Oscar Jarzmik @Oscar_Jarzmik

Hebron-based, Palestinian human rights activist Issa Amro last appeared in an Israeli military courtroom in July 2017, when his long-delayed trial was again...

Legislative restrictions controlling public access to information have always existed in Israel. Like other nation states, Israel has a vested interest in...

The 1947-1949 War for Palestine resulted in the mass displacement of the Palestinian people, and paved the way for the creation of the Jewish state of Israel....

A new kindergarten was set to open next month in the Palestinian-Bedouin village of Jabal al-Baba, located 2.5 miles east of Jerusalem in the E1 corridor of...

Those concerned about press freedom in Israel/Palestine have had a lot to contend with over the past several weeks. Israel’s communications minister recently...

In January 2017, the Palestinian-Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran briefly captured national headlines after Israeli police officers shot and killed local...

Last week, images were posted on social media showing what appeared to be Canadian-made armored vehicles being used by Saudi forces against civilians in the...

After a deadly shooting on al-Haram al-Sharif in East Jerusalem on July 14, 2017, Israeli occupation forces unilaterally imposed new security measures...

Palestinian waqf (endowment) officials responsible for running the day-to-day affairs at al-Haram al-Sharif (noble sanctuary) in East Jerusalem have continued...

There have been so many politically motivated arrests of Palestinian activists and politicians over the past month it can be difficult to keep up with...

In the spring of 2016, news surfaced of a rather bizarre proposal made by Israeli minister of intelligence and transportation, Yisrael Katz (Likud). Katz...

The Palestinian-Bedouins of al-‘Araqib in the Negev desert (southern Israel) are rebuilding their village after its demolition for the sixth time this year....

U.S. President Donald Trump is sending his special envoy to Israel/Palestine this week in order to “advance U.S. efforts to reach an Israeli-Palestinian...

The United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is one of the world’s largest and most enduring international...

June 5, 2017 marks fifty years since the 1967 war, which led to the Israeli conquest of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, in addition...

Israeli Education Minister, Naftali Bennett, and Jerusalem Affairs Minister, Ze’ev Elkin, submitted a five-year plan to the Israeli cabinet over the weekend...

On Saturday May 20, Israeli forces raided and dismantled a protest camp in Sarura, located in the south Hebron hills in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The...

In recent weeks, Israeli ministers reintroduced and approved an updated version of the nation-state bill. The bill cleared its first parliamentary hurdle...

As the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike enters its fourth week, the national committee supporting the strikers is calling for an escalation in civil...

On Tuesday April 25, 2017, the UN held a pledging event in Geneva, Switzerland for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The UN Secretary General, António...

After receiving a fair amount of media coverage in Canada last year, the Heart to Heart summer camp program is organizing for 2017. Heart to Heart is a...

The Palestinian Committee for Prisoner’s Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, and the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics released a joint...

On April 9, 2017, The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) commemorated the 69th anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of...

March 30, 2017, marked forty-one years since the first Land Day protests were organized by Palestinian citizens of Israel, or ‘48 Palestinians. The...

Over the past eighteen years, Palestinian citizens of Israel have gathered to walk in the March of Return. For these Palestinians, the march has become the...

The Arab Studies Society’s Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Department was established in 1983 by Faisal al-Husseini, a leading Palestinian...

During the July 2016 Gay Pride parade in Toronto, Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLMTO), which was featured as the “honored” group that year, staged a sit-in...

In February 2016, the Parliament of Canada voted to formally condemn the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement against the State of Israel by a...

On February 23 2017, Yitzhak Herzog, chairman of the Israeli Labor Party, published a 10-point peace program in the Israeli daily, Haaretz. Herzog’s program...

Islamophobia has been on the rise across Canada over the past decade. According to Statistics Canada, while the total number of hate crimes have dropped...

Since the “financial crisis” of 2008, a range of protest tactics, including blockades, boycotts, marches, strikes, and sit-ins, have once again become a...

In April 2017, the Canadian government will announce the winner of a design competition for a long-planned Memorial to the Victims of Communism. Once chosen,...

During the 1947-1949 war for Palestine (al-Nakba), Zionist military forces managed to expel the vast majority of Palestinians (roughly 28,000) who lived in...

On January 22 2017, the Israeli Security Cabinet agreed to postpone a discussion and government vote on the long anticipated “annexation bill.” The...

The High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens in Israel, which is an extra-parliamentary body representing Palestinian citizens, called for a nation-wide...

On December 28, 2016, U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, delivered a candid speech that was widely described as a “last-chance effort” by the Obama...

In April 2015, The Guardian published a powerful piece by novelist Teju Cole on the less visible forms of state violence that have characterized Israel's...

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem. In recent weeks, advisors to the...

After months of particularly intense bombing campaigns and siege, the remaining pockets of rebel-held territory in East Aleppo are falling to the Syrian regime...

In Canada, reactions to the results of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections were varied, ranging from fear and shock to jubilation. But, it was a sense of...

On December 1, Progressive Conservative MPP (Member of Provincial Parliament) Gila Martow introduced Private Member’s Motion 36 to the Ontario legislature,...

The Israeli outpost of Amona has captured media attention in recent weeks. In December 2014, the settlers of Amona, which was established in 1995 on private...

On November 14, Palestinian Members of the Israeli Knesset (MK) Taleb Abu Arar and Ahmad Tibi took to the podium to recite the adhan (Muslim call to worship)....