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Protests by Palestinian citizens are being greeted with a mix of police violence and vigilante-style attacks from Jewish fascists With Jerusalem ablaze and Gaza on the brink of another major Israeli onslaught, it has been easy to overlook the...

Palestinian citizens of Israel say widespread protests reflect a shared movement against Israeli colonialism.

Israel continues its wide-scale arrest campaigns against Palestinian Arabs inside Israel AKKA, Saturday, May 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli police continued its wide-scale arrest campaigns against Palestinian Arabs inside Israel, detaining at least 67 people, according to local sources. Israeli police raided a large number of homes in the cities of Akka and Lod and other Arab towns inside Israel, wreaking havoc and detaining at least 52 people in Akka, and 15 others in Lod. At least 600 people ha...

Fascist demonstration in Haifa’s German Colony, May 11 2021 (Photo: Yoav Haifawi) Since Sunday, May 9, events in Haifa have been moving so fast that I couldn’t write fast enough to describe them. Every night there are mass detentions of Palestinians – activists and other residents that happened to pass in the police’s trail. Every morning dozens of relatives, friends, and comrades gather in front of the Haifa court, hoping to see their dear ones released, or at least to learn wha...

Open letter from the director of Gaza Community Mental Health Programme May 14, 2021 at 9:32 am | Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine Smoke and flame rise after Israeli fighter jets airstrike hit an area in Khan Yunis, Gaza on 13 May 2021. [Abed Rahim Khatib - Anadolu Agency] May 14, 2021 at 9:32 am I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year-old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying block the sounds of Israels bombardment, my two d...

This Isn’t a Civil War, It Is Settler-Colonial Violence Israeli security forces walk in Jerusalems al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site of Islam, on May 14, 2021. Ahmad Gharabli / AFP via Getty Images By Earlier this week, massive protests erupted in ’48 Palestinian towns and cities. ’48 Palestinians (known as “citizens” of Israel) had mobilized to protest the threat of expulsion facing Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem, and in protest of I...

Palestinians are showing enormous bravery during this moment of horror. Now we need the world to respond with corresponding acts of courage and support.

The Nakba Demands Justice THE GANGS of Israeli teenagers grip their oversized machine guns as they patrol the Damascus Gate, tossing their stun grenades and hearing the stones roar back in the original Arabic: “Jerusalem for the Palestinians.” What scenes those steps have borne witness to—a Nakba, a catastrophe. A shattering of history, a rending of Palestinian masses, now reunited and marching steadfastly along Route 1 toward Al-Aqsa Mosque on one of the last evenings of Ramadan to prote...

Palestinians carry the shrouded body of the toddler Ibrahim Alrantisi before his burial in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 14, 2021. Alrantisi was one of the more than Palestinians who have been killed in Israeli air strikes this week. (Photo: Abed Deeb/APA Images) I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying block the sounds of Israel’s bombardment, my two daughters, aged 13 and 10 and my wife. These faces s...

Fear stalks streets of Israeli city where Jews and Arabs mixed freely Israeli policemen gather as they inspect a partially torched police station in the Arab-Jewish mixed coastal city of Acre, Israel May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Rami Ayyub reuters_tickers This content was published on May 13, 2021 - 20:20 May 13, 2021 - 20:20 By Rami Ayyub ACRE, Israel (Reuters) - In the mixed Arab and Jewish city of Acre, the holiday festival of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan would normally see families mi...