By Motasem A Dalloul | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – After 141 days on hunger strike in an Israeli prison, Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash has agreed a deal with the occupation authorities that his administrative detention will end on 26 February. The Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission announced the deal between Abu […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Emma Watson of Harry Potter Fame expresses Solidarity with Palestinians, is Smeared as Anti-Semite by Far-Right Likudnik
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – British actress Emma Watson, 31, whom many remember from her childhood role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, is all grown up. And she made big waves on the internet by posting an image to Instagram that showed Palestinians protesting, waving the Palestinian flag, and demanding a “free […]
2021 in Palestine: A new generation has finally risen
( Middle East Monitor ) – At the onset, 2021 appeared to be another ordinary year, one of unrelenting Israeli occupation and continued Palestinian misery. While much of that remained true, the dynamics of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were challenged by an unprecedented sense of popular unity among Palestinians, not only in the occupied […]
New Leftist President of Chile is an ardent supporter of Palestinian Rights
( Middle East Monitor ) – In Chile, where the largest population of Palestinians in Latin America resides, the Leftist candidate Gabriel Boric has won Chile’s presidential election after he defeated his far-right rival José Antonio Kast by 10 points. 35-year-old Boric’s victory represents a major revival for Chile’s progressive left. The President-elect, Gabriel Boric, […]
Top Three Ways Israeli Policies Caused the Oslo Peace Accords to Collapse – According to former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon
By Jeffrey Rudolph | – ( Detailed Political Quizzes) – Ami Ayalon, a former director of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, explains why Oslo failed in his 2020 memoir (co-authored with the academic Anthony David), Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future. Essentially, Ayalon argues that while […]
From Palestine to Afghanistan, Top 6 Ways our World Changed in 2021
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It is time to look back at 2021 and consider the most consequential developments, as covered here at Informed Comment. 1. The most important change was that the Republican Party has abandoned democracy, as witnessed by its reaction to the attempted Trump coup of January 6, 2021. The GOP has […]
How Tutu, de Klerk, and Mandela would end Israeli Apartheid
( Mondoweiss) – What does the end of South African apartheid tell us about how Israeli apartheid can end? That sanctions on Israel are required, and that a civil society mass movement is the only way to get there. By Jeff Warner | – With the December 26, 2021, death of Bishop Desmond Tutu, six […]
Israeli Army loses control of Squatter-Settlers who are attacking Palestinians ever more Brutally
Adnan Abu Amer | – ( The Middle East Monitor) – The attacks carried out by the Israeli settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank alongside violations of the occupation soldiers have continued to the extent that they have prompted Israeli alerts and fear that these attacks will ignite the security situation in the […]
Protesting latest Israeli attacks on Palestinian universities and civil society organizations (MESA)
Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | December 23, 2021 Committee on Academic Freedom Interventions Israel Birzeit University Naftali Bennet Palestinian civil society Terrorist Prime Minister Naftali Bennet Fax: +972-2-5664838 Minister of Education Yifat Shasha-Biton Fax: +972-2-5602390 Minister of Justice Gideon Sa’ar Fax: +972-2-6285438 Brigadier General Ghasan Alyan Head of Civil Administration […]
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