The Electronic Intifada
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Palestine’s weapon of mass instruction.
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"I am haunted by Hind Rajab’s final phone call. The gunfire audible through the line as the little girl begs for rescue tears my heart. Audio from the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites sounded like hell: screaming, bullets and panic."
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Why I quit Dell over Gaza
I could no longer sell my labor to a company enabling genocide.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-i-quit-dell-over-gaza/51219
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“Justice is the end of Zionism.”
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German media ignores allegations that Israel raped German journalist
International activists with the Freedom Flotilla say they were abused, assaulted and humiliated in Israeli detention.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/german-media-ignores-allegations-israel-raped-german-journalist/51210
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“For residents, this is about the possible erasure of the political status they have maintained for close to eight decades.”
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Jenin and Tulkarm refugees fear permanent displacement – again
Forcibly removed from their camps in the northern West Bank, twice-over refugees fear for their internationally mandated rights.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/jenin-and-tulkarm-refugees-fear-permanent-displacement-again/51207
5 days ago
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Who paid for German lawmaker's AIPAC trip?
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Who paid for German lawmaker's AIPAC trip?
Leading pro-Israel advocate in European Parliament depicts vetting of aid workers as reasonable.
https://davidcronin.substack.com/p/who-paid-for-german-lawmakers-aipac
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“What is happening to us is like a school – a school of life, of struggle, of steadfastness, of how you can live and resist.”
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The soil is everything
Tulkarm farming family face losing their land, as the Israeli military orders their farm demolished.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/soil-everything/51195
7 days ago
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“Gaza is a glimpse into the future. I am very much afraid.”
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Old school imperialism is alive and well
From Palestine to Venezuela, Western colonialism has dropped its mask.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/old-school-imperialism-alive-and-well/51201
7 days ago
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Germany grovels to Trump
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13 days ago
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PEN’s acceptance of funding from the foundation is not just controversial; it amounts to institutional complicity.
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Funding for PEN Pinter Prize is irredeemably tainted
Blavatnik foundation is deeply enmeshed with Israel’s academic-military architecture of occupation.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/funding-pen-pinter-prize-irredeemably-tainted/51189
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“Do you have electricity? Do you have water? Do you have a washing machine? A TV? An oven? Do you have a cozy home? These are blessings.”
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How far we live. How close we feel
A short phone call with my family in Gaza.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-far-we-live-how-close-we-feel/51188
17 days ago
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Handwringing over Jerusalem, EU aids colonizers
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18 days ago
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“This moment doesn’t feel real,” my friend Hassan said. “Your father is escaping a fire we still have to live in.”
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Trapped between two different worlds
When my father evacuated to Italy I was hopeful my family would be next; my hope is now fading.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/trapped-between-two-different-worlds/51178
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Without the familiar streets, the fireworks, and the gatherings with family, it was hard to feel the same hope for the year ahead; the rituals that once let us imagine a future seemed lost along with our homes and our neighborhoods.
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New Year’s rituals in Gaza transformed
A writer returns to Gaza City to ring in 2026 only to find that the city is not what it used to be.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/new-years-rituals-gaza-transformed/51165
22 days ago
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Ali, 12, “spent the whole night digging sand berms” to keep out the water.
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Winter strikes with a vengeance
Nearly 2 million people have been forcibly displaced in Gaza and 1.3 million are without adequate shelter as the cold bites.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/winter-strikes-vengeance/51162
24 days ago
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Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain's war industry
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24 days ago
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“The goal is clear. It is about taking over Palestinian resources and cutting off residents from their lands, in order to seize and annex these areas for the benefit of illegal settlers.”
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New wall threatens thousands of Palestinian families
The Israeli military has begun the first stretch of a $1.7 billion project to build a wall running from the occupied Golan Heights to Eilat, slicing through the occupied West Bank.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/new-wall-threatens-thousands-palestinian-families/51164
26 days ago
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This is an elderly man with a heart condition. There is no conceivable reason for Israel to continue to hold him.
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Detained but disappeared
No information offered about Awad Nofal, a father of seven with a heart condition who was captured by Israeli forces in January 2024.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/detained-disappeared/51160
27 days ago
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Israel hinders efforts to determine fate of Gaza’s disappeared |
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Fate of Gaza’s disappeared remains unknown
Israel refuses to disclose the number of people it has abducted, bodies it still holds or has bundled into mass graves.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/fate-gazas-disappeared-remains-unknown/51157
27 days ago
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“Gaza needs engineers.”
