Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and frozen military cooperation ahead of a long-awaited United Nations report on Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in 2010. The report …
President Obama has confirmed his administration is continuing longstanding U.S. policy of rejecting a full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Speaking before a gathering of the American Israel …
In a major speech on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and on the Arab Spring, President Obama said a Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders, the first time a U.S. president has …
In a global broadcast exclusive, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner appears on _Democracy Now!_ to announce he will accept an honorary degree at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, …
Norman Finkelstein is author of several books on the Israel Palestine conflict. His latest is _This Time We Went Too Far: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion._ In Part II of our conversation, …
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told attendees at the AIPAC conference on Monday that the US commitment to Israel is "rock-solid," but Clinton did criticize Israel for continuing to build …
Activists with the group Code Pink interrupted Netanyahu's speech on two occasions with calls to freeze settlement building and end the US-backed blockade of the Gaza Strip. One protester said Israel …
Democracy Now! looks back at 2009, including the Israeli assault on Gaza, Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, the economic crisis, Goldman Sachs and the AIG bonus scandal, the escalation …
A United Nations fact-finding mission has found Israel "punished and terrorized" civilians in its three-week assault on Gaza earlier this year and cited strong evidence that Israeli forces committed …
In education news, Clark University in Massachusetts has canceled a scheduled speech by Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein after the Jewish campus group Hillel objected to his appearance. …