Articles by The Electronic Intifada
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Palestine in Pictures: June 2026
The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2026
10 Jul 2026 – At least 122 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip during the month of June. Between 3 and 30 June, 115 Palestinians were killed in Gaza or died from injuries sustained previously. Five bodies were recovered from the rubble and more than 500 people were injured.
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Winter Strikes Gaza with a Vengeance
Fedaa al-Qedra | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2026
17 Jan 2026 – In a tent flooded with water and torn by the wind in Khan Younis, Iyad Abu Jamea, 49, is trying to support his and his son’s family, 14 people, as displaced families face the bitter winter cold with no proper shelter, while rain and sewage flood their homes, creating harsh and unsanitary living conditions.
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In Gaza You Can Choose Only Humiliation or Death
Malak Hijazi | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
17 Jun 2025 – Israel has been starving us for months. It cut off all aid to Gaza in March, only to recently approve a US-led, militarized aid site run by the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.” The consequences are not abstract – they are visceral, immediate and devastating.
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NY Times Killed Investigation of Israeli Hooligans, Internal Email Reveals
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – The NYT has killed an investigation into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam. Journalist Triebert wanted to set the record straight regarding the false narrative advanced by his newspaper – that the Israeli fans were victims of mob violence motivated by anti-Jewish hatred.
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“Today We Are Nazis,” Says Member of Israeli Jewish Extremist Group
Ali Abunimah and Tamara Nassar | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
19 May 2021 – Israeli Jewish extremists used instant messaging services to organize armed militias to attack Palestinian citizens of Israel. “We are no longer Jews today,” one user wrote in a Telegram group titled “People from Holon, Bat Yam and Rishon Lezion go out to bring war.” “Today we are Nazis.” “No one in the authorities could claim that they did not know,” HaBloc said.
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Israel Kills Children, Doctors in Horrific Nighttime Massacre
Tamara Nassar | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 May 2021
Israel in the early hours of Sunday [16 May 2021]—around 1 am–obliterated multiple generations of families when it bombed their homes in Gaza firing 50 missiles. Two prominent doctors were among the dead. This has raised the death toll in Gaza since Israel’s bombing campaign began on 10 May to 192, including 58 children and 34 women. More than 1,200 people have been injured as of 17 May.
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15 Lessons from 15 Years of BDS
Alys Samson Estapé | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2020
29 Jul 2020 – July marked the 15th anniversary of the launch of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Much has happened over those years. Here are 15 lessons I’ve learned on the journey to dismantle Israeli apartheid.
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Israel Is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
4 Jul 2018 – Israeli arms are being sent to a heavily armed neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine. Azov Battalion online propaganda shows Israeli-licensed Tavor rifles in the fascist group’s hands. Amid an alarming rise in anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism, Israel now appears to be reprising this role in Eastern Europe.
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Maureen Clare Murphy | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2017
26 Oct 2017 – Abuse of child detainees part of wider aim to encourage Palestinians to leave the city.
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Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2017
23 Oct 2017 – Myanmar has been showing off its new gunboats, confirming that Israel is supplying the country with weapons in spite of official secrecy. Amid ethnic cleansing of Rohingya, Israel envoy offers PR advice.
→ read full articlePoetry Steeped in Sarcasm and Politics
Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2017
19 Sep 2017 – “Prince of Poets” star Tamim Al-Barghouti’s first collection of work translated into English. The political side of his life often comes through in witty, sarcastic, bitter poems stating observations and allegories. – In Jerusalem and Other Poems, 1997-2017, Interlink Books (2017)
→ read full articleThe 50-Year Setback
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2017
The 1967 War had eerily similar effects to the Nakba (Arabic for catastrophe), the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Approximately 400,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were displaced 50 years ago this month. The events of 1967 have become known as the Naksa, or setback. The war lasted six days. By the time it ended, Israel had occupied the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt’s Sinai peninsula and Syria’s Golan Heights.
→ read full articleHunger Strike Ends, Prisoners Declare Victory
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2017
27 May 2017 – After 40 days without food, hundreds of Palestinian prisoners have suspended their hunger strike in Israeli jails. The end of the strike came after 20 hours of intense negotiations between the strike’s leaders, including imprisoned Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, and the Israel Prison Service, according to a statement issued Saturday [27 May] morning by the prisoners solidarity committee.
