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Amandla! (A!): You have said that the Palestinian bid for UN membership has brought together the divided Palestinian factions of Hamas and Fatah. What is the state of their relations following the unity agreement?Raji Sourani (RS): I think the Israeli government...
Ran Greenstein responds to the recently published pieces by Richard Goldstone and Benjamin Pogrund which reject the analogy of Israel and apartheid. It is not common for the Hasbara machine, disseminating Israeli state propaganda, to be exposed in such a way. As if by...
Next week, the third session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will convene in Cape Town’s famous District Six. In the 1970s, 60,000 residents of District Six were forcibly removed following its designation as a White Area by the apartheid regime. Based on...
WAR torn Somalia faces yet another grave threat as the worst drought in decades devastates vast expanses of land in the Horn of Africa region. The other countries affected to a lesser extent are Ethiopia and Kenya. By early August, according to reports by...
Today, September 23, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas submits, to the UN the application for Palestinian statehood for the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967. What are the implications of this effort? Does it serve the Palestinian...
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) has been one of the leading critical Israeli peace and human rights organizations struggling for Palestinian rights during its more than 14 years of existence. ICAHD activists resist the demolition of Palestinian...
The Palestinian bid for ‘statehood’ has become one of the key items on the agenda of the general debate of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s sixty-sixth session – to begin on 21 September 2011. The request being tabled by the Palestinian Liberation...