Last month, imprisoned Palestinian parliamentarian Marwan Barghouti was provided op-ed space by the New York Times to explain why he and his fellow inmates were going on a hunger strike. Instructively, the article caused an uproar in the United (...)
With Israel and Turkey having announced a reconciliation agreement last week, Turkey is portraying itself as a protector of the oppressed by arguing that it will allow greater aid to the people of Gaza. The truth, however, is that, far from helping (...)
When Binyamin Netanyahu declared that he would work to prevent a Palestinian state from being established if re-elected as Israeli prime minister, the mainstream media described it as a “reversal” from a policy speech he gave in 2009, in which he (...)
The United Nations was founded with the stated aim of maintaining peace among nations, but the reality is that not only has it consistently failed to prevent international conflicts, but it has also played no small part in causing them. One (...)
The United Nations was founded with the stated aim of maintaining peace among nations, but the reality is that not only has it consistently failed to prevent international conflicts, but it has also played no small part in causing them. One (...)
The Palestinians should take their case for statehood to the UN this September and not be cowed by US rejectionism, writes Jeremy R. Hammond*
The US has long opposed any "unilateral" action on the part of the Palestinians to seek fulfillment of (...)