Joe Catron

Joe Catron is a MintPress News contributing journalist. He covers Palestine and Israel and other human rights issues. Catron has written frequently for Electronic Intifada and Middle East Eye, and co-edited The Prisoners' Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag, an anthology of accounts by detainees freed in the 2011 prisoner exchange.

As Palestinians Worldwide Mark 68 Years Of Exile, The Nakba Continues To Unfold

‘The strongest message we send in Nakba Day commemorations is that we will not forget, and we will return,’ a Palestinian activist told MintPress News as hundreds mobilized in New York.

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Hundreds Rally beside City Hall in Manhattan before marching over the Brooklyn Bridge to gather in Cadman Plaza Park in support of the Palestinian right of return.

NEW YORK --- As thousands of Palestinians mobilized throughout the West Bank, Gaza Strip and present-day Israel to mark the 68th anniversary of the Nakba on May 15, more gathered with their supporters in cities across the world. “Nakba Day is extremely significant for Palestinians,” Ibrahim Mossallam, outreach director for the Muslim American

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National Lawyers Guild Calls For IRS Investigation Of ‘Racist’ Jewish National Fund

The JNF is “responsible not only for the past displacement of Palestinians, but the ongoing displacement of Palestinians and discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel,” a campaign supporter told MintPress.

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Israeli President Shimon Peres, right, and French President Francois Hollande, plant a Cedar tree in Jerusalem. The National Lawyers Guild called for the investigation of the Jewish National Fund, an organization famous for planting tress on land forcibly seized from Palestinians. (AP/Abir Sultan)

WASHINGTON --- On Wednesday, March 30, the National Lawyers Guild filed a regulatory challenge asking the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of the Jewish National Fund. The group's 501(c)(3) classification, a valuable asset for charities in the United States, not only exempts it from taxation, but also lures donors

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For Palestinian-Americans, Protesting Israeli Apartheid & Occupation Is A Family Affair

“I used to go to protests since I can remember, since I was able to walk. … My mother was very active, and she attended almost all, if not all, of the protests as I was growing up with my siblings and I,” said one woman who was joined by her teenage sons and daughter at a recent AIPAC protest.

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WASHINGTON --- Among the crowd of protesters gathered outside an American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington on March 20th stood a number of Palestinian families. “I don't want to just say that it's because we're Palestinian,” Rowayda Widdi told MintPress News. “We're really active in these things because we have family

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Protesters Amass Outside White House, AIPAC Conference In Support Of Palestine

“The American public needs to realize what AIPAC’s doing. It’s tragic. It’s doing damage to humanity,” said one man who traveled all the way from Australia to protest AIPAC’s annual policy conference.

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Protests Swell As Journalist Jailed By Israel Approaches 70th Day Of Hunger Strike

“He shouldn’t die for practicing his profession,” journalist and administrative detainee Mohammed Al-Qeeq’s brother tells MintPress News as protests worldwide demand his release.

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New Yorkers took to the streets on Friday, 29 January to demand the immediate release of imprisoned Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq, on his 66th day of hunger strike and shackled to his hospital bed in critical condition.

NEW YORK --- As Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq reaches the 70th day of a hunger strike against his administrative detention by Israel on Tuesday, protests demanding his freedom are growing across the world as others continue in Palestine. “Mohammed is hanging between life and death,” Islam al-Qeeq, his brother, told MintPress News from

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Israel Escalates ‘Water-Apartheid’ As Illegal Settlers Contaminate Palestinian Water

Israel’s discriminatory allocation of water, along with its theft, destruction and pollution of Palestinian water resources, sparks accusations of racism and apartheid.

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Palestinians displaced by Israeli strikes wait to get water from portable tanks near a makeshift encampment behind Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (Joe Catron)

UNITED NATIONS --- Israeli restrictions on Palestinian water use, as well as damage to water supplies and infrastructure by both Israeli forces and Jewish settlers, continue to deplete the already limited water supplies available to millions of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. “Water is used by the Israelis to achieve

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Cracks Are Appearing In Israel’s Wall Of Impunity At The Hague

As Israel faces a gathering storm at the International Criminal Court, the court’s own crisis of legitimacy may spur it to action.

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Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki holds up a copy of the International Criminal Court's founding treaty, the Rome Statute

THE HAGUE, Netherlands --- As Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to mourn the losses of last summer’s Israeli military offensive, which killed 2,251 Palestinians in the besieged enclave, including 551 children, over 51 days, Israel increasingly risks new legal repercussions for its actions. “It's obvious that war crimes were committed

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