Gaza – a personal account

Khan Younis Training Camp refugee centre in southern Gaza. In 2012 and 2013 when I spent extensive time in Gaza I met some wonderful people. People with nothing but love in their hearts who had already endured unspeakable horrors during the 2008/9 Cast Lead Operation and the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defence in November of…

Do You Condemn Israel?

Consortium News It has become customary for Arabs invited on Western TV news programs to be asked, off the bat, to condemn this or that act that Israel classifies as terrorism.   When I came to the U.S. in 1983, this was already standard practice.  But back then, the Palestinian “terrorists” were secular: so the media…

Mutiny at the BBC – ‘gravest possible concerns’ over Palestine coverage

BBC daubed in red paint by protestors in solidarity with Palestinians JADALIYYA – In Israel’s current genocidal war on Gaza, with almost ten thousand Palestinians dead and counting, it is no surprise that truth has also been a casualty. The violence in Palestine, perpetrated by Israel with increasing ferocity since Hamas attacks on Israeli targets on 7 October 2023,…