South Africa Charges Israel with Genocide: What You Need to Know

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Who Killed Alex Odeh?’ The Unsolved Murder of a Palestinian American Activist

In October 1985, Palestinian American activist and community leader, Alex Odeh, was killed by a bomb planted in his office in California. Despite identified suspects and substantial evidence, the case remains unsolved more than four decades later. In this episode of This Is Pales ...  Show more

The Elimination Project: Israel’s Dismantling of Palestinian Life

In its new report, The Elimination Project: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank, B’Tselem examines what it describes as a system of interconnected policies shaping Palestinian life across the West Bank. The report identifies five mechan ...  Show more

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