By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In view of the dire UN report warning that in 5 years Gaza may well be uninhabitable for its 2 million Palestinian residents, it is worth considering again that this outcome is being connived at by the Israeli far right wing, one mouthpiece for which is […]
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Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian Christians Clash with Israeli Soldiers after Sunday Mass over Bethlehem Confiscations
by IMEMC News | – – Palestinian Christians clashed with Israeli forces, following mass on Sunday, when priests and demonstrators marched to protest renewed work on the apartheid wall in the Christian majority town of Beit Jala, in the occupied West Bank. The march, the most recent in a string of protests, moved through neighborhoods […]
Palestine overwhelmed by Illegal American Immigrants
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – If there were a Palestinian Donald Trump, he’d be fulminating against illegal immigrants swamping the Palestinian West Bank. And he’d be complaining that fully 1 in 6 of these undocumented squatters are Americans . Since Americans have trouble understanding the basic facts of the situation, it […]
What if it were your kids’ School the Israelis were demolishing?
By: Fadwa Baroud | (Ma’an News Analysis) | – – On July 12, 2015, Israel announced that it would seek to carry out demolition orders of structures in the Palestinian village of Susiya in what is known as Area C, an area that covers 60 percent of the West Bank, under Israeli control, including the […]
Major World Aid Groups & 150,000 people demand end to Israel’s Gaza blockade
Oxfam | (Press Release) – – Oxfam Press Release : More than 150,000 people from around the world have today joined 35 aid, faith, development and human rights organizations in backing an unprecedented joint call urging world leaders to press the Israeli government to lift the blockade on Gaza and remove the restrictions on basic […]
Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions: 126 in West Bank Left Homeless
Human Rights Watch | – – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military unlawfully demolished at least 39 structures in Bedouin Palestinian communities in the West Bank on August 17 and 18, 2015. The demolitions left 126 people homeless, 80 of them children. Four of the communities where the demolitions took place are targeted by an Israeli […]
Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on “made-up laws”; resistance outlawed
By Azeezah Kanji | (OpenDemocracy) | – – Israel invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their corresponding entitlements under the same body of law. This is the colonial nature of Israel’s legal logic. One year after the onslaught of violence Israel called “Operation Protective Edge,” Gaza is still in […]
Israel issues demolition order for mosque in Palestinian East Jerusalem
Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli municipality officials delivered a demolition order Friday to the al-Qaaqaa Mosque, a house, and a studio apartment in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, local sources told Ma’an. Majdi al-Abbasi, from the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, said that Israeli municipality members delivered […]
Israel and the BDS debate: two scholars respectfully agree to differ
By Ingrid Matthews and James Arvanitakis | (The Conversation) | – – From Australia, we watch Israel at a great distance, safe in the knowledge that the regular and horrific levels of violence in the region are far from our shores. But we still find ourselves, like most of the world, asking: what can we […]