Israeli police officers assaulted, on Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians who peacefully marched in Jaffa, Tuesday, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting against the escalating Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem, and the rest of the occupied territories, especially the attacks against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. The Arabs48 News website has reported that the police attacked the protesters, who marched in the city, including protesters who rode bicycles and motorcycles. The protesters chanted for ending the Israeli violations against the Palestinians, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. more

Netanyahu condemns attacks on graves of Muslims and Christians but it is his government that is bolstering anti-Arab racism in a state that officially treats Palestinians within its borders as second-class citizens. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday decried the desecration of graves in Christian and Muslim cemeteries in Jaffa during Yom Kippur, saying that Israel is "not willing to tolerate vandalism, especially not the kind that would offend religious sensibilities." “Israel shows tolerance for religious sentiments and a desire for peaceful coexistence without violence, but will show no tolerance for those who oppose it”, said Netanyahu during a cabinet meeting. Netanyahu’s words came after both a Muslim and Christian cemetery were vandalized by graffiti that said “Death to the Arabs”, and “price tag”. Headstones were smashed and racist slogans were spray-painted on graves. The incident occurred less than a week after a mosque was torched, also by alleged Jewish ex...

More attacks planned in 'day of rage' by settlers on the West Bank, more illegal building activity approved in East Jerusalem and Zionists march in Jaffa, spreading their anti-Arab hate - thankfully confronted by Palestinians and leftist Jewish activists. Hundreds of officers, police chopper secure march against 'Islamic takeover of Jaffa'. Residents take to streets to protest, holding signs saying 'Extreme Right's racism equals neo-Nazism in blue and white'; 16 leftists arrested Traffic was halted on one of Jaffa's main streets Wednesday morning as 60 right-wing activists prepared to march in protest against "the Islamic Movement's operations in the city" and "the Islamic takeover". Large police forces were deployed to prevent clashes with residents. As the marchers proceeded down the street residents called out, "racists go home" and some clashes broke out. Police detained 16 left-wing activists for questioning after...

Re-posted from Lawrence of Cyberia Those People in Gaza: Where Do They Come From, And Why Are They So Mad? "We tend to believe abroad that Palestine is nowadays almost completely deserted, Jaffa, Palestine: Palestinians gather at the Grand Serai (local government offices) in July 1908, to celebrate the al-Hurriyah Revolution (i.e. the Young Turks Revolution) against Sultan Abdul Hamid and in favor of the restoration of the constitution and the holding of Parliamentary elections. (via Walid Khalidi , Before Their Diaspora ) . a noncultivated wilderness, Jaffa, Palestine: General view of the city from the sea looking east, pre-1914. (Matson Collection, 1898-1914 ). and anyone can come there and buy as much land as his heart desires. Jaffa, Palestine: Street scene in the old city next to the Jaffa's famous Clock tower, pre-1914 (Matson Collection). But in reality this is not the case. Jaffa, Palestine: The bazaar in 1896. It is difficult to fi...

An 'Arab Israeli' woman, Rasmiya Saadi, (in other words a Palestinian living inside the so-called 'Jewish state') and her young children aged between 8 and 14 were assaulted by police on Wednesday in Jaffa. Her kids were playing with a toy gun - a dangerous for an Palestinian to do in the apartheid state - when a passing police vehicle stopped and attacked the children. When the pregnant mother tried to intervene she was hit in the stomach. The female Israeli officer stood by and laughed according to reports at ynetnews . The police then entered the woman's house and among other things locked her 14-year-old son in a room and beat him, later taking him away for detention, and no doubt more beatings. These instances of police brutality against Palestinians in Israel are an everyday event but are rarely reported in the media. None of the Israeli police involved have been arrested let alone charged but hey - they are 'investigating'.