Palestine Affairs

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   A Palestinian captive released in the Israel-Hamas captives exchange is embraced by a relative upon arrival at the Ramallah Cultural Centre in the occupied West Bank, 13 October 2025 ((Zain Jaafar/AFP)) Mainstream coverage of the Israel-Hamas captives exchange exposes Western media’s enduring pro-Israel bias, as Israelis are humanized while Palestinians are erased from view By Mohamed Elmasry, Reposted from Middle East Eye, October 14, 2025 On October 13, Israel and Hamas exchanged captives as part of US President Donald Trump‘s 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan. Mainstream Western media coverage of the exchange reflected the same pro-Israel bias that has long char...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   Red Cross bus, carrying Palestinians released in the 6th round of the ceasefire and prisoner swap agreement between Hamas and Israel, arrives Gaza European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza on February 15, 2025. ([Ashraf Amra – Anadolu Agency]) Anonymous testimonies from freed Palestinian prisoners have revealed the horrific sexual torture inflicted on them by Israel reposted from The New Arab Warning: Graphic descriptions of rape and torture throughout this article Anonymous testimonies from Palestinian prisoners have revealed the horrific rape, torture, and abuse that they suffered while being detained by Israel, despite Israeli attempts to threaten them into silence. Israel released ...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   ISRAELI ARMY STRAPS INJURED PALESTINIAN MAN TO THE FRONT OF A MILITARY VEHICLE AND USES HIM AS A HUMAN SHIELD, JENIN, JUNE 22, 2024. ((PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA)) Throughout the Gaza genocide, testimonies have documented the Israeli army’s use of Palestinian women as human shields. These are not isolated acts by rogue soldiers but a systematic practice known to Israeli commanders and acknowledged by soldiers. By Majd Jawad, Reposted from Mondoweiss, October 28, 2025 “They forced me to carry a drone into seven houses to film them, making sure they were empty of people or military equipment. My infant cried for hours while waiting for me. I begged them to let me breastfeed her, but they refused, continuing ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Trinity College Dublin students gathered for an announcement of full institutional divestment and academic boycotts of Israeli institutions. (Photo via @jennymaguir on Twitter/X) In 2025, students around the world came together to challenge their schools’ complicity in the Gaza genocide. Despite heavy repression, they won major victories, including divestment and commitments to cut ties with Israeli institutions. By Cameron Baillie, Reposted from Mondoweiss, December 31, 2025 Beginning amid Israel’s scholasticide and genocide of Palestinians—still ongoing—the sustained global student uprising for Palestinian liberation, or the Student Intifada, has energized, nay radicalized, an entire generation of politically engaged youth...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org   The Israel lobby is working frenetically to crush free speech world wide, while governments are either negligent in stopping it, or complicit. Reposted from Caitlin Johnstone, January 21, 2026 I’ve seen some Australians expressing confusion as to whether or not they can still legally criticize Israel online after new “hate speech” laws were passed on Tuesday under the pretense of combating “antisemitism”. The answer is yes, and you definitely should keep opposing Israel and its genocidal atrocities. I am worried that these new laws may indirectly have a bit of a chilling effect on pro-Palestine activism due to Australians not understanding these new laws and what people are allowed to do without b...

Posted by: John Phoenix Because of Israel's abusive policies, the human rights situation in Palestine and for Palestinians is alarming. (Pictured: a child in Gaza City.) (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images) Through the years, numerous humanitarian organizations have produced detailed reports on the situation in Israel-Palestine. Below are some of them.  – By IAK Staff While both the Israeli and Palestinian governments have committed human rights violations, the Israeli abuses have been far more numerous, significant, and causative. Moreover, many Israeli abuses are directly connected with Israel’s decades-long military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, theft of Palestinian land, and imprisoning of Palestinians behind a barrier – all of which violate internationa...

Posted by: John Phoenix  contact@ifamericansknew.org  Most of the two million people living in Gaza are sheltering in makeshift tents amid the ruins of Israel's devastating genocide. (screenshot) Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to be ongoing, and in its 835th day.) Israeli fire killed three Palestinians in two separate incidents ⁠in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, despite the declared “ceasefire” that took effect on October 11, 2025. Since the “ceasefire” began on October 11, Israel has killed at least 486 Palestinians. At least 1,341 have been injured. Death toll figures are tentative.  ...

Posted by: John Phoenix The moment Canada deemed two UN scholars a “security threat” Author’s NoteI wrote this essay to show what really happened when Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained at the Canadian border — and to explore what it reveals about power, accountability, and the fight to speak truth to authority. Introduction: Two Scholars Detained, A Truth Confronted Richard Falk has spent the better part of a century inside the world’s most serious rooms: the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the international legal tribunals where the language of war, occupation, and human rights is hammered into shape. At ninety-five, he carries his papers in neat folders and moves with the slow care of a man who has spent a lifetime thinking rath...