Last Thursday, an Israeli soldier was arrested after the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem posted horrific video of the soldier shooting a 21-year-old Palestinian man in the head from point-blank range, and killing him, even though he was already shot,… Read More ›
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Most Israelis Say Army Medic Who Killed Wounded Suspect Is Not a Murderer
WHILE HUMAN RIGHTS activists and defense officials in Israel were quick to condemn an army medic caught on video last week shooting a wounded Palestinian suspect in the head, the soldier was defended over the weekend, and even celebrated, by… Read More ›
Israeli Rights Group Releases Video of Soldier Executing Wounded Palestinian Suspect
Last Updated | Friday, 3:07 p.m. An Israeli soldier was arrested on Thursday after a rights group published clear video images of him shooting a wounded, immobilized Palestinian suspect in the head following a knife attack in the West Bank… Read More ›
University of California Adopts Policy Linking Anti-Zionism to Anti-Semitism
The regents of the University of California unanimously adopted a new policy on discrimination on Wednesday that links anti-Semitism to opposition to Zionism, the ideology asserting that the Jewish people have a right to a nation-state in historic Palestine. At… Read More ›
Sheldon Adelson’s Israeli Newspaper Has a Crush on Donald Trump
While Sheldon Adelson has yet to endorse a candidate for president, and refused to let reporters peek at his ballot at last month’s caucus in Nevada, it’s starting to look like the conservative rebellion against Donald Trump will not be… Read More ›
Israeli Police Officer Who Shot Wounded Palestinian Suspect Could Face Charges
Israeli and Palestinian journalists and rights activists are apparently not the only ones wondering if video recorded in the immediate aftermath of a knife attack in Israel showed the suspected attacker being executed by the police after he had already… Read More ›
Was a Palestinian Suspected of Killing an American in Israel Executed by the Police?
A wave of knife attacks on Israelis continued on Tuesday, as a Palestinian man, suspected of killing an American tourist and stabbing at least nine others, was shot and killed by police officers near the port of Jaffa. A Dutch journalist, Olaf Koens,… Read More ›
Read the Sexist Email Exchange About Rula Jebreal With Former AIPAC Spokesman
(updated below) Last October, Hooman Bakhtiar, a producer with the U.S. government-funded Voice of America, sent an email to Josh Block, former national spokesperson for AIPAC and now head of “The Israel Project.” Bakhtiar told Block he had “been tasked to… Read More ›
Hillary Clinton, With Little Notice, Vows to Embrace an Extremist Agenda on Israel
Former President Bill Clinton on Monday met in secret (no press allowed) with roughly 100 leaders of South Florida’s Jewish community, and, as the Times of Israel reports, “He vowed that, if elected, Hillary Clinton would make it one of her top… Read More ›
Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation
THE U.K. GOVERNMENT today announced that it is now illegal for “local [city] councils, public bodies, and even some university student unions … to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products,… Read More ›