Many in Israel approved of the settler “pogrom” against Huwwara because they regard Palestinians as “animals,” a leading Israeli reporter explained to American Jews last week. Source Views: 0
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‘Palestinians are animals’ — Why many Jewish Israelis approve settler pogrom
Between army invasions and settler pogroms, the West Bank rises
Amid Israeli army assassinations and settler terror, Palestinians rally around armed resistance in a showing of spontaneous mass mobilization that has not been seen in decades. Source Views: 0
West Bank violence: Israel beefs up troops after settler rampage in Palestinian town
One person died, hundreds were injured, homes burned and cars torched when settlers rampaged in Hawara after a Palestinian killed two Israelis. Source Views: 0
‘Israel’ Plans to Build 18,000 More Settler Units in Occupied West Bank
January 26, 2023 By Staff, Agencies Zionist media sources reported that the current far-right administration in Tel Aviv is planning to take unprecedented steps to pave the way for further expansion of unlawful settlement construction in the occupied West Bank. According to ‘Israel’ Hayom newspaper, Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet has begun discussing measures […]
Hamas warns of settler intrusions into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa to celebrate Hanukkah
Palestinian resistance group has warned of grave consequences from planned settler intrusions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, reports Anadolu Agency. Settler groups have called on supporters to force their way into the flashpoint site on Sunday to celebrate the 8-day holiday. In a Saturday […]
2022 was a record year for settler violence. Palestinians say next year will be even worse.
Israeli settler violence against Palestinians soared in 2022. Palestinians say the worrying trend will only worsen as right-wing extremists make their home in Israel’s new government. Source Views: 0
Settler invasion of Ramallah exposes PA impotence
At approximately 9:00 a.m. on October 13, Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Tireh neighborhood in Ramallah, to conduct Talmudic prayers and ceremonies. This practice, among other strategies, has been commonly employed by religious settlers as a means of providing the Israeli Supreme Court with legal grounds to take over Palestinian land, suggesting that those lands hold […]
Settler stops car to open fire on Palestinian house
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’24 hours of hell’: Israeli settler gangs terrorize Palestinian town under army protection
Israeli settlers continued their attack on the Palestinian town of Huwwara in the northern occupied West Bank for the second day in a row on Friday, vandalizing several storefronts, vehicles, and homes, while Israeli forces fired live ammunition at Palestinians in the town. At around 1 p.m., as Friday prayers were ongoing in the town, […]
Abbas condemns murder of Palestinian by Jewish settler
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the murder of a Palestinian man by an illegal Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank. PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh also condemned the killing of Ali Harb, 27, in the village of Iskaka, near Salfit. After he was stabbed, Israeli occupation soldiers in the area, who protect […]
Israeli Settler Invade Al-Aqsa With A Huge Response Expected
This Sunday, approximately 70,000 ultra-nationalist Israeli settlers attended their annual racist “flag march” during which Palestinians, their properties, and Holy sites came under attack in Jerusalem’s old city. In an unexpected twist, however, no violent reaction came as was threatened. So what can we now expect? An unprecedented attack against Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim identity […]
Jerusalem’s Heads of Churches protest settler takeover of hotel in Old City’s Christian quarter
On Sunday evening, March 27, radical members of an extremist settler group were accompanied by Israeli police as they took control of the Little Petra Hotel in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Located near the Jaffa Gate in occupied East Jerusalem, the hotel is the subject of a years-long and as-yet […]
We ask Palestine’s friends in the U.S. to work to defund settler groups that push us out of our homes
Liberation leaders and protestors from all corners of Historic Palestine marched on the streets of occupied Hebron to commemorate the lives taken during the Ibrahimi mosque massacre. On February 25, 1994, the extremist settler Baruch Goldstein entered the sacred Ibrahimi mosque armed with an assault rifle and murdered 29 Palestinian worshipers, injuring another 125 before […]
Settler group Elad is Israel’s weapon to evict Palestinians from Silwan
Elad settler organisation, also known as Ir David Foundation, is Israel’s weapon to steal Palestinian lands, including private land owned by Palestinians who fled Israeli aggression in 1948 or 1967. The pro-settlement Israeli association was established in 1986, and has been operating mainly in the occupied Palestinian village of Silwan in East Jerusalem, south of the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque. It has been working to […]
US army tour with Hebron settler-extremist legitimizes occupation and signals Biden’s collapse
Why did US officers visit the illegal, fortified Israeli settlement in the Palestinian city of Hebron earlier this month? I want the Biden administration to answer this question. Like many who have Palestinian friends or who follow events in Israel/Palestine, I was dismayed to learn of the visit three weeks ago by U.S. Army officers […]
Jewish Settler Runs over, Kills Palestinian Man near Ramallah –
January 6, 2022 Mustafa Falaneh, 25, was killed when a Jewish settler ran him over near Ramallah. (Photo: via Social Media) A Jewish settler on Thursday ran over and killed a Palestinian man as he was on his way to work, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The victim was identified to be Mustafa […]
Israeli settler runs over elderly Palestinian
An Israeli settler rammed his car into an elderly Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday evening, injuring him severely, Anadolu News Agency reports. The man identified as Suleiman Al-Hathaleen, 69, is an activist in the Palestinian resistance to Israeli settlement projects on the Palestinian land. Tareq, his relative, told Anadolu Agency that the […]
Israeli Settler Violence In The West Bank Is Leading To An Armed Uprising
Last Saturday Palestinians endured a Christmas nightmare as Israeli settler lynch mobs attacked villages near the city of Nablus, injuring over 200. Attacks like these are not going away and are forcing West Bank Palestinians to take to extreme measures to defend their homes. 247 Palestinians were injured — 10 with live ammunition and 48 […]
Israel’s prime minister says settler violence is ‘marginal’
Israel views settler violence “severely” and it is taking steps to tackle the phenomenon, the country’s Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev said Monday when he met in Jerusalem with U.S. Under-Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. The declaration comes in the context of a 150% increase in Jewish settler-colonialist terrorization of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian […]
On Haaretz: Can Settler Colonialism Be Liberal and Apartheid Be Progressive?
December 13, 2021 Palestinians at an Israeli military checkpoint. (Photo: via ActiveStills.org) By Ilan Pappe Can you imagine in the heyday of Apartheid in South Africa, a political movement or newspaper that would be regarded as liberal, and commended worldwide for its bravery, notwithstanding expressing their support for the Apartheid system itself? Can you imagine what […]