Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Last week was another in a long line of public relations disasters for the Israeli state, as its unacceptable military occupation of millions of stateless Palestinians continues. It isn’t just that the Palestinians are deprived by Israel of basic human rights. Israeli policy is to strip from them in piecemeal […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Jerusalem: Evictions show how urban Planning is being weaponised against Palestinians
By Haim Yacobi and Irit Katz | – One olive in my garden is better than anything material in the whole world. These sad words were uttered by Mahmoud Salhiya after his home in Sheikh Jarrah was recently demolished by Israeli forces. Sheikh Jarrah is a Palestinian neighbourhood of 3,000 inhabitants at the eastern part […]
What former PM Netanyahu’s Corruption Trial says about the State of Israeli Democracy
( Middle East Monitor ) – Former Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his prosecutors are reportedly finalising the details of a plea deal that would practically water down, shelve, or drop altogether all three major corruption cases that have led to his high-profile trial in May 2020. If such news actualises, Israel would officially […]
Equal Opportunity Terrorism: Israeli Squatter Settlers attack Rabbis for Human Rights alongside Palestinians
By Ashraf Al-Ajrami | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Illegal settlers from the Givat Ronen settlement carried out a terrorist attack against Palestinian citizens and activists from Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights. This resulted in ten of the Israeli activists being injured, one of their cars being set on fire and another one being […]
When Israel Kills an American, Washington calls for “Investigation;” Hundreds of Palestinians? Not so Much
( Middle East Monitor ) – Last week, 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Asad was kidnapped, tied up, and apparently tortured by Israeli army thugs in the West Bank. He was found dead soon after. It’s the kind of brutality habitually imposed upon Palestinians by the illegitimate Zionist regime to maintain a “pure” Jewish state in historical […]
How Israel’s ‘Facebook Law’ plans to control all Palestinian content online
By Ramzy’s Baroud | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control and suppress online content. This was in 2016, and the bill was introduced by Netanyahu’s […]
Strengthening intergenerational work on Israel-Palestine Peace
By Andrew Gordon-Kirsch and Cherie Brown | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As trainers, coaches and activists on Israel-Palestine issues, we have found ourselves in the middle of many heated intergenerational arguments. Disagreements can range from campaign tactics to who is most to blame for the continuing conflict. Cherie recalls a time shortly after […]
Violating Geneva Convention, Israel Expels Salhiyeh Family and Demolishes their Home in Palestinian E. Jerusalem
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that early on Thursday morning, Israeli security forces brought bulldozers to demolish the house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Occupied East Jerusalem of the Salhiyeh family, having expelled the thirteen family members who owned it into the street on a freezing, rainy winter […]
Breaking the Silence: Oppression of Palestinians reminds American Student in the West Bank of Black Lives Matter
( Traveling Twins ) – On Friday, December 24, I joined a Breaking the Silence tour of the South Hebron Hills- an area in the southern West Bank designated as Area C – meaning under full Israeli control and supervision. We visited sites surrounding Yatta, a central Palestinian city, including the Lucifer Farm, and the […]