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“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them…Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being...
Life in Occupied Palestine 1 min
Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American, gives her eyewitness perspectives on average citizens living in occupied Palestine. Baltzer spent 5 months in the West Bank working with the International Women's Peace Service. Her presentation highlights how the Israeli government's policies...
On 9 November, to mark the anniversary o
This article from May, 2010 should haunt the world. - Spread Knowledge
If Israel insists, as the Bosnian Serbs did in Sarajevo, on using the weapons of industrial warfare against a helpless civilian population then that population has an inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. The international community...
Palestine Is Still The Issue 53 min
In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and...
Palestinian Performance Poet Speaks Powerful Truth to Power: 'We Teach Life, Sir' 4 min
Rafeef Ziadah, a Canadian-Palestinian spoken word artist and activist, performs a poem in response to a journalists who asks "don't you think it would all be better if you just stop teaching your children to hate".
Palestinian Home Demolitions for Illegal Settlements Surging 24 min
The demolition of Palestinian homes for Israeli settlements reached a ten-year high in 2016. While this activity led by the fanatical settler movement is illegal under international law, it is completely aided and abetted by the Israeli government.  With hundreds on notice...
Palestinian Activist: Stop the Anti-Semitism in My Name 2 min
Palestinian-American student Yasmeen Serhan speaks up against bigotry. She also has a message for Israel supporters: Why are you still wondering where the Palestinians are who condemn this behavior? Don't discount us just because you don't agree with everything we say.
Palestinians Rejected Every Peace Offer — An Outright Lie 36 min
The myth that “Palestinians always reject peace” has been a pernicious lie used to delegitimize their struggle for decades. In reality, Palestinians have never been offered a just peace—yet they’ve repeatedly chosen to compromise. Still, they’re blamed for the continued...
Palestinian Christian Exposes Israeli Lies And Atrocities 43 min
Hammam Farah is a Palestinian Christian based in Toronto - and right now, he faces unimaginable horrors. His family are sheltering in the besieged Holy Church in Gaza - and his relatives have been brutally killed by Israel's onslaught.
Numerous filmmakers used the Berlinale platform in Germany to speak out against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. That only highlighted the cowardice of those who chose not to. Their excuses do not hold up.
Palestinian Rights Groups File Genocide Lawsuit against Biden and Two of His Cabinet Members 3 min
President Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members are being sued for complicity in genocide, in Gaza. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of several groups including American citizens with relatives in Gaza. It aims to stop the US military from sending funding to Israel. Al...
Palestinian Destroys Gaza Media Coverage 14 min
Israel killed 21 members of Ahmed Alnaoulq's family. He doesn’t hold back.
These graphics are all from Visualizing Palestine, a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about the occupied region. Check out many more of these images on their site
South Africa, a former apartheid state, has been vocal in its support for the Palestinian cause against the over 50-year-old Israeli occupation.
No words can describe the anger and anguish I feel as a Palestinian in America watching this unfold.
Ashraf Fayadh was sentenced to death for apostasy, joining a long list of dissidents facing capital punishment
As Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable suffering at the hands of Israelis, there are some old bromides that are constantly being hurled at an unsuspecting public by elected U.S. officials, in order to justify U.S. financing of that suffering. Let us look at just a...
Dear Secretary Clinton:
The UK Parliament voted in a landslide 274-12 on the evening of Monday 13th October to unilaterally recognise the state of Palestine.
On 16 November 2023, The Elders delivered an open letter to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Israel and Palestine.
There are two dates ingrained in the memory of the Palestinian people. The first is May 15, 1948, the date which marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians and the destruction of their towns and villages by Zionist Jewish militias. A day before, the state of Israel was...
Pope Francis’ September 2015 visit to the US will doubtless reinforce his reach to the new audiences he has attracted beyond the Catholic Church with his strong positions on such issues as the environment, poverty, migrants – and Palestinian rights to freedom and...
The Palestinian Horror Story The Media Hides From You 11 min
"I just want to wake up from this nightmare"
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Tests Military Tech on Palestinians 96 min
Uncovering how Israel profits from surveillance technologies using occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground.
The Palestinian Genocide: the Ultimate Evidence 18 min
Former UNRWA Chief spokesman Chris Gunness Powerful Speech to the UN
Inside Occupied Palestine 89 min
Two Veterans For Peace activists and an activist former Israeli Air Force Blackhawk pilot describe, and illustrate with dramatic photos, the impossible situation of the Palestinians living under the Israeli occupation. The pilot says : "I'm an Israeli, I'm ex-military, so I...