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Going back to Gaza's broken universities
The author narrates her journey accompanying her sister to register at university.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/going-back-gazas-broken-universities/51150
about 1 month ago
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Court in Zurich rules EI editor's detention was illegal, violated Swiss constitution and European Convention on Human Rights.
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Swiss court rules Ali Abunimah detention was illegal
Zurich authorities violated the Swiss constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/swiss-court-rules-ali-abunimah-detention-was-illegal
about 1 month ago
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The BBC will give answers alright, just not always the truthful ones.
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BBC's pro-Israel training is nothing new
I took the BBC's Palestine training course in 2006.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/bbcs-pro-israel-training-nothing-new/51148
about 1 month ago
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Book review: An exposé on how corporate media distorted, lied and incited a genocide, even as it was being livestreamed for all to bear witness.
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Bearing witness to the gruesome end of Western liberalism
Corporate journalism skewered in Omar El Akkad's award-winning book on Gaza genocide.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/bearing-witness-gruesome-end-western-liberalism/51136
about 1 month ago
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People in Gaza were deprived of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, but nothing hurt more than seeing al-Omari Mosque fall.
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Israel wreaked havoc on Gaza landmarks
Churches, mosques and markets have all been targeted during the genocide.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-wreaked-havoc-gaza-landmarks/51138
about 1 month ago
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We say "fuck Israel" at all our shows -- Kneecap rapper
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We say "fuck Israel" at all our shows -- Kneecap rapper
Móglaí Bap believes that small acts of solidarity can have a huge impact.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/we-say-fuck-israel-all-our-shows-kneecap-rapper/51134
about 2 months ago
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Israel dictates the pace of Gaza’s decay. This is not a failure of the ceasefire-that-is-not-a-ceasefire. It is its essence.
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Two months on, ceasefire feels like siege
For most families, “returning home” means pitching tents beside the ruins of their houses.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/two-months-ceasefire-feels-siege/51123
about 2 months ago
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"Despite damning evidence of war crimes committed by Israel, Jodie Ginsberg's clever capping of what CPJ can do or say on Gaza is effectively dissipating our evidentiary power which could easily be admissible evidence before the ICC."
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Is Committee to Protect Journalists scared of its pro-Israel donors?
Annual awards ceremony brings in big money from Murdoch-owned media.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/committee-protect-journalists-scared-its-pro-israel-donors/51122
about 2 months ago
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Fishers have little choice but to “continue risking their lives just to put food on the table.”
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Gaza’s fishers tempt fate to feed the hungry
Gaza’s fishing sector, once a crucial source of livelihoods, is operating at just 7.3 percent of its pre-genocide capacity.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/gazas-fishers-tempt-fate-feed-hungry/51114
about 2 months ago
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Israel blends ethnic cleansing and human trafficking | Jared Sacks
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Israel blends ethnic cleansing and human trafficking
South Africa has taken the wrong decision by withdrawing visa exemptions from Palestinians.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-blends-ethnic-cleansing-and-human-trafficking/51113
about 2 months ago
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Von der Leyen and Blair still want to boss Palestinians around
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2 months ago
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Refaat showed me how brave Gaza City was, as well as how funny its people were, despite decades of war, isolation and imprisonment.
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Refaat Alareer and the online culture war
Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
https://electronicintifada.net/content/refaat-alareer-and-online-culture-war/51100
2 months ago
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“We realize that, as Palestinian journalists, we are directly targeted because we convey a message that challenges the stereotypes perpetuated by the Israeli media.”
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West Bank journalists persevere to be the “voice of our people”
Israel has aggressively moved to further fragment the occupied West Bank. Caught between the military, settlers and a hostile PA, reporters feel the brunt.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/west-bank-journalists-persevere-be-voice-our-people/51101
2 months ago
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Since my brothers were released, they always ask us to pray for the thousands of prisoners still suffering in Israeli detention.
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Two brothers tell tales from detention
My brothers were detained from a checkpoint and subjected to months of torture and ill-treatment without ever being classified as prisoners.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/two-brothers-tell-tales-detention/51093
2 months ago
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“Bahjat took the shell instead of me. He stood between me and death. He saved me, but at the cost of his life.”
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A tribute to Captain Bahjat
Bahjat Tantish was a pillar of Palestine’s sports community, an inspiring karate coach, a policeman and a farmer.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/tribute-captain-bahjat/51089
2 months ago
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Israel stands to benefit from EU weapons funding
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2 months ago
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“We can’t find a bed to put a patient on. We can’t move people out because they have no homes to go to.”