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Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2017
2 May 2017 – As Palestinian prisoners enter day 16 of their mass hunger strike, Israeli authorities are said to be obstructing negotiations and severely impeding communication from the strikers to the outside world. As many as 1,600 Palestinians are refusing food in protest of ill treatment by Israeli prison authorities, including medical neglect and reduction of family visits.
→ read full articleInside a Settler-Run Tour of an East Jerusalem Tourist Trap
Matt Broomfield | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2017
Visitors to so-called City of David treated to highly selective, ethnocentric version of history.
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Matt Kennard |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
The occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli weapons manufacturers’ laboratories, and Palestinians their subjects.
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Ilan Pappe |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2016
28 Sep 2016 – The obituaries for Shimon Peres have already appeared, no doubt prepared in advance as the news of his hospitalization reached the media. My guess is that very few of the obituaries will examine Peres’ life and activities from the perspective of the victims of Zionism and Israel.
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Clare Maxwell |The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2016
Approximately half of Israel’s environmental regulations do not apply in the occupied territory. With such lax legislation, companies producing metals, chemicals and plastics flock to settlement industrial zones. Both Israeli and international companies are drawn to areas where they can pollute more freely, often at the expense of surrounding Palestinian communities.
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Jillian C. York | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
2 Aug 2016 – The last year has seen an uptick in digital threats faced by individuals and organizations around the world. Over the past few months, there have been attacks on boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement websites, threatening emails to activists and new information emerging on Israel’s surveillance capabilities.
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Charlotte Silver | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2016
There’s no shortage of water, it’s just that Israel doesn’t let Palestinians access it.
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Sarah Irving | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2016
Although the Palestine Youth Orchestra has sprung from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, which has branches in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the orchestra’s members are spread across historic Palestine, including within the State of Israel. Indeed, two musicians were unable to join this tour, despite being scheduled to perform: from Gaza, they were denied exit by Israel.
→ read full articleGenocide Scholars Pull Out of Israel Conference
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
25 Jun 2016 – The vice-president of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, Univ. of Cape Town Prof. Mohamed Adhikari, has pulled out of the group’s conference at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. British genocide scholar Martin Shaw also announced he is pulling out. South Africa’s Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation also withdrew citing concerns about Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.
→ read full articleBDS Is Free Speech, Says Dutch Government
Michael Deas | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
25 May 2016 – The Netherlands has affirmed that activism calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel is a form of free speech. Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said that “statements or meetings concerning BDS are protected by freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, as enshrined in the Dutch constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights.”
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Kevin Squires | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2016
28 May 2016 – In another blow to the Israeli campaign to criminalize Palestine solidarity activism, the Irish government has affirmed that the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement represents a “legitimate” means of protest “intended to pressure Israel into ending the occupation.”
→ read full articleIsrael Imposes Travel Ban on BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti
Ali Abunimah | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2016
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said that “Israel’s refusal to renew Barghouti’s travel document appears to be an effort to punish him for exercising his right to engage in peaceful, political activism, using its arsenal of bureaucratic control over Palestinian lives.”
→ read full articleBrazil Cancels $2 Billion Contract with Israeli Security Firm for 2016 Olympics
Charlotte Silver – The Electronic Intifada,
18 May 2015
12 May 2015 – Brazil’s government has excluded an Israeli “security” company from working at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro following a campaign by Palestine solidarity activists who are now turning their focus to the Olympics Committee, which has named ISDS as an “official supplier” for the games.
→ read full articleWe Cannot Liberate Palestine with Colonized Minds
Haidar Eid - The Electronic Intifada,
11 May 2015
The inability — or unwillingness — of both the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority and the Hamas-led administration in Gaza to provide a relatively acceptable example of good governance based on giving ordinary people a say in decisions that affect them means that serious soul-searching is required among those holding leadership positions in Palestine.
→ read full articleDid Israel Lobby “Bullying and Threats” Push Univ. of Southampton to Cancel Conference?
Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada,
13 Apr 2015
2 Apr 2015 – Organizers of an academic conference on Israel are proceeding with an urgent legal challenge after the UK’s University of Southampton today confirmed that it has canceled the event. More than 900 academics from all over the world have signed on to a statement in support of the conference.
