Miko Peled

Miko Peled is a MintPress News contributing writer, published author and human rights activist born in Jerusalem. His latest books are"The General's Son. Journey of an Israeli in Palestine," and "Injustice, the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five."

The Sword and The Book: How Zionism Does Violence to the Jewish Tradition

Glorifying war and violence is, like Zionism itself, an anathema to the Jewish faith.

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JERUSALEM -- In his comprehensive treatise on the subject of Judaism vs. Zionism, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro writes, “The Jewish lifestyle is incompatible with the sword.” Violence and war are frowned upon in Judaism, which is one of the reasons that traditional, orthodox Jews by and large distance themselves from, if not completely rejecting, Zionism.

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The HLF Five: How US-Israeli Geopolitics Cruelly Warped the US Judicial Process

While Bush rushed to designate the Holy Land Foundation a terrorist organization and declare that closing them down was somehow a great achievement in the fight against terrorism, the fact of the matter was that he had no proof.

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In this courtroom illustration, U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish and defendants Mufid Abdulqader, Ghassan Elashi, Mohammad El-Mezain, Shukri Abu Baker and Abdulrahman Odeh are shown during the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial at the federal courthouse in Dallas, Oct. 22, 2007. (AP/Pat Lopez)

There seem to be few limits to bias and cruelty when it comes to the United States judicial system in the service of political and geopolitical agendas. Communities of color in the U.S. have experienced this cruelty for centuries but for those of us who live outside of that realm, who live in the sphere of the privileged, meeting this cruelty face

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An Empty Building with a Tattered Flag: Palestinians Have No Voice in Washington

Sad to say, the role of the head of the PLO office in Washington was in fact little more than that of a punching bag for the television networks.

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Par Miko Peled

WASHINGTON — In January of 2021 Reuters reported on “U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to work to reopen the Palestinians’ diplomatic mission in Washington.” The office was closed down by then-President Donald Trump almost 25 years to the day after the signing of the Oslo Accords at the White House. The report mentions some of the legal and political

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Algerian Judoku Fethi Nourine Suspended: A Brave Individual Pays the Price for Institutional Failure

If organizations such as the IJF, the IOC, and other international sporting giants acted responsibly and prevented teams that represent Israel from participating in international sports, individual athletes would not need to risk their careers and act, as Fethi Nourine did, alone.

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Fethi Nourine

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY -- As these words are being written, Palestine and those who support freedom and justice commemorate the horrific murder of Muhammad al-Durrah and serious wounding of his father Jamal by Israeli forces in Gaza. It was September of 2000. The video of the killing of 12-year-old Muhammad and wounding of his father, who was trying to

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Des millénaires glorieux à la mort et à la destruction : les sionistes réécrivent l’histoire de la Palestine

Le récit sioniste est sans doute responsable de l’attitude accueillante et indulgente du monde entier envers les crimes horribles et impardonnables commis par Israël depuis sa fondation en 1948.

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Palestanian Bedouins

As these words were being written, the final two Palestinian freedom prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison were caught by the Israeli authorities. Palestine is still reacting to this courageous escape and the consequent re-capture of the six political prisoners who escaped and defied the entire Israeli security apparatus. However, even though

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Why Israel’s Gilboa Prison Break has Palestinians Celebrating

Opportunities for Palestinians to celebrate as a nation are few and far between, so when news broke of the escape of six high-profile Palestinian prisoners from one of Israel’s most notorious prisons, people took to the streets in triumph.

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Gilboa Prison Break Feature photo

GILBOA PRISON, PALESTINE -- It is said that Palestinians are the most incarcerated people in the world. Rarely does one find a Palestinian who has not been a victim of the Israeli prison system and when one does find one such person, he or she will have a sibling, parent or another close relative who serves or has served time in an Israeli prison.

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L'hymne du sionisme : le danger qui rôde dans la "Jérusalem d'or"

Si la mosquée Al-Aqsa est détruite, l'allumette sera allumée par un colon fanatique, mais ce sont des décennies d'endoctrinement sioniste et de politiques israéliennes qui seront responsables de la destruction.

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Par Miko Peled
Dome of the Rock Feature photo

JERUSALEM -- The risk of Israel destroying the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and replacing them with a so-called Jewish temple is real and present. Building a temple in place of the mosque and golden dome that grace Jerusalem today has been a long-time Zionist aspiration, expressed in songs, tales, and, over the last decade, provocations

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