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Duty of Anti-Racist Insolence: Support Saïdou and Saïd Bouamama by Young Communists and Alternative Libertaire Support Our Comrades Saïd Bouamama and Saïdou (Z.E.P.)! by Young Communists, Lille Section On 20 January 2015, our comrades Saïdou, of the band Z.E.P. (Zone d'Expression Populaire)...

Families and French Jewish community were asked to pay tens of thousands of shekels while burial site was changed three times; in the end, state will cover costs. Family members of Yoav Hattab, killed in an attack on a Paris grocery, before his funeral on January 13, 2015. / Photo by Reuters...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a ceremony at the Grand Synagogue in Paris, France, for all the victims of the attacks in Paris, January 11, 2015 [photo credit: AP/Matthieu Alexandre] During a closed meeting with the heads of France’s Jewish organizations...

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian girl from Nablus sustained wounds on Saturday night after a group of Israeli settlers hurled rocks at the car she was traveling in. Local sources said that 12-year-old Rua Hazim Sawalha was in a car just north of Ramallah near the Jewish-only settlement of Beit...

Journalists at Haaretz, the liberal Israeli newspaper, have received death threats after they published a cartoon juxtaposing the number of reporters killed by Israel while covering the Gaza war with those killed in the Charlie Hebdo attack. The cartoon is by Noa Olchowski and was one of many...

LOL, someone's so angry. Honestly, seek help. You're not a normal person. No need to murder - you have quieter, swifter ways to gag your critics. At least in the West, where accusing a writer or a cartoonist of antisemitism is as fast a way to have him permanently silenced as any: French...

It's even more embarrassing than Times of Israel explained it. Netanyahu didn't just invite himself in - he was actually asked by the French not to appear at the march, but he went anyway. Maybe it's him who should show "some respect to dead and spare us of his hate propaganda". Oh, and by...

French President Francois Hollande (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, January 11, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Thibault Camus) The French government was opposed to the idea of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attending Sunday’s...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian infant fell ill and died due to severe cold in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday, as winter storm Huda pummeled the region for a third day. Gaza Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said that two-month-old Rafah Ali Abu Assi died of...

A Rwandan survivor of the 1994 genocide prays over the bones of victims at a mass grave in Nyamata, Rwanda, April 6, 2004. Photo by AP The Tel Aviv District Court is located on Chaim Weizmann Street, named after the Zionist leader who was eventually defeated by his partner and rival David...

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian fisherman was critically injured early Saturday after an Israeli warship opened fire on his vessel off the coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. The incident came as a number of Israeli military vehicles reportedly crossed the border near Beit Lahiya in...

Archive: Adei Ad outpost Photo by Nir Kafri Settlers from the Adei Ad illegal outpost in the West Bank threw stones on Friday at an American consulate convoy, which arrived at the area to examine complaints that settlers destroyed Palestinian-owned olive groves the day before. One of the...

Muntasser Bakr, an eleven-year-old Palestinian boy who lost four of his relatives when two Israeli missiles slammed into a beach during the 50-day July-August Gaza war, stands at his house in front of the portraits of the victims on December 24, 2014. PHOTO: AFP GAZA: Muntasser survived an...

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A Jewish settler assaulted a Palestinian woman being held under armed Israeli guard three weeks ago at a Jerusalem hospital, Ma'an has learned. Yousif Matya, a lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner's Society, said in a statement that Amal Taqatqa, a Palestinian woman from...

JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday afternoon shot a 5-year-old Palestinian child in the face with a rubber-coated steel bullet in East Jerusalem as he was getting out of a school bus on his way home, relatives said. "An Israeli soldier fired a black rubber-coated bullet at the...

Indian Muslims offer prayers during Eid al-Adha at the Vasi Ullah mosque in Allahabad, India, on Oct. 6, 2014. Some Muslim families in India say they fear pressure to convert to Hinduism under the Modi regime. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP) NEW DELHI — In this secular but predominantly Hindu nation of...

Oil from the bombed power plant of Jieh contaminating the beaches of Beirut (Photo from Wikipedia.org) The US General Assembly has nearly unanimously approved a resolution urging Israel to pay Lebanon some $850mn compensation to cover the clean-up cost of an oil spill caused in 2006 by the IDF...

Very often, the tone coming out of the mouths of Israel's supporters sounds like one of faith. Rarely the qualities they say they admire in Israel - usually, efficiency - can be put to test, and when they do, reality belies their statements. So, Israel's supporters often sound like they're...

Ambassador Daniel Shapiro proudly displays the disgusting menorah in the shape of an Iron Dome missile battery, complete with tiny flags from the US and Israel. Despite having raked in over a billion dollars on the failed Iron Dome system, US and Israeli defense contractors are eagerly...