Palestine

An ever-lurking confusion that has been gaining ground in recent times is that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism. Nothing could be further from the truth. We understand that this confusion is three-folded: the first is deliberate and therefore criminal, as does the racist State of Israel and its...

Mahdi Amel was born in Lebanon in 1936, where he completed his secondary education. He then moved to France, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in philosophy. He worked for a short period in Algeria after the victory of the revolution against French colonialism and was...

The Palestinian population is once again rising against the policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing carried out by the racist state of Israel in the ongoing Nakba (the catastrophe) since the creation of the Israeli state in 1948. The uprising started in al-Quds city (Jerusalem) and spread to the...

  Nearly 400 injured, among them 37 children, some of whom are in grave conditions, many Palestinian political prisoners and the desecration of one of the three most important sites in Islam: the Al-Aqsa mosque (in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan) have marked the last few days...

The popular resistance in Jerusalem, which spread all over the occupied Palestine, against the Zionist occupation forces' project that aims at expelling the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood from their homes and housing more settlers, succeeded in forcing the occupation to postpone the date that was scheduled for...

On December 17th 2010, the fruit salesman Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to his own body in protest against both the seizure of his apples and police corruption in the rural city of Sidi Bouzid, in the Tunisian inland. By Fábio Bosco   In a few days, the protests spread over the whole...

The BDS campaign demands the immediate release of their coordinator Mahmoud Nawajaa, arrested today by Israeli Occupation Forces. The IWL-FI endorses the BDS campaign and their call for the immeadiate release of Mahmoud Najawaa and all Palestinian Political prisoners. See below BDS Campaign Communiqué: Mahmoud Nawajaa, a prominent Palestinian human rights defender,...

In the 72nd anniversary of Nakba - the Palestinian catastrophe with the creation of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948 - Arab regimes are still at fault with the Palestinian cause. Among the 22 Arab League countries, only three - Algeria, Tunisia and Kuwait - are not...

On January 28, 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump and Zionist PM Netaniahu announced the so-called “Deal of the Century” which means more apartheid and ethnic cleansing for the Palestinians. Both PA Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab League rejected the deal. What should the Palestinians do?  By Hassan al-Barazili   Firstly, we need to figure...

The coward assassination of Iran's top military commander Qassem Souleimani by the United States on January 3 divided the main Palestinian political parties. By: Hassan al-Barazili The Palestinian National Authority (PA), led by Mahmoud Abbas, has not issued any statement condemning U.S. imperialist action. The PA's stand represents a capitulation both to...