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Police Use Tear Gas During Ethiopian Jews' Rally Against Police Brutality
Police used tear gas against protesters in Tel Aviv on Sunday after a rally against police brutality toward Ethiopian Jews turned violent, local media reported.
Thousands of people took to the streets of the Israeli city to protest alleged police discrimination after a video emerged earlier in the week showing policemen beating a black soldier of Ethiopian origin.
Police used stun grenades and tear...
IDF soldiers assault press in West Bank
A video has emerged showing Israeli forces assaulting photojournalists near the West Bank town of Nabi Saleh. Despite being clearly marked as members of the press, the soldiers push the photographers to the ground and proceed to hit them.
One of the troops also throws a stone at a journalist.
The assault begins with soldiers shouting “Get out of here!”
One of the soldiers is then seen pushing...
Israeli navy attacks Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza
Palestinian fishermen sit on a boat at the port of Gaza City on January 25, 2015.
Israeli navy forces have once again opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the besieged Gaza Strip’s coast, reports say.
According to local media sources, Israeli gunboats fired at Palestinian boats while they were within Gaza’s territorial waters, on Sunday.
“Israeli gunboats opened fire toward a group of...
US to Deliver F-35 Fighter Jets to Israel in 2016
US Vice President Joe Biden announced that the US government will provide F-35 fighter jets to Israel next year to the country a strategic advantage over its rivals in the Middle East.
The US government will provide F-35 fighter jets to Israel next year to the country a strategic advantage over its rivals in the Middle East, US Vice President Joe Biden said during a speech celebrating Israeli independence.
“Next...
UK Green Party MP candidate calls Israel "racist apartheid state"
A Green Party parliamentary candidate is facing a backlash after reportedly calling Israel “a racist and apartheid state.”
Tanya Williams, the Green candidate for Twickenham, South West London, made the remarks during an Amnesty International hustings on Tuesday.
According to the news website SW Londoner, she said: “It needs to be pointed out that they [Israel] are a racist state and an apartheid...
GOP Congress takes marching orders from Netanyahu
The GOP Congress takes its marching orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure there will be no nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1, an ex-US congressional staffer says.
The Republican-dominated Congress is taking its marching orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make sure there will be no deal between Iran and the P5+1 over Tehran’s nuclear energy program,...
Netanyahu calls Putin demanding to stop S-300 shipping to Iran
Following Russia’s decision to lift a ban on supplying S-300 missile systems to Iran, the Israeli PM has called President Putin to express his “grave concerns” – and received a detailed explanation of defensive weapons and the logic behind Moscow’s move.
According to a statement released by the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin “gave a detailed explanation of the logic behind Russia’s decision…emphasizing...
German anti-Israeli Nobel writer, Günter Grass dies at 87
Germany’s respected author and Noble Winning novelist, Günter Grass, known for his sharp criticism of Israel and those supporting the Tel Aviv regime, has died at the age of 87.
Germany’s Steidl publishing house announced Monday that Grass died at a hospital in the northern city of Lübeck.
Best known for his 1959 novel The Tin Drum, the German author won many international awards, with the most...
Israeli Nobel Scientists Find Cancer Suppressing Proteins
Israeli scientists have discovered two proteins that they claim can contain cancer and control the cells’ growth and development.
A team of Israeli researchers headed by Professor Aaron Ciechanover, an Israeli Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, has discovered two proteins that they say can suppress cancer and control the cells’ growth and development, media reports said.
The relevant study was carried...
White House releases pro-Iran nuclear deal funny cartoon for Netanyahu
While debate over a nuclear deal with Iran continues, the White House used a cartoon bomb to demonstrate the benefits of the framework agreement struck with Tehran, a move that was surely meant to tweak Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has been a fierce critic of the framework deal hammered out between Iran and leading world powers earlier this month, but on Wednesday the Obama...
Germany to deliver submarine to Israel
A German-made Dolphin-class submarine in the Mediterranean port city of Haifa.
The German Federal Security Council has allowed the government to deliver another submarine to the Tel Aviv regime.
The German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday that the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel will export the fifth of six promised Dolphin-class submarines to Israel after the council...
Iran-P5+1 nuclear deal infuriates Israeli PM Netanyahu
The outcome of marathon talks between Iran and global powers has angered the Israeli regime with warmongers in Tel Aviv calling it a historic mistake and a dangerous step.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday voiced his opposition to the mutual understanding newly reached between Iran and P5+1 states, claiming that the framework agreement seriously endangers the very existence of the...
McCain mad at Obama over Netanyahu
John McCain speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol on February 5, 2015.
Republican Senator John McCain has censured US President Barack Obama for his response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s divisive victory in Tuesday’s elections.
On Thursday, Obama told Netanyahu on phone that Washington will “reassess” its ties with Tel Aviv after the Israeli premier rejected...
Obama: US to reassess ties with Israel
US President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
US President Barack Obama has told Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington will “reassess” its ties with Tel Aviv after the Israeli prime minister’s recent provocative statements.
Obama delivered the message in a phone call to Netanyahu on Thursday, days after Netanyahu rejected the idea of a Palestinian state during...
Israelis vote against pretence of peace
Despite the predictions, the Israeli left has been soundly beaten in Tuesday’s elections by its more honest ‘right wing’, whose commitment to the total eradication of the Palestinians as any kind of political entity is openly stated.
The defeat of the Zionist Union, ostensibly committed to negotiations and a two-state solution, should not, therefore, be read as the defeat of any genuine desire...