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What to expect when needing surgery during genocide
My operation was routine, but the crowds, the constant danger and the lack of medicine and food made every day a test.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/what-expect-when-needing-surgery-during-genocide/51088
2 months ago
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“UN Resolution 2803 puts Gaza in the hands of a puppet administration, with the US as the new manager of an open-air prison, further crushing Palestine's right to self-determination and any path to peace.”
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The US bulldozed the prospect of Uniting for Peace in Palestine
UN endorsement of Trump plan a “colonial outrage” that will ultimately implode.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/us-bulldozed-prospect-uniting-peace-palestine/51087
2 months ago
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Judge in Palestine Action case worked for pro-Israel law firm
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Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Victoria Sharp worked for Robert Maxwell and her twin brother sits on charity board with Trevor Chinn.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/judge-palestine-action-case-has-ties-israel-lobby/51085
2 months ago
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“The wife of my husband's brother gave birth five times before and never had a miscarriage,” Elmrany, a midwife, said. “In this war, she miscarried.”
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Pregnant women in Gaza face catastrophic scenarios
Israel’s 200,000 tonnes of explosives will continue to harm Gaza’s next generation.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/pregnant-women-gaza-face-catastrophic-scenarios/51072
2 months ago
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The yellow line does not seem like a temporary measure and people fear it hardening into a permanent scar.
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Trapped by yellow
The US-brokered ceasefire plan has divided Gaza with a deadly boundary.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/trapped-yellow/51071
3 months ago
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Eman may still have been alive even after Israel bombed her house.
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Israel killed their four children
Muhammad and Amal tell their story.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-killed-their-four-children/51061
3 months ago
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“I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible.”
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Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”
Sean Middlebrough says he and fellow Palestine Action activists were “kidnapped” by British counter-terrorism police at the point of a gun.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/exclusive-absconded-activist-refuses-be-prisoner-war/51056
3 months ago
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In Gaza, we all want this ceasefire to hold, to save what remains of our home. Still, it does not take a genius to see that the ceasefire plan is nothing but a grotesque charade.
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No end to genocide
The ceasefire agreement simply means that Israel is able to do whatever it wants.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/no-end-genocide/51046
3 months ago
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The failure to secure all evidence gives rise to the disruptive notion, true or false, that to Dutch authorities Dutch Muslims matter less than Israeli Jews.
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How CCTV footage of Maccabi riots in Amsterdam went missing
Dutch authorities have tried to explain why two criminal cases involving Israeli football hooligans were dismissed from prosecution. Their statements are inconsistent, contradictory and incomplete.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-cctv-footage-maccabi-riots-amsterdam-went-missing/51047
3 months ago
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Ireland teams up with agency promoting Israel's drones
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3 months ago
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Fares was devoted to his baby daughter, then Israel killed him | Eman Alastal writing from Gaza
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Fares was devoted to his baby daughter, then Israel killed him
Razan was named after her grandmother, who died of starvation.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/fares-was-devoted-his-baby-daughter-then-israel-killed-him/51028
3 months ago
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Israel has not only proven perfectly happy to break ceasefires at will, it will also be smarting from what cannot be described as anything other than a defeat.
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Will it hold?
New US rhetoric, but same Israel.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/will-it-hold/51022
4 months ago
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Child rights champion promotes German-Israeli arms trade
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4 months ago
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Somewhere deep inside, a fragile hope began to take shape. Maybe this time the shelling would stop, maybe this time the sky would stay quiet.
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Displacement begins with a scissor’s cut
On the walk south, the author confronts memory, loss and the reality of an irreparable break with the past.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/displacement-begins-scissors-cut/51013
4 months ago
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We began to walk – my family, my relatives, 31 people in all. There were no streets left, no standing houses, only rubble. So we bade farewell to the ruins, ruins that once had been homes filled with life.
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Nothing to return to
The author and her relatives took a long hard road south just before the latest ceasefire was announced.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/nothing-return/51012
4 months ago
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Ireland must not be intimidated by Britain's stance on Palestine
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4 months ago
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The pressure is working. The grounds for divestment are indisputable. Divestment is an inevitable reality.
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Balfour’s university skirts demands it end entanglement in Gaza genocide
A knife attack at a student protest at the University of Edinburgh reveals much about institutional hypocrisy.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/balfours-university-skirts-demands-it-end-entanglement-gaza-genocide/51001
4 months ago
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