Israel/ Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera English reports that a big tweetstorm broke out on Twitter after the Israeli military posted a tweet about two female soldiers who shaved off their hair and donated it for wigs for cancer patients. Chemotherapy is accompanied by hair loss. Observers complained that the Israeli military authorities have […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel: Would a Prime Minister Benny Gantz Launch a New War on Gaza?

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor) – Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics. The fact that he has the opportunity to finally oust long-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks volumes about the appeal of his political message, his charisma, and his […]

Israel/ Palestine

Gaza: what life is like under the continuing Israeli blockade

The Conversation

By Yaser Alashqar | – In his latest update to the UN Security Council in late October, Nicolay Mlandenov, the UN’s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, warned that as the occupation of Palestinian land continues and a two-state solution moves further away: “It is a multi-generational tragedy for the peoples of this […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Israel is Usurping the Rich Archeological Heritage of the Palestinian West Bank

Middle East Monitor

By Nabil Al-Sahl | – Palestine is one of the richest countries in the world in terms of antiquities, competing with Egypt in the Arab world. At least 22 civilisations have left their mark on Palestine, the first of which were the Canaanites; their presence is still visible today . . . Studies have indicated […]

Israel/ Palestine

Is Microsoft Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians?

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor) – The act of Palestinian activists covering their faces during anti-Israeli occupation rallies is an old practice that spans decades. The masking of the face, often by Kufyias – traditional Palestinian scarves that grew to symbolise Palestinian resistance – is far from being a fashion statement. Instead, it is a survival technique, […]

Featured

Bernie Sanders: Give Aid to Gaza; & It isn’t Anti-Semitism to Say Netanyahu Gov’t Racist

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bernie Sanders has almost single-handedly changed the discourse on Israel in the Democratic Party and in the United States more generally. But his appearance at the J-Street conference was a further tour de force, and the positions he has staked out clearly have put pressure on the other Democratic candidates […]

Israel/ Palestine

Time for a Paradigm Shift in Israel: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality

Ian S. Lustick

(Informed Comment) – Equipped with the concept of the one-state reality, we can see in one particular feature of today’s political soap opera the seeds of profound and hopeful change. Politics in Israel, as elsewhere, can be approached as unfolding in three kinds of time: geological, strategic, and sports. States, peoples, and political systems appear, […]

BDS

Nelson Mandela’s Church Joins Boycott, Divestment from Israel to Continue anti-Apartheid Struggle

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Nelson Mandela’s church, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, this month endorsed Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). At a recent conference in Cape Town, the church denounced “Israel’s ongoing ill-treatment and oppression of Palestinian people, and the historic prophetic role played by the church and international […]

Israel/ Palestine

She deserves our support: Rep. Betty McCollum wants US to stop subsidising torture of Palestinian children

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Sabah was only 14 years old when the […]