‘They told my brother I was dead’: inside Israel’s psychological warfare against Palestinian prisoners

April 17, 2025

Shatha Hanaysha

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are subjected to conditions of torture, starvation, and torment that are the worst they have been since 1967. My brother has been imprisoned amid these conditions for over a year.

 

Demonstrators carry posters and portraits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails during a gathering to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day in the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 17, 2025. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images)

Saudi defence minister visits Tehran before Iran-US talks

April 17, 2025

Iran and the US are set to hold a second round of talks in Rome about Tehran’s nuclear programme.

 

 Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Mohammed Bagheri, right, receiving Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Tehran [Iranian Army Office/AFP]

Gordon G. Chang et al: Shut up about Donald J. Trump, North Korea, China and everything else NATO pay you to prattle on about

April 17, 2025

Declan Hayes

Although you may not have read Chang’s latest screed, if you have ever perused the offerings of any airport book store, you will be familiar with this genre that is full of scary and lurid headlines regarding world domination.

Israeli War Crimes in Gaza Continue: Bombardment, Water Deprivation, Burning People Alive in Tents

April 16, 2025

( IMEMC ) – In the 28th straight day since obliterating the ceasefire agreement on March 18th (the day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to testify in his trial for corruption), Israeli forces continued to bombard the terrified residents of the Gaza Strip, who have no place to go and no shelter from the bombs.

Judge blocks deportation of Columbia protest organizer Mahdawi

April 16, 2025

Juan Cole

A federal judge on Monday blocked the deportation of a detained Columbia University protest organizer, Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder from Palestine, court records show.

Europe was Hottest Ever Recorded last Year, and is Heating up Faster than any other Continent

April 16, 2025

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Copernicus Climate Change Service (abbreviated as C3S) has just issued The European State of the Climate for 2024.

 

زندانی افکار

یکی‌ بود یکی‌ نبود، غیر از خدا هیچ کس نبود. در زمان‌های پیشین، و در شهر کوچکی سالها بود که مردم شهر از خشک‌سالی‌ رنج می‌بردند، و زندگی‌ مردم شهر به دلیل وجود این خشک‌سالی‌ بسیار دشوار شده بود. چون روزگار مردم این شهر از کشاورزی می‌گذشت، بدون آب هیچ کار کشاورزی نمی‌توانستند بکنند، چرا که هیچ دریائی، دریاچه‌ای، جویباری در این شهر نبود و دیگر چاه‌های شهر هم خشک شده بودند. نخست آذوقه‌هائی را که در انبارهای شهر باقی‌ مانده بود بین مردم تقسیم کردند، و سپس درخت‌ها را بریدند و تقسیم کردند و بعد هرچه گیاه بود، حتّی علف‌ها را نیز تقسیم کردند. دیگر هیچ آذوقه‌ای در شهر پیدا نمی‌شد، چرا که مردم تمام آذوقهٔ شهر را خورده بودند و هر چه حیوان بود کشته بودند، و حتّی سگ و گربه‌های این شهر هم نسل‌شان را برانداخته بودند.ا

Palestinians fear Gaza’s largest cemetery has been destroyed. Not even our dead can have peace.

April15, 2025

Nadera Mushtha

Al-Sharqiya Cemetery, near Gaza City, is the largest cemetery in Gaza. It has been inaccessible since the genocide began and many fear it has been bulldozed and destroyed, along with the remains of our loved ones.

 

Palestinians visit the graves of their relatives after Eid al-Fitr prayers at Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in Gaza City on March 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

April 15, 2025

Marjorie Cohn

With no recourse in US courts or Congress, the Taxpayers Against Genocide movement pivots to UN Human Rights Council.

In New York City, a coalition of anti-war groups gathered outside the IRS offices in Manhattan demanding no taxes for war and militarism, on April 15, 2024. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

‘Death Sentence’ – Israel bombs Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, again

April 14, 2025
An Israeli airstrike early Sunday morning targeted a building inside the Baptist Hospital (Al-Ahli Hospital) in Gaza City, Al-Jazeera reported.

 

Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN) 

Iran Is Not Building a Nuclear Bomb: A Fact Sheet

April 14, 2025
Ted Snider
“You know, it’s not a complicated formula,” U.S. President Donald Trump said. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That’s all there is.” So, negotiations should be successful because Iran neither has, nor are they pursuing, a nuclear weapon.

LIVE BLOG: Israel Bombs Baptist Hospital, Commits Massacre in Deir Al-Balah – Day 555

April 13, 2025

   Killed    Wounded    Missing

50,944    116,156    14,000

Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

The largest rally we have ever held (36,000 in LA)

April 13, 2025
When I took the stage in Los Angeles yesterday and looked out at the crowd, I could see people a half-mile away. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) people attended — it is the largest rally we have ever had.

Katz declares Rafah 'part of Israel's buffer zone' after completing seizure of Morag Axis

April 12, 2025

Israel controls three corridors in Gaza, dissecting the strip in preparation for long-term occupation and the construction of Jewish settlements

Take Back America From the Oligarchs

April 12, 2025
Kevin Fitzgerald
What we are witnessing is not just economic decline—it is a calculated transfer of power, wealth, and dignity from the people who built this country to the corporate and political class who believe they own it.

 

 Demonstrators march during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in Houston, Texas, on April 5, 2025. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images)

This Passover, We Must Reckon With Israel’s Massacre of Children in Gaza

April 11, 2025
Brant Rosen
The Passover story decries a ruler who inflicts atrocities on children. The Israeli military is doing that now in Gaza.

Has Israel turned Gaza into a 21st Century Concentration Camp?

April 11, 2025
Dr. Mustafa Fetouri
The basic definition of “concentration camp” is simple: a large place where a large group of people, usually civilians, are imprisoned without due process. There are various reasons as to why they are kept in confinement, including their ethnicity, religion or because they oppose the authorities ordering their imprisonment.

As Israel escalates strikes in Lebanon, residents say it ‘will not keep us from the path of resistance’

April 11, 2025
Roqayah Chamseddine
The failure of the Lebanese government to protect against Israeli attacks is leading Lebanon down two roads: either Hezbollah will re-enter the war in defense of the Lebanese people, or the government will prevail and content itself to sit back.

The Ecology of Occupation: Palestine’s Struggle for Land and Life

April 10, 2025
Michael Morrill
In the fractured and scarred landscapes of Palestine, where the earth’s skin is etched with memories of violence, dispossession, and resistance, there lies an unspoken tragedy. An ecological tragedy. Beyond the suffocating walls of the occupation, beneath the rubble of homes and the twisting olive trees, there is a landscape slowly being strangled, not only by military might but by the relentless, invisible hand of environmental degradation. This is a tale not just of loss—of life and liberty—but of a land under siege, of natural resources turned into tools of war and power.

'They Are Laughing at Us All': Trump Tariff Whiplash Boosts Wealth of Mega-Rich by $304 Billion

April 10, 2025
Jake Johnson
"Is there any doubt in anyone's mind they were tipped off?" asked one progressive news outlet.