Israel has been targetting journalists for many, many years – Peter It has often been described as a stalemate this week — this war that is now primarily centred on the Strait of Hormuz. Not even the financial markets seemed to react much to the latest presidential decrees this week, which seem to bear little connection to unfolding events. This was even though, slowly but surely, the military confrontations in the strait have been escalating, with both sides striking, or seizing, each other’s assets. And the

    Politics and the Pope       by Jonathan Kuttab President Trump, followed later by some of his supporters, criticized the Pope for speaking out against the war in Iran and Lebanon. They urged the Pope to “stay in his lane,” arguing that politics and religion do not mix and that he should stick to “religious” issues. Of course, much of this criticism is deeply hypocritical. These same people do not object to mixing politics and religion when it serves their interests but they

Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages The level of evil in Israeli’s is beyond understanding – Peter Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say. Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence.

Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes It is so sad that evil is alive and working even in a Rabbi – sadly he is not the only Rabbi that actively works for Genocide – Peter An extremist rabbi known for razing civilian homes in Gaza will light a torch at Israel’s independence day celebration on Tuesday, a role human rights campaigners said marked the embrace of genocide as the official “spirit of the nation”. Avraham Zarbiv is one

It will only get money if it makes money for Trump and Netanyahu – Peter Once a place for families to play and relax, Gaza’s coastlines are now crowded with makeshift tents. And as springtime temperatures rise, thousands of displaced Palestinians are now dealing with a surge of rats, fleas and other pests. “My children have been bitten. One of my sons was even bitten on the nose,” Muhammad al-Raqab, a Palestinian man living in a tent near the southern city of Khan Yunis, told AFP

April 13th marked Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time when people around the world honor the sacred memory of the six million Jews, along with millions of Roma and Sinti, people of Slavic and Polish descent, persons with disabilities, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah’s Witnesses, those persecuted for their sexual orientation, and countless other innocent victims who were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime and its allies. God of compassion and justice, we lift up the families of all Holocaust survivors and remember that genocide is a structural sin that

Lets hope so – Peter Orbán gone and Meloni distancing herself, EU sanctions on trade and settlers are looking more likely Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem, Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo, Ashifa Kassam in Budapest and Deborah Cole in BerlinSun 19 Apr 2026 12.36 BSTShare Prefer the Guardian on Google It was a bad week for Israel in Europe: the country lost its staunchest regional ally when Viktor Orbán was toppled from power in Hungary, and Italy suspended a key defence pact. The shifts are likely to pave the way for long-delayed sanctions against violent settlers

In his first interview since returning from Gaza, David McIntosh says he witnessed Israeli soldiers firing open fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking aid. The evil of Israel continues every day – Peter On September 25, 2025, David McIntosh filed a report to his bosses at Safe Reach Solutions (SRS) detailing an account of Israeli soldiers gunning down a young Palestinian boy as he was getting food at a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “There’s no way he survived,” McIntosh told Drop Site

Israel’s far-right national ‌security minister storms the mosque compound under the protection of settlers, drawing condemnation from Palestinians. This evil man has no shame – Peter Israel’s far-right National ‌Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ⁠in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old ⁠City – his third incursion into Islam’s third holiest site this year – as Israel arrested at least 18 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. Accompanied by Israeli settlers under heavy protection from Israeli forces, Ben-Gvir offered Jewish prayers at

Apr 13, 2026 | Media Releases, PalestineMonday 13 April 2026 Good luck with getting any honesty about this – Peter Palestinian human rights organisations have launched legal action against the Minister for Defence, seeking the release of documents to determine if the Australian government has permitted arms exports to Israel during ongoing grave violations of international law in the unlawfully Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).  On 8 April 2026, three leading human rights groups based in Palestine: Al-Haq; Al Mezan Center for Human Rights; and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights,