West Bank

Nazi soldiers uprooted, Monday, dozens of Palestinian olive trees in Bardala village, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank. Zayed Sawafta, the head of Bardala Village Council, said several army jeeps and bulldozers invaded the village, before storming an olive orchard. Sawafta added that the Nazi soldiers uprooted dozens of olive trees, in an orchard owned by Khaled Roshdi Sawafta, in the western area of the village. In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the Nazi soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man from his home and installed many roadblocks. The Nazi soldiers also abducted three Palestinians, including a father and his son, in Qusra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and at the southern entrance of Nablus city. In addition, the Nazi sol...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, a young Palestinian man from his home in Hebron city, in the southern part of the Nazi occupied West Bank, and installed many roadblocks. Media sources in Hebron said the Nazi soldiers invaded the Jabal ar-Rahma area, in the center of the city, before invading and searching homes, and abducted a young man, identified as Yacoub Daoud al-Masri. They added that the Nazi soldiers installed many roadblocks, especially in Jabal Johar area in the southern part of Hebron city, in addition to the al-Kassara area, and the entrance of the al-Fawwar refugee camp, in addition to the Sammoa’ the Yatta towns, south of Hebron, before stopping and searching dozens of cars and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards. In related ...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, three Palestinians, including a father and his son, in Qusra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and at the southern entrance of Nablus city. Media sources said several Nazi army jeeps invaded Qusra, before the soldiers stormed and violently searched a few homes. They added that the soldiers abducted No’man Qassem Kanaan, and his son, Adham. Furthermore, undercover Nazi soldiers kidnapped a young man, identified as Fadi Yousef al-Qanni, after ambushing him at the southern entrance of Nablus city. In addition, the Nazi soldiers shot and injured, on Monday at dawn, three Palestinians and abducted one, in Tammoun town, south of Tubas city, in northeastern West Bank. Also dawn, the soldiers killed four Palest...

CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG  Protesters outside the Labour party headquarters in London, Sept. 2018 A new, “improved” definition of antisemitism still fails to acknowledge the history of Palestinian dispossession, preferring to focus on Israeli Jews’ desire to just live their lives, liberated from any obligation to provide Palestinians with actual equality or dignity. by Kathryn Shihadah The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism (JDA) was released in March as a progressive variant of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) “working definition” of anti-Semitism – a definition that, despite its wide acceptance, is deeply problematic. Progressives agree that JDA is a huge improvement over IHRA. JDA acknowledges that support for the Palestinian ca...

The Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil, Hebron. (Photo: File) Israeli occupation forces today attacked Palestinians who were protesting Israeli construction near the Ibrahimi mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) and detained three people, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israel started construction work at the Ibrahimi mosque in order to facilitate the arrival of Jews at the holy site revered by Muslims as one of their most important holy places in Palestine, but later divided by the Israeli occupation authorities between Muslims and Jews, which they refer to as Cave of the Patriarchs. Sarah Wilkinson@swilkinsonbc3 Palestinians peacefully protesting the israeli alterations to Ibrahimi Mosque kidnapped by israeli "soldiers", others tear gassed &a...

By Ramzy Barou Jonah Goldberg and Michael Ledeen have much in common. They are both writers and also cheerleaders for military interventions and, often, for frivolous wars. Writing in the conservative rag, The National Review, months before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Goldberg paraphrased a statement which he attributed to Ledeen with reference to the interventionist US foreign policy. “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business,” Goldberg wrote, quoting Ledeen. Those like Ledeen, the neoconservative intellectual henchman type, often get away with this kind of provocative rhetoric for various reasons. American intelligentsia, especially those who are clo...

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported, Saturday, that the Nazi occupation authorities issued another Administrative Detention order against a hunger-striking political prisoner. The PPP stated that the detainee, Ahmad Radwan Hamamra, from Bethlehem city south of the Nazi occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, began the hunger strike 15 days ago. It added that the detainee is protesting his continued imprisonment without charges or trial under the arbitrary Administrative Detention orders. The PPS said Hamamra was slapped with a six-month administrative detention order for the third time since he was abducted by the Nazi soldiers in August 2020. Hamamra was supposed to be released on October 16th, when his second Administrative Detention ...

A group of fanatic illegal Nazi JEWISH colonizers attacked, on Saturday evening, Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the Nazi occupied West Bank, wounding a woman, and causing damage to the properties. Eyewitnesses said several paramilitary Nazi JEWISH colonizers from the illegal Kiryat Arba’ colony, attacked Palestinian homes in the Wad al-Haseen neighborhood. They added that the attack caused damage to the homes, and led to the injury of one woman, identified as Jihad Hussein Es’eifan, 40. Palestinian medics provided the woman with the needed treatment before moving her to the Hebron governmental hospital.