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August 31, 2014
Israel detains Palestinian for Facebook posts
Maan News Agency

Palestinian activist Suhaib Zahida was ordered detained by an Israeli court for starting an "Intifada of Hebron" Facebook page and advocating a boycott of Israeli products.

An Israeli court on Aug. 29 extended the detention of a Palestinian activist who was detained for political activities on Facebook for a week, a Ma'an News Agency reporter said. An Israeli court in Petah Tikva extended the detention of Suhaib Zahida, 31, until Sept. 4, after he was arrested on Aug.

July 12, 2014
Clashes across West Bank amid Gaza bombardment
Maan News Agency

Fierce clashes broke out across the West Bank between Israeli troops and young Palestinian men protesting the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip.

Fierce clashes broke out across the West Bank late Friday July 11 between Israeli troops and young Palestinian men protesting the ongoing military offensive against the Gaza Strip. In Ramallah in the central West Bank, Palestinian protestors on Saturday morning used rocks to block the road to an Israeli military base near the town of Sinjel in the north.

January 27, 2014
'Anti-Semite' de Blasio schmoozes AIPAC
Bill Weinberg

Mayor de Blasio's closed-doors meeting with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) plays into the worst stereotypes about Jews. No thanks, Bill.

Pretty hysterical irony. Gawker reported Jan.

June 14, 2013
Arab Negev residents rally against displacement
Maan News Agency

Thousands of Israeli Arabs demonstrated in Beersheba against the Prawer Plan which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert.

Thousands of Palestinian holders of Israeli citizenship on June 13 demonstrated in Beersheba in southern Israel in protest against the Prawer Plan which will displace thousands of Bedouin families in the Negev desert. A Ma'an News Agency reporter said the demonstrators waved

May 30, 2013
Alice Walker: off her rocker
Bill Weinberg

Until Alice Walker repudiates David Icke's fascistic conspiranoia, she isn't doing the Palestinians any favors by speaking on their behalf.

Man, it just gets worse every damn day.

October 10, 2011
Iraq's last Jews forced to flee in WikiLeaks blowback?
New Jewish Resistance

McClatchy Newspapers' Pulitzer-winning reporter Roy Gutman writes from Baghdad that an Anglican priest is working with the US embassy to convince the remaining nine Jews in Iraq to flee the country, because their names have appeared in cables published last month by WikiLeaks.

McClatchy Newspapers' Pulitzer-winning reporter Roy Gutman writes from Baghdad Oct.

February 27, 2011
Islamophobes exploit Lara Logan to discredit Egyptian revolution
Bill Weinberg

On David Horowitz's Front Page Mag, Phyllis Chesler exploits Lara Logan's sexual abuse in Tahrir Square to portray the Egyptian revolution as a hatefest of Islamic extremism.

As we've pointed out, the right is divided on the Egyptian and Arab revolutions—between neocons who have deluded themselves into thinking the Egyptians are following their "regime change" playbook, and more hardcore Islamophobes who can see only a fundamentalist threat in

February 18, 2011
ZOG theory goes mainstream
Bill Weinberg

A few years ago it was only voices such as Scott Ritter and the ever-dependable Counterpunch that employed right-wing nationalist rhetoric about how the United States has surrendered its sovereignty to Israel, complete with sentimental