Human Rights

02 Dec 2022; MEMO: Senior US officials are closer than ever to viewing Israel's occupation as apartheid. A wall-to-wall consensus exists within the international human rights community over Israel's practice of the crime of apartheid.

30 Nov 2022; MEMO: Former American diplomats have advised the administration of President Joe Biden to no longer provide offensive weapons or military assistance to Israel's incoming government, arguing that it contains more extremist elements which further threaten the situation in the Occupied West Bank.

30 Nov 2022; MEMO: Marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Iraqi President, Abdel Latif Rashid, stressed the Palestinians' "legitimate right to establish the Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital", and called for "joint action to put an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people."

Rashid's remarks came in a tweet posted on his official account on Twitter yesterday.

29 Nov 2022; MEMO: The United Nations (UN) coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, warned on Monday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "reaching a boiling point".

29 Nov 2022; MEMO: On the occasion of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, 29 November, the Palestinian Return Centre has called upon the international community to step up efforts to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their right to return to their homes.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman who massacred 10 Black shoppers and workers at a Buffalo supermarket pleaded guilty Monday to murder and hate-motivated terrorism charges, guaranteeing he will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Payton Gendron, 19, entered the plea Monday in a courthouse roughly two miles from the grocery store where he used a semiautomatic rifle and body armor to carry out a racist assault he hoped would help preserve white power in the U.S.

28 Nov 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammed Shtayyeh, accused, on Sunday, Israel of stealing 600 million cubic meters of Palestine's 800 million cubic meters and diverting it into its cities and settlements.

Shtayyeh made the remarks at the Fourth Arab Water Conference organised by the State of Palestine under the title "Arab Water Security for Life, Development and Peace".

28 Nov 2022; MEMO: Far-right politician, Itamar Ben-Gvir, will be Israel's National Security Minister under a coalition deal with Prime Minister-designate, Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, in what is set to be the most right-wing government in the country's history, Reuters reports.

by Dr Ramzy Baroud

As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel's own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic western hypocrisy.

28 Nov 2022; MEMO: The Israeli occupation authorities have banned Israeli car owners from having their vehicles repaired at workshops owned and run by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Arab48.com reported on Sunday. Those who ignore the ban face heavy fines and even prison sentences.