The Israeli military has begun a massive assault on the Gaza Strip. As of Thursday night, May 13, 109 Palestinians have reportedly been killed, including 28 children. A further 621 are wounded. Hosts Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear cover the atrocities that Israelis are committing against Palestinians and the unified fightback across Palestine, with experts […]
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As escalations continue across Israel-Palestine, from Israel bombing Gaza to Palestinian factions in Gaza launching rockets into Israel and the Israeli security apparatus escalating across the West Bank and even against Palestinian citizens of Israel protesting in their cities, to help make sense of all of it, Rania Khalek is joined by journalist and author […]
Ongoing Israeli airstrikes have reportedly killed 30 people so far in Gaza, ten of them children. So far, three Israeli citizen has been killed by Hamas rocket fire. This latest escalation follows Israeli forces storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday for a third consecutive day, firing rubber-coated steel bullets and setting off stun grenades […]
As Israeli violence against Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem heats up amid looming evictions of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah and Israeli police storming the al Aqsa mosque, Rania Khalek is joined by investigative journalist David Sheen from Haifa for insight into the Israeli side of the equation. Israeli Jewish extremism has been on the […]
What the hell is going on in Jerusalem? Has Israel totally lost it? Is this the beginning of a third intifada? Rania Khalek is joined by Ramallah-based activist Hadeel Shatara, coordinator of the Palestinian prisoner rights group Samidoun, to discuss Israeli violence in Sheikh Jarrah and Al Aqsa mosque, what’s driving Palestinian resistance, internal Palestinian […]
As Israel begins bombing Gaza, keep in mind that Israel uses each new war as an opportunity to test and advertise its weapons. War is always a racket pic.twitter.com/epTKHHf8Ms — Rania Khalek (@RaniaKhalek) March 25, 2019
The US military has adopted an Israeli procedure known as “roof-knocking” in its war on Islamic State, also known as ISIS or Daesh, adding yet another failed Israeli tactic to its counterterrorism toolkit. Roof-knocking entails striking the roof or upper story of a home or building with a mortar shell or missile prior to bombing […]
Crossposted from The Electronic Intifada During Thursday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders did something that no major candidate in recent memory has dared to do. Defying the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus that dominates American politics, Sanders forcefully defended the humanity of Palestinians and delivered perhaps the most blistering indictment against Israel’s right-wing government ever uttered […]
With the presidential race heating up ahead of the New York primary, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has joined right-wing proponents of Israeli violence in attacking Bernie Sanders for his criticism of Israel’s 2014 military assault on Gaza. In an interview with the New York Daily News editorial board last week, Sanders qualified Israel’s attack on Gaza as “indiscriminate” and emphasized that “a lot […]
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