Silencing Palestine - Prison & Repression 23 min
Israel’s occupation of the West Bank is an internationally-recognized human rights crime—but those being impacted are harshly punished for not only acts of resistance, but even mere advocacy for their rights. Getting detailed facts about Israel’s imposition of Military Law...
As we watch in horror as violence in Israel and Palestine escalates and there continues to be needless and senseless killings, we offer a prayer of love, compassion and strength.
I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated Like This 3 min
The story shared by Israel and Palestine has been told in several stunning films, but I don't think I've ever seen it told like this.
No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of cyclical violence has made understanding the roots of this conflict (not to mention...
Rap News 24: Israel vs Palestine 8 min
Decades of failed peace talks have led nowhere. But do not lose hope just yet: join Robert Foster as he attempts to host the first ever Middle East Peace Raps, using rhyme and reason to bring together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, and a representative of...
Freedom for Palestine: #GazaNames Project 3 min
Prominent Jews and Palestinians and others stand for Palestine in this heartbreaking video with Jonathan Demme, Gloria Steinem, Tony Kushner, Diana Buttu, Chuck D, Eve Ensler, Brian Eno, Roger Waters, Mira Nair, Wallace Shawn, Naomi Klein, Mira Nair, Raj Patel, Noura Eraket...
"While this shows one individual soldier's act, it is made possible by criminal orders from the top that authorized use of lethal force against unarmed protesters that has resulted in hundreds being shot."
Israelis Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians 24 min
On the streets of Jerusalem, Abby Martin interviews Jewish Israeli citizens from all walks of life. In several candid interviews, disturbing comments reveal commonly-held views about Palestinians and their future in the region.
The Untold History of Palestine & Israel 22 min
Previewing Abby Martin’s on-the-ground investigation in Palestine, The Empire Files looks at the long history of Zionist colonization, expansion and expulsion of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: a Brief, Simple History 10 min
The conflict is really only 100 years old, and it's not really about religion.
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley 18 min
Ideas aren't good or bad because of what licenses people slap on them. Just relate to the ideas themselves.
In U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking Palestinian State 18 min
As U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announces plans to set up an investigation into the attacks on United Nations facilities during Israel's recent assault on the Gaza Strip, we broadcast the speech of world-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky, who recently spoke in...
Chomsky vs Dershowitz:  Debate on Israel/Palestine 86 min
A debate between Noam Chomsky and Alan Dershowtiz on the question, "Israel and Palestine After Disengagement: Where Do We Go From Here?"  They faced off at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in November of 2005.
Seeing Through The Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel 57 min
In 2016, Rabbi Dov Taylor invited a group of Americans to join him on a tour of Israel and Palestine. This 12-day excursion was not planned as a sight-seeing tour, though there were plenty of sights to see. Rather, the purpose was to introduce tour members to Palestinians...
Israel’s military assault on Gaza has so far killed over 200 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,500. Nearly 80% of these casualties have been civilians. One Israeli has been killed by a mortar shell from Hamas rocket attacks, along with 20 wounded.
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 80 min
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Israeli Jew Stabbed by Man Who Mistook Him for a Palestinian Calls for Peace 1 min
Uri Rezken was stabbed in the back by a man who mistook him for Palestinian. Now, Uri's calling for peace.
Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories 70 min
#1 Most scholars agree that the beginning of today’s struggle was the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs by the Israeli military in 1948, which the Palestinians call “The Nakba”, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic.
Free Palestine - Support The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement 4 min
This summer Israel launched its bloodiest ever massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza strip. More than 2,190 Palestinians were killed as Israel deliberately targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure. But 2014 also saw unprecedented levels of solidarity with the Palestinian...
Earth, Stories Of A Pale Blue Dot 2 min
Emerging from the echoes and end-game of a dualistic ego-driven world, we find ourselves once again with the opportunity to reflect on the past and change our planetary future into a whole new positive, conscious and peaceful paradigm. The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of...
50 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine 5 min
It has been 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War, which resulted in Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza and the Syrian Golan Heights.
Ferguson Activists Bring Message of Love and Struggle to Palestine 10 min
A group of activists, artists, musicians and journalists on the frontlines of the struggle against racist policing in the United States traveled to Palestine earlier this month to build on the growing bonds of solidarity
A Lighthouse for Gaza | Envisioning Peace in Israel-Palestine 13 min
From June 21st-23rd, a group of 50 Israelis, Palestinians and internationals gathered at the “Lighthouse”, between kibbutz Be’eri and the border of Gaza, to envision the possibility of change in the Middle East.
