Report Reveals European Firms Have More Than $255B Entwined in Illegal Israeli Settlements

The continuous settler takeover of Palestinian land has prevented Palestinians from developing and utilizing their resources and therefore significantly depleted their economy.

Jessica Buxbaum
By Jessica Buxbaum
The Israeli Jewish-settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP/Oded Balilty)

OCCUPIED WEST BANK, PALESTINE -- Nearly 700 European firms have financial ties worth $255 billion with businesses actively involved in Israeli settlements, according to a new civil society report. The Don’t Buy Into Occupation (DBIO) coalition is a joint project between 25 Palestinian and European non-governmental organizations investigating the

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Human Rights Watch Report Reveals Major Free-Speech Impact of Anti-BDS Movement

Human Rights Watch has been subjected to intense backlash by Israel and its supporters, including a number of state governments, for its role in publicizing the home rental company Airbnb’s operations in the illegally occupied West Bank.

Alexander Rubinstein
By Alexander Rubinstein
The Israeli Jewish-settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Seventy-eight percent of Americans live in states that have laws or policies against boycotting Apartheid Israel or Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report details the immense price Americans pay when exercising their free speech via their purchasing power

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Ireland Passes Bill Banning Goods From Israeli Settlements in Occupied Palestine

The upper chamber of Ireland’s parliament passed a landmark bill that would effectively impose a nationwide ban on the purchase of goods and services originating in illegal Israeli settlements.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Justice for Palestine

DUBLIN – On Wednesday, the upper chamber of Ireland’s parliament – the Seanad – passed a landmark bill banning the purchase of goods and services originating in illegal Israeli settlements. Passed with 25 senators voting in favor and 20 against, the bill still needs to go the lower house of Ireland's parliament, Dáil Éireann, for a debate and a

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Should Israeli Settlers be Considered Civilians?

Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”

Robert Inlakesh
By Robert Inlakesh
The Israeli Jewish-settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP/Oded Balilty)

It is time to pose a question: Are Israeli settlers civilians? Or are they illegal occupiers? A group of Israeli settlers made the move, to seize land in East Hebron (al-Khalil) last Monday (06/03/18), setting up camp - adjacent to the ‘Kharsina settlement’ - backed by an entourage of heavily armed soldiers. This move threatens three Palestinian

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Israel Preps for Syrian War with Golan’s Oil and Water in its Sights

While news of Saturday’s dangerous escalation involving Syria’s downing of an Israeli fighter jet is fizzling out, Israeli plan’s for a broader war to secure water and oil reserves in the resource-rich Golan Heights are just getting underway.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
File - In this Monday, Nov. 28, 2016 file photo, Israeli soldier directs a tank near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. A senior Israeli military officer says regional chaos has weakened the country’s enemies and created a low probability of a war in 2017 involving Israel. The official says Lebanese Hezbollah militants are mired in the Syrian civil war and the Hamas militants have lost much support from the outside. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

GOLAN HEIGHTS – Soon after Saturday’s dangerous escalation involving Syria’s downing of an Israeli fighter jet in its airspace seemed to fizzle out, the Jerusalem Post reported that Israel was approaching the de-escalation period as a time to prepare for large-scale war with its northern neighbor by boosting its air defenses. According to those

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Kushner Under Fire for Receiving $30M From Israeli Firm While Shaping Middle East Policy

“While Mr. Kushner has sold parts of his business since taking a White House job last year, he still has stakes in most of the family empire—including the apartment buildings in and around Baltimore.”

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, speaks with Haim Saban, about the Trump administration's approach to the Middle East region at the Saban Forum in Washington, DC (Brookings Institute Twitter)

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is once more under intense scrutiny after new reporting revealed that his lucrative financial relationship with Israel has deepened even as his influence over U.S. Middle East policy—from his leading role in Trump's effort to "derail" a U.N. vote against Israel to his sway over

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