The Ethnic Cleansing of Masafer Yatta: Israel’s New Annexation Strategy in Palestine

Instead of annexing 40% of the West Bank all at once, Israel is now annexing smaller tracts of land and regions, like Masafer Yatta, separately.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Masafer Yatta

The Israeli Supreme Court has decided that the Palestinian region of Masafer Yatta, located in the southern hills of Hebron, is to be entirely appropriated by the Israeli military and that a population of over 1,000 Palestinians is to be expelled. The Israeli Court decision, on May 4, was hardly shocking. Israel’s military occupation does not

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Unity at Last: The Palestinian People Have Risen

Netanyahu may have hoped to use Sheikh Jarrah as a way of mobilizing his right-wing constituency, but his rash behavior has instead ignited a popular rebellion among Palestinians, exposing Israel for the violent, racist, and apartheid state that it is and always has been. 

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian uprising Feature photo

From the outset, some clarification regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. This is not a ‘conflict’. Neither is it a ‘dispute’ nor ‘sectarian violence’ nor even a war in the traditional sense. It is not a conflict, because Israel is an occupying power and the Palestinian

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New Report Reveals Israel Demolishes Over 2,000 Palestinian Bedouin Homes per Year

Today Israel only allows indigenous Palestinian Bedouins to live on 12% of their ancestral homeland in the Naqab, transferring them to camps and crowded villages reminiscent of Native American reservations.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
Negev Bedouin Feature photo

A report published in June of 2020 states that in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the state of Israel demolished over two thousand homes of Palestinian citizens of Israel per year in the Naqab region alone. The report was put together by an Israeli Non-Governmental agency called, “The Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality.”   History The Naqab,

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The Palestinian Christian Population Is Dwindling at an Alarming Rate

The number of Christian inhabitants of Palestine has dropped by nearly ten-fold in the last 70 years

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian Christians Feature photo

The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere, and the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine and South Africa sounded the alarm at a conference in Johannesburg on October 15. Their gathering was titled: “The Holy Land: A Palestinian Christian Perspective.” One major issue that highlighted itself at the

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What Strikes Bernie Sanders as “Extremely Unfair” Is a Catastrophe for Millions of Palestinians

There will be hope when politicians like Bernie Sanders will have the courage to call the ethnic cleansing, genocide and apartheid — all crimes that Israel perpetrated and continues to perpetuate to this day — by their real name and not describe them as merely “extremely unfair.”  

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
Gaza Palestinians Israel

JERUSALEM — "Palestinians are being treated extremely unfairly." This quote by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came to mind as I was watching the documentary film 1948: Creation and Catastrophe. The terms “fair” and “unfair,” and even “extremely unfair,” come to mind when children quarrel on the playground, or maybe in a family feud when parents are

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Arguing with Zionists in Public: The Necessity of a Debate that Offends and Appalls

The old bag of tricks that was brought to the debate by agents of the Zionist propaganda machine, when set against the arguments for justice, freedom and equality will fail every time. Repeating this failure may well be how we delegitimize Israel and the ideology behind it, Zionism.

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
Israel Palestine Debate

LONDON --  “I came here hoping to see if the other side had any new arguments, any fresh things to say, but what I found out [is] that this gentleman has trotted out every single cliche the Zionists have in their bag and it is very depressing that this is all you have got.” This short statement was made by Dr. Ghada Karmi, a Palestinian

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