Israel To Demolish Palestinian Village Of Susiya 2 min
The Palestinian village of Susiya is about to bulldozed after Israel's high court recently rejected an injunction to stop the demolition. People have been fighting the demolition for decades.
The Distortion & Death Behind Israel/Palestine Coverage 25 min
A crisis in Palestine is again all over the headlines. From stabbings and molotov cocktails, to killing of protesters and anti-Arab lynch mobs--how much of the mass media coverage can we really trust? Abby Martin takes a look at how the so-called "Israel-Palestine conflict"...
Love Israel, Support Palestine: Former Israeli Soldier Exposes IDF War Crimes 33 min
There's a contradiction inherent in how Israel reckons with its atrocities against Palestinians. On one hand Israel's leaders and their supporters call for the genocide of Palestinians, such as this past weekend when Israel's Defense Minister announced a blockade of Gaza...
How YOU Can Help Stop Israel's Carnage In Gaza - And Support Palestinian Liberation 38 min
Many of you feel you have watched the horror of Israel's onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza and felt fury and grief - but helplessness. You may have participated in large demos, tweeted about it, peacefully occupied a train station, yelled at your computer screens and...
Kyle REACTS To Horrifying Deranged Israel & Palestine Takes | The Kyle Kulinski Show 28 min
May cooler heads prevail. There are people who have lost their damn minds on both sides of this tragedy.
When I See Them I See Us: Black-Palestinian Solidarity 3 min
Over 60 leading Black and Palestinian artists and activists affirm Black-Palestinian solidarity in our new video. Featuring Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erakat, Annemarie Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornel West, and many...
The Hidden History of Israel: Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim meets Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi 48 min
Avi Shlaim served in the IDF. Ghada Karmi fled the Nakba. Two exiles, one history
Dreams Deferred: The Struggle for Peace and Justice in Israel and Palestine 68 min
Travel to Israel and the West Bank to learn about the occupation and the nonviolent Israeli and Palestinian peace and justice movement that has received little coverage in mainstream U.S. media.
The Israel Palestine 'Conflict' in Under 10 minutes 10 min
Lowkey delivers a short history lesson.
DEBUNKED: Where Is Palestine’s MLK? 10 min
Abby Martin discusses how Palestinians are killed by the Israeli army regardless of whether they protest non-violently, recounting the non-violent Great March of Return protests that took place between 2018–2019, where over 223 Palestinians, including medics and journalists...
Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech 185 min
Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS & Pro-Palestinian Speech, a panel featuring Cornel West, Linda Sarsour, Shaun King, Omar Barghouti, Tim Wise, and Dima Khalidi, was held at the UMass-Amherst Fine Arts Center on Nov. 12, 2019 in front of a capacity crowd despite being...
Over the past two-plus decades, the Media Education Foundation has produced and distributed documentary films, and organized a series of high-profile events and talks, to counter U.S. media narratives that have dehumanized the Palestinian people.
The Real Truth About Palestine in Response to Danny Ayalon 6 min
In 2011, then Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon released an outrageous propaganda video called "The Truth About the West Bank". The video was anything but the truth: it denied the land was Palestinian and that it was occupied. Visualizing Palestine released this...
Bernie Sanders Talks Democrats, President Trump, Palestine and Syria 10 min
Senator Bernie Sanders unfiltered – in this AJ+ interview with Dena Takruri, he opens up about the Democratic Party, President Trump, Palestine and Syria.
Jewish Resistance to Germans Explains Palestine Right Now 6 min
How does the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Germans teach us about what's happening in Palestine today?
Shocking Evidence Israel Plots Mass Expulsion of Palestinians 9 min
We are running out of time to stop this. - Owen Jones
Congress’s Witch Hunt Against Palestine Flips Reality: Students Are Trying to Stop a Genocide 60 min
The U.S. Congress and elite colleges and universities are flipping reality upside down. Students are protesting to stop a genocide against Palestinians, but are accused of promoting one against Jewish people.
'No Evidence' For Israel's Claims Against UN Palestinian Agency, UNRWA 14 min
Remember how Israel's claims that staff at UNRWA - Gaza's main humanitarian agency - were involved in 7th October attacks drove the ICJ ruling from the headlines, and led to Western countries cancelling funds? Those claims are falling apart. Journalists who've seen Israel's...
I'm Being CENSORED By Facebook Over Palestine | Owen Jones 11 min
Human Rights Watch have just done an in-depth report about how Meta is censoring pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram. Here I show that I've been 'shadowbanned' on Facebook - and why this is part of a general attempt to silence the few pro-Palestinian voices with...
