Israel/ Palestine

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Jerusalem Report, a biweekly magazine published by The Jerusalem Post, dismissed a freelance cartoonist for an illustration depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud lawmakers as swine characters. The Union of Journalists in Israel confirmed on Wednesday that Avi Katz, the criticized cartoonist, was dismissed after the cartoon ran in […]

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations rights chief on Monday demanded that Israel either give more than 400 detained Palestinian children their day in court or release them, decrying “assaults” on Palestinians’ rights. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein criticized the “administrative detention” system under which Israel is […]

(OpenDemocracy.net) – After Trump’s decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, Israel has gained its ally’s backing to go even further in its control over the Palestinian part of Jerusalem Salem Ahmad/ABACA News Agency/PA images. All rights reserved Roughly around their sixteenth birthday, the youth of Jerusalem are eager to obtain their Israeli Identification […]

Tel Aviv (AFP) – Israelis demonstrated and held a one-day strike on Sunday to protest a law denying surrogacy to gay couples, with thousands attending a rally in Tel Aviv. Police did not give an estimate of numbers at the city’s central Rabin Square, but Haaretz newspaper put the attendance at 60,000. A police statement […]

Israel’s parliament on Thursday adopted a law defining the country as the nation state of the Jewish people

The most devastating effect of Israel’s crimes is a generation of isolated men and women who can find no hope in the future

The US Episcopal Church has announced it has adopted a series of human rights resolutions which will screen Israeli companies