Tag Archives: Palestine

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres watches as British Prime Minister David Cameron signs a visitors book in Jerusalem Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Cameron was visiting Israel to vow support in rejecting boycott attempts against the Jewish state. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
Court Rules UK Government Acted Illegally In Blocking Israel Boycott By June 23, 2017
UK pension companies will be allowed to boycott Israeli investments, following a judicial review which found the government had acted unlawfully. The UK High Court ruled in favor of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), finding...
A Bedouin woman sit on the remnants of her demolished home in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, near the southern city of Beersheba, Israel, Jan. 18, 2017. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
Israel Demolishes Palestinian Village For 114th Time In Seven Years By
ISRAEL — Israel Land Authority (ILA) officials, along with Israeli police and several bulldozers, raided and then demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev region this week. The demolition marked the 114th time that the ILA has destroyed the village,...
Activist and writer, and founder of If Americans Knew, as well as President of the Council for the National Interest, Alison Weir. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
The Forward Publishes Antisemitism Accusations Against Prominent Activist By
The website of the Forward newspaper recently published an opinion piece by political hitman Spencer Sunshine, in which he slammed the American Left and specific individuals for alleged antisemitism, including Alison Weir. Sunshine is a writer/activist who focuses on antisemitism,...
A Palestinian man tries to stop work by an Israeli bulldozer during a protest outside the village of Deir Qaddis, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, July 13, 2016. Dozens of Palestinians demonstrated Wednesday in front of Israeli bulldozers that were bulldozing land outside Deir Qaddis village near Ramallah for an apparent plan to expand a nearby Jewish settlement. The protesters forced the bulldozers to stop, but residents said they resumed work after the protesters left the area.
The UN Is Last Hurdle Before Israel Can Rid Itself Of The Palestinians By
Nazareth. Israeli and US officials are in the process of jointly pre-empting Donald Trump’s supposed “ultimate deal” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They hope to demote the Palestinian issue to a footnote in international diplomacy. The conspiracy –...
A Palestinian man fills tankers with drinking water for sale at a drinking water station in Gaza City. Poor sewage treatment is a feature of life in Gaza, a result of infrastructure damaged during wars with Israel and a chronic shortage of electricity to run wastewater plants. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
Untreated Sewage Could Flood Gaza As Crippling Power Outages Worsen By
GAZA — Due to the myriad of highly publicized conflicts in the Middle East – from Qatar’s current diplomatic crisis to the battle against Daesh (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq – many other crises in the region have slipped under the international radar. One such crisis...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a meeting with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, not seen, in his residence in Jerusalem, Israel, June 7, 2017. (Debbie Hill/AP)
Nikki Haley: UN Report ‘Reeks Of Anti-Israel Bias’ By
Efforts by the United Nations to create a database of blacklisted companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, has come under sharp criticism from Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the UN, who has said it “reeks of anti-Israel...
Tzipi Hotovely sits in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. On May 21, 2015 Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, delivered a message to the international community saying that Israel owes no apologies for its policies in the Holy Land and citing religious texts that it belongs to the Jewish people. (AP/Emil Salman)
Israeli Calls On UN To Stop Using The Term ‘Occupation’ By
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, has called on the United Nations to stop using the term “occupation” in reference to Israel’s control over Palestinian lands. The senior official claimed that the international organization has been lured to repeating...
President Donald Trump waits to deliver a speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)
Arab Islamic American Summit 2017 – How The U.S. Made A Fool’s Bargain With Saudi Arabia By
BEIRUT (Opinion) — The Arab Islamic American Summit held in Riyadh on May 20 and 21 was an extraordinarily surrealistic event, to say the least. Many factors made the event highly unusual, not the least of which was its timing. The summit was held just after the...
The Har Homa neighborhood, an illegal Israeli settlement in occupied east Jerusalem. (AP/Dan Balilty)
Amnesty International Urges UK To Ban Imports From Israeli Settlements By
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the UK to ban all imports of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements to help end multimillion-pound profits which have fuelled mass human rights violations. To mark the 50th year of Israel’s occupation...
Luis Moreno-Ocampo leaves after a swearing-in ceremony at The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP/Bas Czerwinski)
Former ICC Official: Israel Will Be Convicted Of War Crimes By
The former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo has said that the investigation being carried out by the ICC concerning the issue of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, will most likely result in condemnation...