Israel/ Palestine

By Yousef Alhelou | – (Middle East Monitor) – An overdue report has finally been published by the UN Human Rights office which lists 112 companies benefiting from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Almost 100 of the companies are based in Israel, while the rest are from 18 other […]

Israel/ Palestine

Hate Speech Makes American Israel Public Affairs Committee a Hate Group: Rep. Betty McCollum

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Press Release by Betty McCollum, Congressional Representative for Minnesota’s 4th District | – McCollum Statement: Hate Speech Makes AIPAC a Hate Group As a Member of Congress and the vice-chair of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, I believe defending human rights and freedom are foundational to our national security and our democracy. But the struggle […]

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AirBnB, Expedia, Tripadvisor Named by UN as Collaborators with Apartheid Israeli Squatter Settlements on Palestinian West Bank

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday released a long-awaited list of 112 companies that do business with Israeli squatters on the Palestinian West Bank. These squatters have most often been covertly sent in by the Israeli government itself to steal Palestinian land, build on […]

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“Swiss Cheese” or “Frankenstein’s Monster?” Arab Leaders Struggle to Describe the Kushner Apartheid Plan

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Trump administration’s plan for Palestine is so nightmarish that Arab leaders (who rejected it out of hand at a recent Arab League meeting) are having to resort to purple prose to describe it. Senior Saudi prince Turki al-Faisal, who served for two decades as minister of intelligence and also […]

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Israeli Blocking of Palestinian Exports to Jordan Shows reality of Apartheid that the Kushner Plan would only Cement

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli government blockade on Palestinian agricultural exports through Jordan on Sunday illustrates the Apartheid character of Israeli rule over the Palestinians. Palestinian trucks loaded with produce were stopped by quickly-erected Israeli blast walls and forbidden to head into Jordan. The Palestine-Jordan trade in commodities such as vegetables, fruits, olives, […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinian-Israelis, 20% of Israel, are next Victims of Kushner Apartheid

Middle East Monitor

By Adnan Abu Amer | @adnanabuamer1 | – (Middle East Monitor)- Israelis of all political persuasions welcomed the Trump “peace plan”, but the Palestinian citizens of the self-styled Jewish state are angry because the deal refers to land and population swaps between Israel and Palestinian Authority territory. This confirms that Israel wants to displace them, […]

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Nothing could have been a better gift to Iran in the region than the Kushner Apartheid for Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the “august leader” of the country, lambasted the Kushner Plan for the Palestinians, and took the opportunity also to blast the four Arab countries whose representatives attended its announcement. Since Saudi Arabia and the others often play the racist “non-Arab” card against Persian Iran, it must […]

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Israeli security forces arrest 1 Palestinian journalist, and injure another covering protests

Committee to Protect Journalists

(Beirut) — Israeli authorities should reveal the reason for journalist Mohammad Malhem’s arrest or release him immediately, and should investigate the injuries sustained by journalist Abdul Mohsen Shalaldeh and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Yesterday, Israeli security forces arrested Malhem, a Palestinian reporter for the Hebron-based radio broadcaster […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Kushner Plan is a “Peace” to End all Peace in Israel and Palestine

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – After several postponements, US President, Donald Trump, has finally revealed the details of his Middle East plan, dubbed ‘Deal of the Century’, in a press conference in Washington on January 28. Standing triumphantly beside Trump, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, must have surely understood that the timing of the […]