Responding to the strong reactions, the GNU’s prime minister suspended his foreign minister and opened an inquiry into the affair on Sunday, which will be concluded this week.
To stand up to Israel has a political cost few, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are willing to pay. But if you do stand up, it singles you out as someone who puts principles before expediency.
The divide in Israel today is between the right and the far right — those who want to repress the Palestinians and those who want to repress the Palestinians even more. For that reason, Arabs regard the protests as irrelevant…
To live up to Israel’s expectations and to ensure its survival, the Palestinian Authority is willing to clash directly with Palestinians who refuse to toe the line, writes Ramzy Baroud.
The American Anthropological Association has become the largest U.S. scholastic group to pass a resolution to boycott Israeli educational institutions, Peoples Dispatch reports. The measure does not extend to individual academics.
The emergence of a disciplined resistance movement in Lebanon not only brought military defeat to Israel and the rise of Hezbollah, it heralded a new era of Arab assertiveness.
In late June, after visiting Palestine and Israel on behalf of a group formed by Nelson Mandela, two former senior U.N. officials — Ban Ki-moon and Mary Robinson — published a scathing report on their findings, writes Vijay Prashad.
The refugee camp terrifies Israel because it is a representation of a much greater fight undertaken by Palestinians in besieged Gaza and throughout the Occupied West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud.