Today is the day that brings even more death and destruction than previous days. Israel, tiring of...
Richard Silverstein
Silverstein is an independent journalist and has published Tikun Olam since 2003. It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He publishes regularly at the New Arab, and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
Over the past week, I joined together with Stanford Professors David Palumbo-Liu and Joel Beinin to draft...
Let’s talk about the faux ceasefire. Really a fraudulent ceasefire. Egypt’s ceasefire with no one. My Israeli source,...
Today marks the first time both sides are seriously discussing a ceasefire. Egypt has brokered a deal...
This is the end of the first week of Israel’s war against Gaza. The NY Times has...
In what was the first ground engagement between the IDF and Hamas forces during Operation Protective Edge...
In a recent post, I published a State Department notice it was evacuating U.S. citizens from Gaza....
Every day the war continues, Israel seems to find ever more inventive ways to kill Palestinians. Just...
Today, the death toll in Gaza has climbed to 90. Half of the dead are women and...
On the third day of Operation Punching Bag (aka Protective Edge), Israel has stacked up 72 Palestinian...
This is the second day of Operation Protective Edge (“Solid Rock”). So far, 27 Palestinians have been...
Bibi Netanyahu, desperate to distract the public from the serial ineptitude of his police force in preventing...











