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Gershon Baskin will discuss options for peace in Palestine...

The torrent of scorn one hears in Israel about U.S. President Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize Committee's decision to award him the peace prize is more mockery than anything else....

Richard Goldstone visited the Gaza City neighborhood of Zaytoun in late June to tour the compound of the extended Samouni family, the subject of coverage here in recent weeks ("'I fed him like a baby bird,'" September 17; "Death in the Samouni compound," September 25). Twenty-nine members of the family, all of them civilians, were killed in the Israel Defense Force's winter assault - 21 during the shelling of a house where IDF soldiers had gathered some 100 members of the family a day earlier...

Tell President Obama to stand behind his message of change. On Sept. 22, 2009, Palestinian human rights activist Mohammad Othman was arrested while trying to reenter the West Bank from Jordan. We call on the US President to stand behind the right of all people to peacefully resist occupation and demand that Israel release Mohammad. Add your voice! Please sign the letter at http://www.petitiononline.com/STW2/petition.html....

I also belong to those who raised an eyebrow when it was announced that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. It is possible that the American president is a nice man, certainly more than his predecessor, and that his Cairo speech was, coming from the mouth of an American president, a refreshing change, but from here to being a warrior for peace the road is long....

Local Palestinian and Jewish LGBT\queer activists held a protest against promoting LGBT tourism to Israel in front of a Tel Aviv gay tourism conference...

Israel's Declaration of Independence states that the Jewish people arose in the Land of Israel and was exiled from its homeland. Every Israeli schoolchild is taught that this happened during the period of Roman rule, in 70 CE. The nation remained loyal to its land, to which it began to return after two millennia of exile. Wrong, says the historian Shlomo Zand, in one of the most fascinating and challenging books published here in a long time. There never was a Jewish people, only a Jewish rel...

One cannot speak about, or try to analyze, Zionism and its product, the State of Israel, while evading the core of their essence: colonialism. Independent of its motivations (resolving the Jewish question in Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century), Zionism is a colonialist movement that has created a colonialist state. In fact, Israel is one of the youngest colonial states still existing in the twenty-first century. Zionism is colonialist in its goal and means: a Western project ...

On Monday, October 5, 2009, a group of ISM’ers visited Linan Yosif Abo Gholbi in her extended family’s home near Nablus, at the invitation of Tanweer, a grass roots organization based in Nablus. She is one of the 20 women prisoners who were recently released from Israeli prisons in exchange for a video from Hamas proving that Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured in 2006, was still alive....

(Jerusalem) - Israeli authorities should immediately lift restrictions that have left students in Gaza's public schools without textbooks and the most basic school supplies, such as notebooks and pens, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel severely limits imports into Gaza of a wide variety of basic goods, from food to construction materials....