Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens has raised accusations of racism. Most Palestinians living in East Jerusalem are not Israeli citizens, instead Israel issues identity cards permitting them to live there. But now authorities are threatening to retrieve dozens of IDs. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from East Jerusalem.  Read More »

UPDATE: The following story is claimed by most websites to be an actual HOAX. If it’s a hoax or not is up to you as we can’t confirm nor reject this story. This story has first surfaced on a Pakistani website which has been taken off their website since first published: http://www.daily.pk/world/americas/9334-israeli-spokesman-says-we-control-stupid-americans.html “Another Israeli... 

Demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest rally: Protesters demand Georgian president resigns Overshadowed by allegations of bizarre coup plots and Kremlin-inspired subterfuge, the protests have prompted fears of a return to the violent turmoil that characterised Georgia’s transition from Soviet satellite to sovereign state in the early 1990s. But so far, at least, the demonstrations have... 

The Global Movement for the Defense of Children’s Palestine Branch reports that Israeli imprisonment of Palestinian children is up. Over the past two months Israeli forces have increased campaigns against children. At the end of February 2009 the number of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons was up to 423. This is the highest number since the beginning of the Al Aqsa Intifada in 2000. It... 

A Tel Aviv man in his late fifties is living with 32 women with whom he has fathered 89 children, an Israeli television station revealed last week. The women are subject to strict discipline, but say that they are all living with Goel Ratzon by their own accord. They are not allowed to communicate with men, be in physical contact with their biological family, eat meat, smoke, drink alcohol or... 

So you think Israel is really threatened by Hamas Rockets ? Do you think Israel is in danger of being exterminated by surrounding “evil arabs”? While the IDF is entering Gaza, Israel promotes pornography, the media lied that Palestinians are terrorists, the truth is that Israel is in very good condition, this year they organized the biggest Sex-Festival called Sextival 2008. What you can... 

Avrohom Mondrowitz ‘I planned to murder Mondrowitz’ “I wanted to murder him. Or to kidnap him and beat him to within an inch of his life and then dump him somewhere. Or to drag him to the American embassy and then send him back to the United States.” The speaker is T., who says he is one of the victims of Avrohom Mondrowitz, the alleged pedophile from Brooklyn who styles himself a rabbi and... 

Israeli warplanes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security installations in Hamas-ruled Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 230 people in one of the bloodiest days in decades of the mideast conflict. The government said the open-ended campaign was aimed at stopping rocket and mortar attacks that have traumatized southern Israel. More than 400 people were also wounded. Most of the casualties were... 

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims pray at Namira Mosque at the plains of Arafat outside the holy city of Mecca More than two million Muslim pilgrims gathered around a mountain east of Mecca on Sunday at the peak of the haj to beg God’s forgiveness, chanting “O God, I am answering your call!”. At noon, pilgrims were still trickling into the area filled with thousands of tents in the plain... 

In a frame from a video provided by IntelCenter, posted on the Internet on Thursday, April 13, 2006, al Qaeda’s deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, praises insurgents in Iraq. Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group’s first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of... 

Fred Hiatt is a Jewish Editorial Page Director of one of the most powerful newspapers in America, The Washington Post. Being the major newspaper in America’s capitol gives it enormous influence in that it is read by virtually ever member of both Congress and the vast bureaucracy of the U.S. Government. Hiatt is married to fellow Jewish activist, Margaret Shapiro, who is also media-influential as... 

A.Q. Khan — a rogue Pakistani scientist – has done more than any other person or country to spread nuclear weapons around the world. Name a nuclear hotspot — and Khan’s clients are there. Iran. North Korea. Libya. And perhaps the deadliest potential customer.a terrorist network. willing to make its own nuclear jihad. This is the story of one man’s deadly legacy that spread... 

In Islamic Countries, White Women are Regarded as Promiscuous, says Iranian Sex-crime Offender in London An Iranian delivery driver who sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl has been ordered to attend a programme to improve his attitude to women. Morteza Jafari, 36, told probation officers that in his home country it is generally believed that white women are promiscuous, South Western Magistrates’... 

John Pilger Israel’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern. Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists who expose establishment propaganda, or “official drivel,” as Gellhorn called... 

Israel provided a textbook example of a “hate crime” when Orthodox Jews gathered and publicly burned hundreds of New Testament Bibles last week. The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, architect of hate crimes laws worldwide, says a hate crime occurrs whenever violation of the law is motivated by bias against an identifiable protected group of people (like Jews, Muslims, or homosexuals)....