It’s Been a Deadly Winter Along Israel’s West Bank Border

Vice News

Israel’s aggressive vigilance of its borders has resulted in the loss of another Palestinian life.

On Wednesday, 15-year-old Yousef Nayif Yousef Shawamrah Abu-Akar was shot dead by an Israeli soldier

Abbas Meets With Obama as Palestinians Vent Frustration

Vice News

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House on Monday, where he spoke with President Barack Obama about the peace negotiations with Israel that began last July and have continued

Attacks on Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Backfire

Truth Out

In December, the American Studies Association (ASA) answered the call from Palestinian civil society and endorsed the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, a milestone for the controversial Boycott Divestment and

The Inconceivable Atomic Legacy of New Mexico

Vice

In 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon was detonated at the Trinity site, in New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert.

The massive blast pulled the white desert sand up into an atomic

Teenage Palestinian amputees top Kilimanjaro

Al Jazeera English
In 2006, Mutussam Abu Karsh was playing soccer in the northern Gaza Strip when an Israeli tank shell exploded, ripping his leg and part of his hand from his body.

Uranium mine troubles Native American groups

Al Jazeera English
Mounds of radioactive waste dot the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation in the US state of New Mexico. The earthen monoliths contain contaminated material from the more than 250

Rights violations exposed in LA prison sting

Al Jazeera English
The FBI's arrest of 18 current and former Los Angeles prison staff in a sting operation earlier this month casts light on alleged "brutality" and civil rights violations in some

Israeli land claims: Archaeology and ideology

Al Jazeera English

Jerusalem – The Holy Basin – containing Jerusalem’s Old City and its surrounding territories – may be the most contested piece of property in the world.

Sacred to Jewish, Christian

Oktoberfest in Palestine

Vice

On a fall Sunday in Ramallah, the courtyard in the $60 million Movenpick Hotel swarmed with hundreds of drunk Palestinians.

On a stage at one end of the crowd, the