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Rania Khalek – The Electronic Intifada,
30 Mar 2015
Israel has supplied 60.7 percent of the world’s drones since 1985, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. In second place is the US with 23.9 percent. The besieged Gaza Strip has served as the leading testing ground for both armed and surveillance drones.
→ read full articleBook Review: Excavating Palestine’s “Hidden Histories”
Marcy Newman - The Electronic Intifada,
23 Mar 2015
The layers of colonization in Palestine run as deep as the layers of the country’s mythologized and distorted history. This emanates from many sources and continues to be perpetuated by academics whose methodologies maintain this phenomenon.
→ read full articleUnder Cover of Reconstruction, UN and PA Become Enforcers of Israel’s Gaza Siege
Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada,
20 Oct 2014
17 Oct 2014 – The UN has agreed to become the chief enforcer of Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza. Under the guise of reconstruction, the UN will be monitoring and gathering private information about Palestinian households to be passed onto Israel, which will have a veto over which families get aid to rebuild their homes. Truly revolting.
→ read full articleThe Side of Jerusalem the New York Times Ignores
Jalal Abukhater – The Electronic Intifada,
11 Aug 2014
4 Aug 2014 – I found the idea of watching a “day in the life” in such a bubble of privilege absolutely revolting. Jewish-Americans live comfortably in Jerusalem, while the city is made a living hell for us Palestinian “residents.”
→ read full articleIsrael’s Incremental Genocide in the Gaza Ghetto
Ilan Pappe - The Electronic Intifada,
21 Jul 2014
Cessation of the incremental genocide in Gaza and the restitution of the basic human and civil rights of Palestinians wherever they are, including the right of return, is the only way to open a new vista for a productive international intervention in the Middle East as a whole.
→ read full articleWhen Israeli Denial of Palestinian Existence Becomes Genocidal
Ilan Pappe – The Electronic Intifada,
6 May 2013
One would think only a madman can ignore 6 million of people, many of them under his military or apartheid rule while he actively and ruthlessly disallows the return of the rest [5.5 million] to their homeland. But when the madman [President Shimon Peres] receives the best weapons from the US, Nobel Peace Prizes from Oslo and preferential treatment from the European Union, one wonders how seriously we should take their references to the leaders of Iran and North Korea as dangerous and lunatic?
→ read full articleHow The New York Times Erases Israel’s Crimes
Robert Ross, The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2013
The New York Times keeps the American public in the dark about the true nature of Israel’s occupation. According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.
→ read full articleNew Report Documents Systematic Abuse of Palestinian Children in Israeli Military Detention
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Apr 2012
The United Nations (UN) estimates that during the last 44 years, around 726,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been prosecuted and detained under Israeli emergency military laws. In the past 11 years alone, around 7,500 children, some as young as 12 years, are estimated to have been detained, interrogated, and imprisoned within this system. This averages out at between 500-700 children per year, or nearly two children, each and every day.
→ read full articleUK’s Student Body Endorses Divestment
Ben White – The Electronic Intifada,
9 Jan 2012
In a historic move, the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK has thrown its weight behind campaigns targeting companies complicit in Israel’s occupation and breaches of international law. In a similar move to the South African Anti-Apartheid movement, activists in Palestine – from Students’ Unions to LGBTQ organisations – have asked international supporters to refrain from supporting companies and institutions that profit from or maintain the occupation.
→ read full articleAt The UN, the Funeral of the Two-State Solution
Ilan Pappe - The Electronic Intifada,
19 Sep 2011
The charade will end in September or October — when the Palestinian Authority plans to submit its request for UN membership as a full member — in one of two ways. It could be either painful and violent, if Israel continues to enjoy international immunity and is allowed to finalize by sheer brutal force its mapping of post-Oslo Palestine. Or it could end in a revolutionary and much more peaceful way with the gradual replacement of the old fabrications with solid new truths…
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Norman Finkelstein – The Electronic Intifada,
3 May 2010
To preserve my sense of purpose, and keep the Palestine struggle from becoming a lifeless abstraction, I need periodically to recharge my moral batteries by reconnecting with the actual people living under occupation and by witnessing firsthand the unfolding tragedy.
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