Blog

An extract from Amnon Kapeliouk's Not By Omission.

Western media's double standard for Israel and Palestine demands that Palestinians and their allies surrender to the logic of Israeli occupation. Shadi Chalesh writes of the importance of resisting and delegitimizing questions that demand Palestinian capitulation.

Under Israeli blockade since 2007, Gaza is the world's largest open air prison. While major Western media outlets are painting Israel as the victim of a surprise attack, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy argues that Israel's ruthless imprisonment of 2 million Palestinians is to blame for the present violence.

In this excerpt from Ten Myths About Israel, Ilan Pappe takes on the myth that Palestine was an empty land.

The new oil companies of the late 19th century found themselves competing across countries and continents, and had to look to ‘methods of sabotage’ to solve the problem.