Noam Chomsky: How Will Palestinians Attain Freedom? 5 min
Noam Chomsky on How will Palestinians attain freedom? How will Palestinians achieve freedom from Israel? #noamchomsky
From The River To The Sea: The Story Behind Palestine's Fight For Freedom 14 min
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"Amid all this insanity, we are deeply moved by and thankful for all Israelis and Palestinians who remain committed to nonviolence, even now that another violent chapter is opened. True courage lies in breaking the cycle of trauma, in refusing revenge, in loving in spite of...
What Should Palestine Do? An MLK Quote Says It All 6 min
"Try to win a battle just with the moral high-ground. It's not practical. It's not realistic." Here Cenk Uygur quotes MLK Jr's response.
"No Innocent Palestinians?" Here's Why This Rhetoric Is So Dangerous. And Wrong. 21 min
"Comparing a state or people with Nazi Germany has a powerful and compelling effect on many people. It achieves the goal of dehumanizing an entire civilian population."
The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone attacks on a variety of targets from tanks to automated machine gun nests, are the familiar language of the...
Eight-month-old Laila is youngest Palestinian killed in Gaza on Monday, the deadliest day since 2014 war.
We all know the stigma, but we cannot remain silent Growing up in the United Kingdom in an agnostic family that had Jewish and Christian members, I was free to have an opinion about the continual clashes between Israel and Palestine. It reminded me of Britain’s relationship...
THIS MORNING Israel ended an effective truce with armed groups in Gaza, and carried out the extrajudicial execution of Ahmed al-Jabari, the commander of the military wing of Hamas.
THEY SAY WHEN all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But when you are a politician and all you have is a hammer, you must convince voters every problem looks like a nail. This is the only thinking that can explain Israel's behavior in escalating bombardment...
Israel’s message, on the eve of a ground invasion, is clear. Leave Gaza or Die.
To characterize Israeli violence as a “response” is to wrongly imply that Palestinian actions warranted Israel unleashing its firing squads.
Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.
Brave Israeli Soldier Speaks Out On BBC Against the Crimes of His Government 5 min
Brave Israeli Soldier, Yonatan Shapira, speaks out about the crimes of his government on BCC news. Read the blog "The Dark History of Modern Day Zionism" for more context on what he is speaking about below:
Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas 7 min
Did you also know that Hamas would probably not exist today were it not for Israel's indirect support? That the Israelis helped turn a bunch of fringe Palestinian Islamists in the late 1970s into one of the world’s most notorious militant groups? That Hamas is blowback?
The structure of Israeli governance is embodied with discrimination against Palestinian citizens.
The one change will be that hardliners on all sides will have gained support—with no lessons learned—thus sowing the seeds for another round of violence.
The Dangerous Rise of Israeli Ultra-Nationalists 12 min
Before the tragic and unprecedented loss of life in 2023,  2022 was the deadliest year in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in over a decade. Israel itself has been in the grips of political turmoil. The country has elected the most right-wing government in its...
Trauma runs through the narratives of both Israelis and Palestinians in the form of the Holocaust and the Nakba. But in order to rationalize their moral superiority, both sides actively deny the other’s suffering.
Budrus: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth 60 min
Budrus is an award-winning feature documentary film about a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites local Fatah and Hamas members along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction by Israel’s Separation Barrier.
The Gaza Bombardment - What You're Not Being Told 9 min
The corporate media isn't just distorting the facts on the Gaza assault, they're flat out covering them up.
Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here’s what you need to know about these talking points and more. Israel has killed upwards of 1500 Palestinians in the past three weeks. The UN estimates that more than...
Empirical historical evidence combined with a little common-sense are enough to tell us the type of future options that Israel has in store for the Palestinian people: perpetual Apartheid or ethnic cleansing, or a mix of both. The passing of the 'Regularization Bill' on...
The only legitimate struggle for Palestinians, it seems, is keeping quiet, allowing their lands to be plundered and their children to be starved.
"While Israel has had a right-wing government for much of the last 25 years, the government that took power in late 2022 has become a fascist government with little respect for the history and judicial processes of a democratic society."
It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.
Seven decades on, Israel is geopolitically embattled and the Jewish community is increasingly polarized around the issue of occupation. The occupation – Israeli military control over the Palestinian West Bank and the borders of Gaza Strip – is five decades old. Entire...
Know Your Stuff: The Military Industrial Complex of Israel | Dr. Shir Hever 16 min
In this video Dr. Shir Hever talks about the history and evolution of the Israeli military industrial complex from the 1980s onwards until the modern era.
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