The so-called peace process is a charade.

By Jonathan Cook - February 24, 2010

The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago...[T]he cabinet backed a bill last week that, if passed, will jail senior officials from the country’s peace-related organisations should they fail to meet tough new registration conditions.

Israeli ethnic cleansing to make Jerusalem exclusively Jewish.

By Jerome Slater - March 13, 2010

The prospects for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have never been worse...[T]he Obama administration has essentially surrendered. We may be winning the battle for the hearts and minds of a small minority, but we are still losing the much more important battle: to persuade the dominant majority in both the U.S. and Israel of the need for radical changes in Israeli attitudes and behavior towards the Palestinians.

March 12, 2010

Independent Jewish Voices (IJV)...welcomes yesterday's defeat of MP Tim Uppal's House of Commons motion condemning Israeli Apartheid Week..."This shows courage to stand up to the Orwellian attempts by Israel's supporters to bully Israel's critics into silence..."

By Matthew Kalman - Daily Telegraph

[Israeli] Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered the army to cut off the [West Bank] until midnight on Saturday, citing a heightened risk of attacks...Israel also limited access to Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Only worshippers with Israeli identity cards and aged over 50 were permitted.

All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law.

By Jonathan Cook - Znet

Seven years after Rachel Corrie, a US peace activist, was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza, her family was to put the Israeli government in the dock today..."My family and I are still searching for justice. The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened. We believe the Israeli army must be held accountable for her unlawful killing."

Israeli state-sponsored terrorism against children.

By Gideon Levy - 07/03/2010

There have been societies in the past in whose name frightful injustice has been committed, but at least within some of them, genuine, angry and determined left-wing protest took place - of the sort that requires personal risk and courage, and which is not limited to action within the cozy consensus. An occupying society whose town square has been empty for years, with the exception of hollow memorial rallies and poorly attended protests, cannot wash its hands of the situation.

By CONN HALLINAN - March 9, 2010

A heavy-handed crack down on Israeli dissidents is drawing sharp criticism by human rights organizations and at least a mild judicial slap on the wrist for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu...“Since [the Gaza war], the political climate in Israel has become extremely polarized. And this polarization has reached a level where anyone who is critical is presented as a traitor.”

An important Tribunal highlighting Israel's violations of international law.

By Anna Macchi - 03 March 2010

"South Africa is the historical place where...the word comes from, from the Afrikaans language, but now...'apartheid' is a crime that any state can commit...It has an international definition that we can find in the international convention for the suppression and punishment of the crime of apartheid...[W]hen we look at the history of the Zionist movement and the process of establishing and maintaining the Israeli state, it's clear that Israel committed the crime of apartheid."

-- Hazem Jamjoum of the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights discussing the Israeli Apartheid system.

Apartheid is the worst form of racism.

By NORMAN FINKELSTEIN - March 3, 2010

Public outrage at the Gaza invasion did not come out of the blue but rather marked the nadir of a curve plotting a steady decline in support for Israel. As polling data of Americans and Europeans...suggest, the public has become increasingly critical of Israeli policy over the past decade. The horrific images of death and destruction broadcast around the world during and after the invasion accelerated this development.