Kalim Rajab

Israel sponsored trips for African journalists and influencers — including from South Africa, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Cameroon, Morocco, and Kenya — to visit Israel. In South Africa, three major outlets failed to disclose that their reporting trips were funded by Israel. The sponsored visits produced one-sided coverage that lacked Palestinian perspectives. Source: Al Jazeera

I've just been chatting with Nick Cullinan, the excellent new director of the British Museum, and I'm very relieved to say that the story put by the Daily Telegraph about the BM cancelling the name Palestine is a complete misrepresentation of the facts: "To reassure you we are not removing mention from Palestine from our labels," Nick told me. "Indeed, we have a display on at the moment about Palestine and Gaza. "I know this is something our curators have thought long and hard about - as you can imagine. We amended two panels in our ancient Levant gallery last year during a regular gallery refresh, when some wording was amended to reflect historical terms. "To be honest, the even more frustrating and concerning thing is that I knew nothing about this until yesterday and has only been explained to me this morning. I hadn’t even seen that [UK Lawyers for Israel] letter despite asking for it until this morning. I’m disgusted by the whole thing." The question remains why the Daily Telegraph would put out such a mischief-making story without first fact checking it with the Directors office.

First they steal your history. Then they erase it.

The IDF has announced that it "accepts" (!) the Palestinian estimate of 70000 dead over the last two years, not including those buried under the rubble. "Accepts" means that even the vast network of lies no longer holds. If the IDF "accepts" 70000, it has killed innumerably more.

As the video below demonstrates, Israelis are often astonishingly ignorant about the history of the Palestinians communities around them. They haven't the slightest conception that, as their DNA proves, the Palestinians have deep roots in the soil going back to at least the Bronze Age and are in many cases their cousins. Instead they imagine them- quite unhistorically- as random Arab immigrants from 6thC on, who are indistinguishable from other Arabic-speakers elsewhere and who should therefore be ethnically cleansed to other Arabic-speaking areas, without compunction. The half-truths and massive omissions of Zionist history writing from Herzl onwards has a lot to answer for: history re-written to airbrush an entire people out of history and prepare the way for the ethnic extinction of the entire indigenous Palestinians people.

Just in time for Christmas, Beit Sahour, a majority-Christian Palestinian village outside of Bethlehem [the birthplace of Jesus] was informed that an illegal Israeli settlement will soon be built on top of their land, turning the village into two heavily militarized enclaves and surrounded by violent Israeli settlers. A letter from Dr. Elias Iseed, the Mayor of Beit Sahour: