Israeli militants besiege two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes

NB: The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,382 Palestinians killed and 174,236 injured since October 7, 2023, according to medical sources. … They added that the total number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire on October 11, 2025 has reached 1,255, while the number of injuries has… Read More Israeli militants besiege two Palestinian families in their West Bank homes

Israel: Protest against settler terror. By Ira Berkovic

Date: August 3, 2026 Author: aplutsoc “Write my name on my leg, Mama” On Friday, July 24, settlers carried out a violent raid on Palestinian homes in Tal, near Nablus. Four Palestinians were killed, and two Israeli settlers also died in retaliatory clashes. A week earlier, settlers had set fire to a house in Tal with residents inside.… Read More Israel: Protest against settler terror. By Ira Berkovic

How a Teen, Not a Journalist, Debunked Israel’s Gaza ‘Voluntary Emigration’ Plan

The journalistic value is clear: The boy revealed Feiglin’s true face. And more importantly, he revealed the despicable lie of “voluntary emigration.” No one is leaving voluntarily. It’s just putting them on trucks and shipping them out Gideon Levy There hasn’t been an interview like this in years, perhaps never, on Israeli television. A ray… Read More How a Teen, Not a Journalist, Debunked Israel’s Gaza ‘Voluntary Emigration’ Plan

Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction

As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire Simon Tisdall Feckless and clueless, Donald Trump is lost in Iran, unable to find a way out of the disastrous war he started. Once again, the US military is pummelling the… Read More Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction

‘If we don’t act on the proof against Israel, we can’t redeem ourselves’: Justice Muralidhar / Killing the Future: The UN’s Findings on Palestinian Children

NB: Since October 2023, at least 20,179 Palestinian children have been killed; and 44,143 injured. 58,000 children have been orphaned. Palestine has the largest concentration of child amputees in the world. This is the blood soaked memorial of so-called western civilisation. The genocidal mania of the US/UK/Zionist regime is a scar upon the human conscience… Read More ‘If we don’t act on the proof against Israel, we can’t redeem ourselves’: Justice Muralidhar / Killing the Future: The UN’s Findings on Palestinian Children

‘Is it Israel’s aim to kill our children?’ West Bank parents implore end to IDF’s child killings with impunity

Israeli army has killed 235 children in West Bank since 7 October 2023 without a single indictment in what rights groups call a ‘licence to kill’… More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed (21,000 of them children) since October 2023. In the West Bank, military rules of engagements have been loosened and impunity is the norm.… Read More ‘Is it Israel’s aim to kill our children?’ West Bank parents implore end to IDF’s child killings with impunity

Pierre Bourdieu: Picturing Algeria (2003)

In this book, we are introduced to Pierre Bourdieu at the beginning of his career, and through photographs more than words. The photographs come from Bourdieu’s years in Algeria during what became in the end the successful struggle for independence from French colonial rule. They are accompanied by passages from his texts about Algeria, but the images command the book. These images take us to a time of great social drama amid wrenching social change. Many are memorable simply as photographs. But they are also valuable as a source of insight into the formation of Bourdieu’s very distinctive and powerful intellectual perspective. They are not mere illustrations but occasions for further thought.” —FROM THE FOREWORD BY CRAIG CALHOUN “Community” man is giving way to “herd” man who has been deprived of the organic and spiritual realities in and through which he had previously existed. Cut off from his social and geographical origins, his circumstances are often such that he cannot recall even the most ancient ideals of honor and dignity. The war and its aftermath, resettlements and rural exodus, have simply reinforced and accelerated the tendency to cultural disintegration that had been set in motion by contact with “civilization” and the colonial situation. And the movement is now extending to areas that had previously been spared because they had not been directly targeted by the colonialist enterprise, but also because they consisted of small, close-knit rural communities, obstinately faithful to their past and their traditions, which had been able to preserve the essential traits of a civilization that may now be spoken of only in the past tense. A network of small, highly structured communities has given way to a congeries of individuals without attachments or certainties. Time-honored values of honor have crumbled on contact with the brutalities and atrocities of war. As one old Kabyle said, “There isn’t a man who, at the end of all this, will be able to say, ‘I’m a man.’” The ideal image of the self, and the values associated with it, are put to the crudest of tests. Women are raped and abducted. Husbands are interrogated and beaten up in front of their wives. I have been told about a village in Greater Kabylia where soldiers accompanied the women to the fountain just outside the settlement, for their protection. On their return, some of the women drank coffee with the soldiers, or even invited them into their houses. “The young soldier enters the house. The old man, the defender of honor, who has been charged with watching over the wife or the daughter of an exile, knows he can say nothing. He suffers, and remains silent in his corner. One day, the soldier brings food. The old man accepts his share, and is silent. He is ruined.” The war, like a bomb, devastates sociological realities. It crushes, grinds down, and disperses traditional communities—village, clan, family. Thousands of men are in hiding, in internment camps or in prison, or have taken refuge in Tunisia or Morocco. Some are living in towns, in Algeria or France, having left their families behind in their villages, or in resettlement centers. Others are in the French army. Still others are dead, or have simply disappeared. Families have been dismembered and scattered to the four winds. Entire regions, in Kabylia, for example, have been emptied of their menfolk. For the last few months, the clinic run by nuns near Chabet El Ameur has seen no births…. The rural masses, obstinately conservative in their rejection of every innovation proposed by the West, are being swept up in the whirlwind of violence that is in the process of obliterating the past. Even Islam, having been mobilized (more or less consciously) as a revolutionary ideology, has progressively changed its function and signification. The nature, duration, and amplitude of the war have spawned a radical revolution. And it may be supposed that the return… Read More Pierre Bourdieu: Picturing Algeria (2003)