There’s a lot of America happening this weekend. For good or ill. Sunday June 14 is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of the Stars and Stripes 249 years ago . It is also the birthday of the current president of...
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Islam Times - Following the U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran, the Middle East has been exposed to rapid developments and profound shifts in the balance of regional and international powers. In this context, Khaled Al-Saadi, head of the Association of Palestinians...
The head of the Palestinian Football Association is waiting in Mexico City for permission to enter the United States, with other federation heads attending the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Jibril Rajoub went to the opening match between...
Slovenia, l’ombra delle interferenze israeliane sulle elezioni e il ritorno di Janša al potere
Full ArticleIl voto parlamentare che ha aperto la strada al quarto governo Janša chiude la stagione di Robert Golob, ma non cancella le ombre sulla campagna elettorale. Le accuse sulle attività di Black Cube rivelano un ‘ inquietante interferenza filoisraeliana contro...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Governorate warned of a new settlement plan being pushed by the Israeli occupation municipality to establish what it describes as an “educational complex” in the Kafr Aqab neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem, on land...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Three Palestinians were injured, one of them seriously, on Friday evening after dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked the outskirts of the towns of Beitillu and Jamala, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, under the...
GAZA, (PIC) Sixty-two members of the US House of Representatives and Senate have called on the Trump administration to pressure Israel to lift restrictions on Palestinian patients seeking medical treatment and to reopen the medical corridor that previously allowed Gaza patients...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) More than 60,000 worshipers performed Friday prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque despite Israeli restrictions and obstacles imposed around occupied Jerusalem. Tens of thousands of worshipers filled the Mosque’s courtyards and covered prayer halls despite Israeli occupation police forces’ restrictions...
GAZA, (PIC) The Gaza Center for Human Rights said on Friday that newly released official data from Gaza’s Health Ministry, along with figures published by Palestine newspaper on birth and miscarriage rates since the start of Israel’s military assault in October...
Writers do not only document the horror of conflict; they speak to a future that must exist beyond it Last week, thousands of readers gathered for a literary festival in Kyiv, risking air raids to hear from writers. Four...
Palestine Action activists sentenced as terrorists
Full ArticleFour Palestine Action activists have been sentenced to a combined total of more than 25 years in prison, after a judge ruled that they could be treated as terrorists. Charlotte Head, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were convicted...
Four Palestine Action activists were sentenced as terrorists on Friday despite having only been convicted of criminal charges. They have also been jailed. This marks the first time in British legal history that a designation has been applied to...
Pawel Mościcki – World Cup in hypocrisy
Full ArticleFootball today functions as the crystallization of the highest stages of capitalist exploitation Paweł Mościcki is a professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the author of numerous books and a blog: pawelmoscicki.net...
Israeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France's local elections in March, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and Scotland, and operating in Angola and Togo, France's disinformation detection service, Viginum, said on Thursday. Last month,...
Gaza requires urgent international attention. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Cross-posted from Counterpunch What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it...
Hear no evil, see no evil, punish no evil: The British Government’s policy on Israeli aggression against its citizens I picked up my friend, Cerie Bullivant, from Stansted airport on 23 May 2026. He had arrived there from Occupied Palestine via...
Joseph Massad – Palestinian elites have been collaborating against the resistance for a century
Full ArticleThe Palestinian Authority’s war on the resistance is the continuation of a collaboration with colonialism that Palestinian elites have practised for more than a century oseph Massad is professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York Cross-posted...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has condemned a real estate fair in the capital advertising homes in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and said he has raised concerns with the Metropolitan Police over potentially unlawful sales at...
On Sunday 14 June, the " Great Israeli Real Estate Event " is scheduled to arrive in London. Its promotional language will be familiar: investment opportunities, property portfolios and international buyers. Behind that respectable vocabulary lies a harsher reality. Palestinian...
GAZA, (PIC) Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on Friday that the Israeli military’s movement of the so-called “yellow line” westward in Gaza City, accompanied by shelling and the displacement of Palestinians, represents a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement. In a statement,...
Battle of the missiles – The Apache scam
Full ArticleBy Larry C. JOHNSON Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su A truly bizarre series of events off the coast of Iran today that in my opinion were entirely provoked, if not staged, by...
While billions watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup across the US, Canada, and Mexico, Palestinians in Gaza experience it differently. Most Gazans , instead of celebrations, seek basic needs like electricity and internet amid over two years...
GAZA, (PIC) Two mass weddings held in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, offered displaced Palestinians in Gaza rare moments of joy and resilience as families continue to endure war, destruction and harsh living conditions. On Thursday, Al-Mawasi hosted a mass wedding for...
"This is the only thing I still have left from Gaza. Everything else can be taken from me, but my voice can't be taken away. Even if I'm gone, my voice will still speak," Palestinian rapper Ahmed Shamaly — known...
Does sportsmanship still exist?
Full ArticleWhen we talk about the need to reform international institutions, we cannot forget that even in areas as seemingly trivial as sports, the West calls the shots. Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su...
