Israeli Occupation Archive

Lia Tarachansky: Israeli military leaders speak out against Iran strike

Lia Tarachansky — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:28:37 +0000

The rift in Israel between the political leadership’s push for an attack on Iran, and the security establishment’s opposition widened in recent weeks. Three new voices spoke out on the question of...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Israel ranked alongside Iran as one of countries with most negative global influence

Editor — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:57:52 +0000

Israel has been ranked in the top four countries that most negatively influence the word, according to a global public opinion poll conducted by the BBC... Where do the negative evaluations of Israel...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Lia Tarachansky: Israeli police target activists as social protests restart

Lia Tarachansky — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:39:36 +0000

On Saturday Israelis organized the first demonstration of what was meant to be a resurrection of last summer’s protests against the high cost of living. Last July protest mass demonstrations reached...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Walid Khalidi: On Nakba Day 2012

Editor — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:13:13 +0000

Tuesday, 15 May 2012, is the 64th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day. This date commemorates the end, on 15 May 1948, of the so-called “Mandate” over Palestine “granted” to Britain by the League of...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Thaer Halahleh’s letter to his daughter: “My Beloved Lamar…Forgive me”

Editor — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:00:10 +0000

“When you grow up you will understand how injustice was brought upon your father and upon thousands of Palestinians whom the occupation has put in prisons and jail cells, shattering their lives and...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Lia Tarachansky: Two of mass Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike “on verge of death”

Editor — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:31:47 +0000

The Israeli supreme court rejected this week the appeal of two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for 70 days. The rejection was described as a death sentence by Physicians for Human Rights -...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Jonathan Cook: Netanyahu crowns himself king of Israel

Editor — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:01:32 +0000

[The newly-created coalition] gives Netanyahu time to entrench moves towards authoritarianism. Netanyahu has been behind a series of measures to weaken the media, human rights groups, and the courts....

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Tel Aviv University okays Nakba Day ceremony, despite Student Union opposition

Editor — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:00:31 +0000

Safi Kadaan: “We’re talking about a new idea, a new campus framework in which there will be a ceremony not just for Arab students, but for everyone.”

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Chris Hedges: Welcome to the asylum

Editor — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:45:34 +0000

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Amira Hass: For Israel, punishing Palestinians is not enough

Editor — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:32:08 +0000

Israelis are not satisfied with the various measures to worsen [Palestinian] prison conditions. When it comes to Palestinians, punishment is not enough. Prison must also be never-ending revenge that...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Gilbert Achcar: Never again

Editor — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:14:32 +0000

In the name of ["Never again to us, the Jews"], they end up denying the humanity of the victims of Israel, the purported "State of the Jews", just as most oppressors throughout history have denied...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

IDF closes probe into Israeli air strike that killed 21 members of Gaza family

Editor — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:14:01 +0000

Military prosecution says will take no legal steps against those responsible for deaths of Samouni family, killed in their home during Operation Cast Lead.

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Israeli left wing activists held indoors by police during Independence Day event

Editor — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:59:15 +0000

Members of the left wing organization Zochrot were attempting to distribute flyers containing the names of Palestinian villages that were evacuated or destroyed in 1948, when they were held indoors...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

East Jerusalem man, denied residency by Israel, effectively prisoner in own home

Editor — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:25:11 +0000

Amir Salima, 21, from the Old City of Jerusalem, has no legal status - not in Israel, not in the Palestinian Authority and not anywhere else. He has no identity card, no passport, he cannot register...

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Clampdown on Palestinian media spreads to the web

Editor — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:04:58 +0000

The Palestinian Authority has quietly instructed Internet providers to block access to news websites whose reporting is critical of President Mahmoud Abbas, according to senior government officials...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

UMASS Boston Student Senate passes resolution calling for divestment from Boing

Editor — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:00:27 +0000

The UMass Boston Undergraduate Student Government unanimously passed a bill demanding that the UMass Foundation, the university’s investment fund, divest from Boeing and other companies profiting...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

‘Hunger strike a signal to world’s oppressed’

Editor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:25:19 +0000

Khader Adnan: I ask God to move the consciences of the free people around the world. I thank them all, especially Ireland, for they have stood by my hunger strike. I ask them to stand in solidarity...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Lia Tarachansky: Why Gaza’s healthcare fails thousands of injured

Lia Tarachansky — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:45:07 +0000

In 2011, over 9,000 patients from Gaza received emergency care in Israeli hospitals. Many of the admitted were injured in Israeli attacks on the strip. The director of Physicians for Human Rights’...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Conscientious objector Noam Gur sentenced to prison for her refusal to join the Israeli Army

Editor — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:00:02 +0000

"I refuse to join an army that has, since it was established, been engaged in dominating another nation, in plundering and terrorizing a civilian population that is under its control." IOA...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Raed Salah: Britain’s duty to the Palestinian people

Editor — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:34:47 +0000

The Palestinian issue can only be resolved if Israel and its supporters in Britain abandon the dogmas of supremacy and truly adhere to the universal values of justice and fairness. Britain has a...

The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...