Israel/ Palestine

By IMEMC | – – In a press conference this week, the Obama administration rejected Israel’s government request to recognize the construction of new [illegal] settlements in the occupied West Bank. The issue over new Israeli illegal settlements emerged between Washington and Tel Aviv on Tuesday, according to the PNN, as US Secretary of State […]

censorship

Israel To Coordinate With Google, YouTube, To Censor Palestinian Videos Of Conflict

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By Saed Bannoura | ( IMEMC) | – – The Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Member of Knesset Tzipi Hotovely, held meetings this week with representatives of YouTube and Google, to find ways of cooperating to censor Palestinian videos from occupied Palestine, videos she dubbed as “inciting violence and terrorism.” Israeli daily Maariv said Hotovely will […]

Israel/ Palestine

Jewish-Only Cities to Evict Thousands of Palestinians

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By IMEMC News | – – Thousands of Palestinians will be displaced as part of a new Israeli plan to build several Jewish-only communities in the Negev region, in south of the Israeli territory, which will be built on top of Bedouin Palestinian villages, civil rights groups said Wednesday. “This is part of an ongoing […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israeli protesters demand separate roads for Palestinians, Israelis

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Dozens of Israelis protested in front of an Israeli government building in Jerusalem on Sunday, demanding Palestinians be barred from using the same roads as Israelis in the occupied West Bank, Hebrew media reported. The protesters also called for increased violence against Palestinians in the occupied […]

Israel/ Palestine

Arrest Warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu for War Crimes in Spain, South Africa

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IMEMC | – – South Africa issued, on Tuesday, an arrest warrant against four Israeli officials over their role in deadly attacks on pro-Palestinian international activists. Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against the Israeli occupation in Africa said, in a statement: “South Africa’s Directorate of the Priority Crimes Investigation Unit has issued warrants of arrest against […]

Israel/ Palestine

Swedish FM worries about Muslim & Palestinian Youth Despair, draws Israeli Rebuke

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By IMEMC | – – Following the Paris attacks on Friday, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom made a connection between Islamic State extremism and the Israeli occupation, causing a feud between the two governments, that the Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned its Swedish envoy on Monday. In an interview with a Swedish TV channel, following the […]

France

Palestinian leadership in solidarity with France after deadly attacks

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Ma’an News Agency | – – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Friday expressed his solidarity and sympathy with France in a statement after a series of attacks left over 120 dead in Paris. Abbas said he stood by the French government and citizens in the face of “terrorism,” adding that the international […]

Israel/ Palestine

Jerusalem Tensions: It’s how the Israelis are Ruling Palestinians There

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Brian K. Barber | (Informed Comment) | – – Once again violence has spiked between Palestinians and Israelis; a surge that might well be hard to quell given the chaotic, random, crude, and brutal forms it has taken. There is still an alarming amount of commentary that attributes blame for the violence primarily or solely […]

European Union

EU approves labeling of Israeli Squatter products

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Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The European Union on Wednesday adopted measures to label products from Israeli settlements, considered illegal under international law, in a move welcomed by the Palestinian leadership. The EU Commission, the executive branch of the EU, said the body had adopted an interpretative notice on the “indication […]