Alarm bells should ring after the Manama workshop
Friday 28-June-2019
Donald Trump’s administration has recently shown great interest in Palestinians and their welfare.
Hossam Shaker
Hossam Shaker is a researcher and author consultant in media public relations and mass communication for a number of organizations in Europe and he resides in Vienna. He has an interest in analysis of European and international affairs as well as social and media issues
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An international birthday for Rachel Corrie
Tuesday 19-March-2019
“Happy Birthday Rachel!” This is what she would have heard in her hometown Olympia Washington.
What next after UN investigation into the bloodshed at Gaza protests?
Saturday 9-March-2019
Over the course of a year the Israeli government and its senior army officers have turned the Gaza Strip into a community of funerals walking wounded and amputated limbs.
What’s next after trying to blame the victim in the General Assembly?
Saturday 8-December-2018
The world must forget its commitments to rights and justice its obligations under international law the Quartet’s promises to establish a “viable and independent Palestinian state”.
The end of a reckless Israeli jaunt in Gaza
Thursday 15-November-2018
It must be thrilling for Israelis to hear about a group of their army’s Special Forces carrying out a professional operation to kidnap leaders from the heart of the Gaza Strip entering and leaving the enclave without a trace and with none of the Palestinians knowing what’s going on.
Hostages in Israeli mortuary refrigerators
Thursday 27-September-2018
Dozens of Palestinian citizens are spending a lot of time in temperatures of minus 40 degrees but it is not something that they have decided for themselves.
Lama Khater’s imprisonment exposes Israel’s fear of words
Friday 14-September-2018
Violent banging on the door at dawn frightened the children. Armed Israeli soldiers were at the door wanting to raid the house and arrest the mother of the family.
A parliamentary vote to occupy history and the future
Saturday 21-July-2018
The stone walls are meticulously sculpted so as to give those who sit in the seats of this parliament a special sense of its historical depth.
Israel’s demolition of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar is a mini-Nakba
Friday 6-July-2018
An attempt to remove a great tree that has deep roots is perhaps the closest analogy of what took place on Wednesday in Al-Khan Al-Ahmar.
Israel’s war on photographers and their images
Saturday 23-June-2018
Amid the ongoing killing of defenseless Palestinian demonstrators the Israeli leadership is engaged in a fierce and multifaceted war on photographers either by shooting at them or criminalizing them.
Razan Al-Najjar: a white coat stained with blood
Tuesday 5-June-2018
After the representatives of Western democracies issued successive statements asserting “Israel’s right to defend itself” the Israeli army wasted no time in exercising this “right” in its own way.
How will Europe act towards Palestine now?
Wednesday 16-May-2018
The game that lasted for a quarter of a century is over and the international promises sold to the Palestinian people under the banner of the Middle East ‘peace process’ have evaporated.
Yaser Murtaja’s camera has fallen but his pictures remain
Tuesday 10-April-2018
A new face from Palestine is catching the world’s attention. He did not carry a stone or a rifle but the camera of a journalist.
The Gaza that has not sunk into the sea
Thursday 5-April-2018
The snipers lined themselves up on the hill and started to target the unarmed boys one by one.
Israeli taboos must be broken for honest and open discussion
Tuesday 20-February-2018
Palestine was never really there. A thousand years is just a worthless length of time and all you see on the ground is a layer waiting to be stripped away completely.
Some Jews aren’t welcome in the ‘Jewish state’
Saturday 13-January-2018
When he wrote his book The Jewish State in 1896 could Theodor Herzl have imagined that his ‘promised land’ would begin to deport some Jews or ban them from entering and even impose restrictions on their organisations?