The Electronic Intifada

Third Ramadan under genocide has not squashed its spirit No call to prayer. No children playing. Few late night gatherings and hardly any standing mosques. Gaza’s holy month has been a silent one.

“The tanks start shooting randomly at night and the quadcopters don’t leave the sky.”

EU "very keen" on Israel cooperation despite public fury, says internal paper electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

“Everything feels blurry” Children in Gaza struggle to learn after Israel’s genocide robs them of schools and homes.

At an age when she should be reading fluently, Layan still struggles with words.

Military raids target West Bank education Israel’s raid on Birzeit University in January the largest since October 2023.

“I looked at the videos I received. They were horrifying: students fleeing from tear gas and live ammunition. I rushed to find transportation to the university, imagining the worst.”

Lost paperwork prompts fears for property rights With Trump’s Board of Peace short on detail and filled with outsiders, people fear they may lose their homes and lands.

While residents struggle to reclaim what they have lost, plans for Gaza’s future are being drawn up far from the people who live there.

Holocaust remorse rings hollow in Germany Wieland Hoban examines the war against Palestinians waged by the EU's most powerful country.

Holocaust remorse rings hollow in Germany electronicintifada.net/content/holo...

Illegal war on Iran wins applause from leading Brussels media outlet electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Saving lives at a time of slaughter For much of the ongoing genocide, Baker Abu Safia was the only surgeon in northern Gaza.

Baker Abu Safia, the only surgeon in northern Gaza, recounts some of the horrors he endured while on duty during the Israeli genocide. #eiGazaDispatches

The European Union is accusing Irish journalist David Cronin of "disinformation" for writing factual articles on The Electronic Intifada about how senior official Katharina von Schnurbein works with Israel to weaponize anti-Semitism electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Europe ramps up repression of Palestine's refugees Lobbyists ran a hate campaign against a young man who left Gaza for Greece.

Europe ramps up repression of Palestine's refugees electronicintifada.net/content/euro...

Rebuilding universities must be a priority in Gaza University lectures in Gaza are being held at wedding venues, but attendance has dropped due to financial and other hardships.

After Israel had largely reduced the Islamic University of Gaza to rubble, the university rented a wedding venue to serve as a makeshift lecture hall. #eiGazaDispatches

Epstein document dump is a cover-up Massive US file release withholds the telling facts leaving investigative journalists, historians and bloggers to speculate on the larger picture from the crumbs on offer.

The absence of Israel-Mossad cross-referenced files for Epstein, the Maxwells, Barak and Wexner is laughably absurd.

Firm selling Israel's spy tech woos Europe's cops electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Laughing in the face of oppression Despite Israeli crackdown, Palestinian stand-ups use comedy as a tool of resistance and decolonial practice.

Laughter, satire and storytelling can not be stolen or killed.

The owner of the black cassette A film in Jeddah stirs a bitter flashback for the author, leaving him sobbing quietly in the cinema.

Israel killed my sister Islam – the owner of the most important cassette in my life. #eiGazaDispatches

High Court overturns Palestine Action ban electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...

Noor’s short life of unimaginable suffering Born during the genocide, writer’s daughter lost her sight and ability to move in an Israeli bombing.

She cries constantly. Out of pain, boredom and confusion. #eiGazaDispatches

CPJ scrapped "Impunity Index" to shield Israel, whistleblowers say Email shows CEO proposed "lighter lift" statement in place of annual ranking, after surge in Palestinian journalist killings.

You may have heard that Omar Shakir resigned from Human RIghts Watch after it suppressed a report critical of Israel. Now whistleblowers tell EI that something similar happened at CPJ.

Why Israel persecutes children like my son Shadi Boys and girls are arrested to strike the future before the present.

Rania Elias’ teenage son is being dragged through the system of a racist, colonial state and a judge is due to hand down Shadi Khoury’s fate on 15 February.

Why I quit Dell over Gaza I could no longer sell my labor to a company enabling genocide.

"I am haunted by Hind Rajab’s final phone call. The gunfire audible through the line as the little girl begs for rescue tears my heart. Audio from the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites sounded like hell: screaming, bullets and panic."

German media ignores allegations that Israel raped German journalist International activists with the Freedom Flotilla say they were abused, assaulted and humiliated in Israeli detention.

“Justice is the end of Zionism.”

Jenin and Tulkarm refugees fear permanent displacement – again Forcibly removed from their camps in the northern West Bank, twice-over refugees fear for their internationally mandated rights.

“For residents, this is about the possible erasure of the political status they have maintained for close to eight decades.”

Who paid for German lawmaker's AIPAC trip? Leading pro-Israel advocate in European Parliament depicts vetting of aid workers as reasonable.

Who paid for German lawmaker's AIPAC trip? davidcronin.substack.com/p/who-paid-f...

The soil is everything Tulkarm farming family face losing their land, as the Israeli military orders their farm demolished.

“What is happening to us is like a school – a school of life, of struggle, of steadfastness, of how you can live and resist.”

Old school imperialism is alive and well From Palestine to Venezuela, Western colonialism has dropped its mask.

“Gaza is a glimpse into the future. I am very much afraid.”

Germany grovels to Trump electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Funding for PEN Pinter Prize is irredeemably tainted Blavatnik foundation is deeply enmeshed with Israel’s academic-military architecture of occupation.

PEN’s acceptance of funding from the foundation is not just controversial; it amounts to institutional complicity.

How far we live. How close we feel A short phone call with my family in Gaza.

“Do you have electricity? Do you have water? Do you have a washing machine? A TV? An oven? Do you have a cozy home? These are blessings.”

Handwringing over Jerusalem, EU aids colonizers electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Trapped between two different worlds When my father evacuated to Italy I was hopeful my family would be next; my hope is now fading.

“This moment doesn’t feel real,” my friend Hassan said. “Your father is escaping a fire we still have to live in.”

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