Illegal Israeli settlements received at least £28 million in donations from 32 charities in England and Wales in the last five years, Labour MP Melanie Ward has revealed, while Israel continues to pass laws that pave...
2026 World Cup in Gaza: Football passion collides with the reality of genocide and displacement
Full ArticleGAZA, (PIC) With the launch of the 2026 World Cup competitions, the eyes of football fans around the world turn to the biggest and most followed sporting event, but the scene in the Gaza Strip looks completely different, where the repercussions...
WEST BANK, (PIC) Israeli settlers carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, targeting Palestinians, their property, agricultural lands, and continuing incursions into the Aqsa Mosque compound. In the Ramallah area, settlers entered an...
Donald “Whiplash” Trump Tacos Again
Full ArticleI need a personal injury attorney. I’m going to sue Donald Trump for whiplash. At 9 am in the morning, Donald Trump doubled-down on his threat the previous night to, “Bomb the shit out of Iran,” by vowing to launch...
The son of a Hamas co-founder said that Israeli authorities released his father in the occupied West Bank on Thursday after holding him without trial for more than two years. Hassan Yousef, 71, was "freed near the southern West...
Starting from the modern-day West Bank, Jesus rode his donkey westward around the Mount of Olives toward Jerusalem for what would be his Last Supper. As he passed through the ancient olive groves that blanketed the hillsides, he would have...
Peter Oborne – Illegal wars, racism and genocide: USA World Cup 2026 should be boycotted
Full ArticleTrump’s US is embroiled in war crimes on multiple fronts. It does not deserve to host football’s biggest tournament Peter Oborne’s new book, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza, was recently published by Or Books. Cross-posted from Middle...
In October 2023, Israel found an excuse to breathe new life into an old story of slaughter and expulsion. The chief differences this time have been of scale and duration Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the...
DOHA, (PIC) Hamas Political Bureau member and negotiation delegation member Hossam Badran said that meetings between Palestinian factions in Cairo are taking place in a positive and constructive atmosphere, noting that there is broad agreement on a unified national position regarding...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli government is expected on Thursday to approve the allocation of 1 billion shekels (approximately $338 million) for new settlement projects in the occupied West Bank, including infrastructure development and expanded services for settlements and outposts, according...
Israel’s escalating military campaign in Gaza and the occupied West Bank is "claiming an intolerable price" in Palestinian children's lives, UNICEF has warned, as killings, injuries and detentions surge to unprecedented levels. In its latest statement...
The prospects of forming a Joint Palestinian Arab electoral list within Israel's 1948 boundaries have significantly diminished ahead of forthcoming Israeli Knesset elections, after hopes rose in recent weeks amid popular support from Palestinian citizens of...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council in Occupied Jerusalem, has called on Muslim worshipers to frequent the Aqsa Mosque and intensify their presence inside its premises and courtyards to protect it against Israeli schemes. In a...
A jury at Birmingham crown court is deliberating whether four pro-Palestine activists committed criminal damage at an arms factory in Wolverhampton. Defendants Iain Evans, Hisham Alkhamesi, Frank Sherman, and Hana Yun-Stevens believed the factory, used by arms firm Moog, supplied weaponry...
WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has applauded the detonation of an explosive device at Israeli forces in al-Jaberiyat neighborhood of Jenin City, calling it a “reflection of continuous Palestinian resistance in the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Thursday, Hamas...
Israel is planning to establish a permanent military base in the West Bank city of Jenin , marking a significant escalation in its presence within the occupied territory. This would be the first time since the 1993 Oslo Accords...
The number of oil shipments sailing through Egypt's Suez Canal has risen sharply since the onset of the US-Israel war on Iran on 28 February, as disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz push energy companies to...
Baghdad, Iraq - For forty years, Iraq's footballers watched the world's biggest tournament from the sidelines. Nine editions of the World Cup came and went. Generations of talented players, including what many consider the finest generation in the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by police officers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards on Thursday morning and later in the afternoon, amid tight restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site. According to local sources,...
RAMALLAH, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to end its “revolving door” policy of political arrests in the West Bank, after field and rights data documented more than 25 arrest cases since the start of the...
Top UK lawyers, along with hundreds of health workers, are calling for Woolwich Crown Court not to sentence four Palestine Action activists as terrorists ahead of their sentencing on Friday. Over 50 lawyers and legal professionals, including Michael...
€8.5 Million EU4Commerce Initiative Launched to Support Upgrading the Commercial Crossings for Palestine
Full ArticleRAMALLAH / PNN/ The Palestinian Ministry of National Economy, the European Union (EU), and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) officially launched EU4Commerce, an €8.5 million strategic project designed to modernize trade infrastructure and improve the movement of...
The recent sanctions on extremist Jewish Israeli settlers and the networks enabling them in the occupied West Bank that were imposed this week by the UK, France, Canada, Australia, and Norway are long overdue. In reality, Israel’s brutal...
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