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- Thursday, Mar 11, 2010
Commentary Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today. -
- Monday, Mar 08, 2010
ZNet Article Israel set to join club of richest nations -
- Friday, Feb 26, 2010
ZNet Article A recent assignment of mine covering Israel’s presumed links to the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh provoked some more thoughts about the New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner. He is the Jerusalem bureau chief who has been at the ... -
- Wednesday, Feb 24, 2010
ZNet Article The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say. -
- Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
ZNet Article Over the past few days graffiti scrawled on walls around the mixed Jewish and Arab town of Jaffa in central Israel exclaims: “Settlers, keep out” and “Jaffa is not Hebron”. -
- Friday, Feb 12, 2010
ZNet Article The Israeli courts ordered the release this week of two foreign women arrested by the army in the West Bank in what human-rights lawyers warn has become a wide-ranging clampdown by Israel on non-violent protest from international, Israeli and Pale... -
- Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010
ZNet Article Jerusalem’s mayor threatened last week to demolish 200 homes in Palestinian neighborhoods of the city in an act even he conceded would probably bring long-simmering tensions over housing in East Jerusalem to a boil. -
- Sunday, Feb 07, 2010
ZNet Article Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than $2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists have revealed. -
- Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010
ZNet Article Leaders of the Arab minority in Israel warned this week that they were facing an unprecedented campaign of persecution, backed by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu, designed to stop their political activities. -
- Thursday, Jan 28, 2010
ZNet Article The Israeli government is reported to have quietly approved the fast-track immigration of 7,000 members of a supposedly “lost Jewish†tribe, known as the Bnei Menashe, currently living in a remote area of India. -
- Monday, Jan 25, 2010
ZNet Article Ehud Barak, Israel’s defence minister, approved last week the upgrading to university status of a college in a settlement located deep inside the West Bank, a move certain to further undermine Palestinian confidence in the peace process. -
- Thursday, Jan 14, 2010
ZNet Article Israel unveiled "Iron Dome" last week, a missile-defence system that is designed to strike a knock-out blow against short-range rockets of the variety fired into Israel by Hamas and Hizbullah. In the short term, Iron Dome is supposed to herald the... -
- Friday, Dec 11, 2009
ZNet Article The fatal shooting by Israeli soldiers of an Israeli man earlier this week as he tried to scale a fence into the Gaza Strip was reportedly part of a drastic procedure the army was supposed to have phased out several years ago. -
- Monday, Nov 30, 2009
ZNet Article Discrimination, not culture, keeps families in poverty... -
- Thursday, Nov 26, 2009
ZNet Article South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particu... -
- Saturday, Nov 21, 2009
ZNet Article In this Guest Media Alert, Cook attempts the truly Herculean task of dissecting and comparing the key arguments in Nick Davies’s book ‘Flat Earth News’ and our own recently published ‘Newspeak in the 21st Century.’ The results are enthra... -
- Friday, Nov 20, 2009
ZNet Article A plan by right-wing legislators in Israel to commemorate the anniversary this month of the death of Meir Kahane, whose banned anti-Arab movement is classified as a terrorist organisation, risks further damaging the prospects for talks between Isr... -
- Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
ZNet Article An Israeli judge made an historic ruling last week when he decided that an Arab teenager needed “protection†from the justice system and ordered that he not be convicted despite being found guilty of throwing stones at a police car during a pr... -
- Monday, Nov 16, 2009
ZNet Article Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the “witch-hunt†tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. -
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
ZNet Article Civil rights groups in Israel have expressed outrage at the announcement last week that a special undercover unit of the police has been infiltrating and collecting intelligence on Israel's Arab minority by disguising its officers as Arabs. -
- Thursday, Oct 08, 2009
Commentary Tension over control of the Haram al Sharif compound of mosques in Jerusalem's Old City has reached a pitch unseen since clashes at the site sparked the second intifada nine years ago. ZNet Article The Israeli government announced yesterday it would consider banning Israel’s Islamic Movement at the next cabinet meeting, in a significant escalation of tensions that have fuelled a fortnight of bloody clashes in Jerusalem over access to the H... -
- Tuesday, Oct 06, 2009
ZNet Article Israel celebrated at the weekend its success at the United Nations in forcing the Palestinians to defer demands that the International Criminal Court investigate allegations of war crimes committed by Israel during its winter assault on the Gaza S... -
- Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009
Commentary Nine months after he helped to organize protests against Israel's attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door. -
- Saturday, Sep 19, 2009
ZNet Article Rail firm pays price for link to settlements... -
- Tuesday, Sep 15, 2009
ZNet Article Israeli peace activists are planning to ratchet up their campaign against groups in the United States that raise money for settlers by highlighting how tax exemptions are helping to fund the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank. -
- Thursday, Sep 10, 2009
ZNet Article Yunis al Masri was luckier than his two brothers from Gaza. Although the truck that ploughed into their car as they travelled to work in Israel 24 years ago killed Jaber and Kamal instantly, Mr al Masri survived with shattered bones, internal blee... -
- Wednesday, Sep 09, 2009
ZNet Article The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country's 1.3 million Arab citizens to call the first general strike in several years. -
- Monday, Sep 07, 2009
ZNet Article The hyperventilating by Israel's leaders over a story published in a Swedish newspaper last month [2] suggesting that the Israeli army assisted in organ theft from Palestinians has distracted attention from the disturbing allegations made by Pales... -
- Thursday, Aug 27, 2009
ZNet Article The inhabitants of the Bedouin village of Amra have good reason to fear that the harsh tactics used by the Israeli army against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been imported to their small corner of Israel’s Negev desert. - All Most Recent Content
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