Israeli Occupation Archive

Asa Winstanley: Secret files reveal Anti-Defamation League spied on Noam Chomsky

Editor — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:43:05 +0000

Two confidential Anti-Defamation League memos from the 1970s show that the pro-Israel “civil rights” group sent spies to report on talks by Noam Chomsky, a noted critic of Israel. “Chomsky is an Arab...

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...

Moshé Machover: Zionist myths – Hebrew versus Jewish identity

Editor — Sat, 18 May 2013 02:03:42 +0000

Let me start with a proposition that should by now be a matter of general knowledge: the totality of Jews do not constitute a nation in the modern sense of this term; nor have they been a nation in...

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...

Abe Hayeem: A fair and just consideration of Susya’s master plan

Editor — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:27:28 +0000

This is an appeal for you to follow the recommendations of the International Court of Justice regarding the building of the Separation Wall and all of the Israel settlements in the occupied West...

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...

Al-Nakba

Editor — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:48:35 +0000

“The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago….” So begins this four-part Al-Jazeera series on the ‘Nakba’ (the ‘catastrophe’), about the history of the Palestinian exodus...

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...

Activists not to drop charges against Israeli soldiers for Mavi-Marmara attack

Editor — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:24:10 +0000

According to Article 90 of the Turkish Constitution, international agreements prevail over domestic laws if there is a conflict between them and no appeal can be made to the Constitutional Court...

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...

On Nakba anniversary, refugees make almost half of population

Editor — Wed, 15 May 2013 03:36:41 +0000

The number of Palestinians who remained in their towns and village in 1948 after the Nakba was estimated at 154,000. Their number is now estimated as 1.4 million on the 65rd anniversary of the Nakba....

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...

Letter sent to Prof. Stephen Hawking

Editor — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:23:41 +0000

The following letter was sent to Stephen Hawking by 20 scientists urging him to reconsider his participation, as a keynote speaker, at Israel's Presidential Conference, a major public event...

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...

Stephen Hawking letter: Some facts on Israel and Palestine

Editor — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:00:41 +0000

In our letter to you we make reference to a range of aspects of Israel’s treatment of Palestine and the Palestinians. Our descriptions there are necessarily abbreviated, and this note provides 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...

Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott

Editor — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:50:46 +0000

Chomsky, a US professor and well-known supporter of the Palestinian cause, joined British academics from the universities of Cambridge, London, Leeds, Southampton, Warwick, Newcastle, York and the...

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: Missing from the Arab peace plan – an Israeli partner

Editor — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:43:56 +0000

Former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami: “Israel’s line was busy, or there was no one on the Israeli side to pick up the phone.”

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...

Shir Hever: Israel’s Syria strategy to weaken Hezbollah and profit from chaos

Editor — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:30:17 +0000

Israel apparently has bombed inside Syria, as most people that follow the news know by now. Originally, the propaganda or PR around this event was that they were bombing chemical weapons on their way...

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...

Musa Budeiri: Always with the oppressed – a farewell to Akiva Orr 1931-2013, humanist, radical, heretic

Editor — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:56:55 +0000

Akiva Orr was a larger than life character. He was a natural communicator, a performer and a raconteur in search of an audience... From the outset, his trajectory would lead him to critically engage...

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...

David Finkel: Realities of Zionism

Editor — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:01:35 +0000

Zionism is viewed [by Moshé Machover] as a colonial-settler project, not a national liberation movement. Its particular aims, “based not on exploiting the labor of the indigenous people but aiming to...

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: Seven Deadly Myths

Editor — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:07:15 +0000

When the government tries to silence a history, a light is shed on the nation’s biggest taboo. This is the story of those who fought to erase Palestine and created an Israeli landscape of denial.

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...

Idan Landau: Israel gives up white phosphorus, because ‘it doesn’t photograph well’

Editor — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:00:44 +0000

A senior IDF officer: “As we learned during Cast Lead, it [white phosphorus] doesn’t photograph well, so we are reducing the supply and we will not purchase beyond what we already have.”

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...

Important update on the international petition campagin to save the life of Lynne Stewart

Editor — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:00:09 +0000

A major milestone has been reached in the struggle for Lynne Stewart's freedom. Lynne Stewart wrote on April 26 to confirm that the Warden at FMC Carswell has recommended Compassionate Release to the...

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: Israeli football, racism and politics – the ugly side of the beautiful game

Editor — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:00:48 +0000

Israel’s increasing integration into European competitions, despite its refusal to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, respect human rights and halt illegal settlement, is, according to...

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...

Malaga Statement

Editor — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:38:28 +0000

Statement of representatives of 13 Palestinian, Israeli, and international organisations, and a number of international lawyers and legal experts, who held a meeting in Malaga, Spain, to discuss the...

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: Tony Blair’s tangled web – the Quartet Representative and the peace process

Editor — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:23:26 +0000

Tony Blair stepped down as British prime minister in 2007 and immediately assumed the position of representative to the Quartet, the international body overseeing the Israeli-Palestinian peace...

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 tourists face email inspections

Editor — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:55:56 +0000

Israeli security officials given approval to search email accounts of 'suspicious' travellers despite petition over invasion of privacy.

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...