Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Scores of demonstrators suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces dispersed weekly protests in the occupied West Bank with rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas, and skunk water. | h/t Ma’an Images. In the village of Bilin near Ramallah, Israeli forces reached the outskirts of […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Giant British security firm G4S to end Israeli business after BDS pressure
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — British security giant G4S announced Wednesday plans to sell its Israeli businesses in the next 12 to 24 months citing commercial reasons, according to the official website of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement. The world’s largest private security company has been a major target for […]
Biden: Israel cannot stop violence solely through physical force
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — United States Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday said Israel could not stop violent acts carried out by Palestinians solely through physical force, the Associated Press reported. Biden landed in Tel Aviv Tuesday as multiple attacks were carried out by Palestinian individuals in Israel and occupied […]
Nearly Half of Israeli Jews want to Expel Palestinian-Israelis from Country
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Nearly half of the over 6 million Israeli Jews want to expel from the country the 1.6 million citizens of Palestinian heritage, most of them Muslims, according to a just-released Pew Forum poll This is a startling statistic. It would be as though half of Flemish […]
That stream of Refugees into Europe? It includes Palestinians forced out by Israeli Occupation
By IMEMC | – – Palestinians are joining the Middle East exodus to Europe in greater numbers because of the Syrian war and ongoing Israeli occupation, a senior Palestinian official has said. Saeb Erekat, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), told EU Observer, from Ramallah, that “thousands” had already left for Europe. […]
Netanyahu GOP Policy in Tatters, he snubs White House Invitation
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A year ago, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu intervened in US politics in a big way, addressing a Republican-dominated Congress and lobbying it against the UN Security Council deal with Iran forestalling that country’s civilian nuclear research program from ever becoming militarized. Netanyahu’s startling direct intervention […]
Israel prepares 10 New Laws to Discriminate against Palestinians, Rights Activists
IMEMC | (Via Alternative Information Center) – – Adalah unpacks 10 Israeli laws and bills with provisions liable to harm Palestinians and those who defend Palestinian rights. Adalah: the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel released a summary of ten Israeli laws and bills that include “discriminatory and/or anti-democratic provisions that are liable […]
No, Mr. Netanyahu, Hamas is not exactly like ISIL
By: Belal Shobaki | Ma’an News Agency | al-Shabaka | – – While Israel’s efforts to link Palestinian resistance to its military occupation to global terrorism are not new, it has expanded its propaganda to address Arab as well as Western audiences. By so doing, it is clearly seeking to exploit the global aversion to […]
Mr. Netanyahu, We don’t have to Apologize for being Israelis of Palestinian Heritage; We’re the 20%
By Rita Khoury | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv last month after a fatal shooting during which two Israelis were killed and eight others injured, he reassured his people that all steps were being taken “with every means available” to find […]
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