeli settlements really eat up?
The Israeli government and its supporters routinely play down the significance of West Bank settlements as an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians. One recent example of this came from a Jewish Agency spokesperson, who…