Israel/ Palestine

( Middle East Monitor ) – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) published a report yesterday expressing deep concern about the Israeli illegal settlers’ forceful seizure of Palestinian Territories, which has resulted in the displacement of 500 Palestinians from seven different communities. “There are entire Palestinian communities being wiped off the map, a shameful legacy of […]

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How Israel occupied Itself: The Way the Crisis on the West Bank Came Home

Juan Cole

( Tomdispatch.com) – On July 24th, the Israeli Knesset passed a measure forbidding the country’s High Court of Justice from in any way checking the power of the government, whether in making cabinet decisions or appointments, based on what’s known as the “reasonability” standard. In the Israeli context, this was an extreme act, since right-wing […]

Haredim

Israeli Reservists’ Revolt against Netanyahu’s assault on Courts imperils Cohesion of Military

Middle East Monitor

Dr Adnan Abu Amer AdnanAbuAmer2 ( Middle East Monitor ) – As protests continue against the judicial overhaul proposed by the Israeli government, the leadership of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) fears an increase of discontent within its ranks as well as an increase in its lack of competence. The signs get worse every […]

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Israel to deny Palestinian-Israelis Preparation for University, in Exact Parallel to Apartheid South Africa

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – White Power nationalism in South Africa during the Apartheid period from the 1940s until the early 1990s demanded that the 20% of the population that was white control the lives of the 68% of the population that was Black. (Actually, during this era the whites declined to only 13% by […]

Colonialism

The Tapestry of Palestinian History: The Palestine Museum in Bir Zeit

Middle East Monitor

Naima Morelli naimamorelli ( Middle East Monitor ) – Duty and care are the words that would best describe the approach of Dr Adila Laidi-Hanieh towards the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. She is stepping down as director of the museum at the end of this month, and we took the opportunity for her to […]

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Israeli Minister wants to give “a medal” to Jewish Power Extremist who Allegedly shot to death an unarmed Palestinian Youth

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Friday evening, Israeli squatters in the Palestinian West Bank went wilding at a nearby Palestinian hamlet, Burqa, in the northwest of Nablus governorate, attacking the Palestinian inhabitants as Israeli troops gave them cover. We might note that the settling of Israelis in […]

Israel/ Palestine

People with Disabilities in Gaza Languish under Blockade after Israeli Airstrikes

Human Rights Watch

Abier Almasri Research Assistant, Middle East and North Africa Division @abier_i @abier_i ( Human Rights Watch ) – Israel’s airstrikes in Jenin in the occupied West Bank in early July reminded me of the nights during rounds of hostilities in Gaza when my family and I worried we wouldn’t survive to see daylight again. […]

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Israeli Extremists Shamefully propose “Puerto Rican” Model for Palestinians

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Yair Wallach in a post at X notes that Jewish Power Party member Amihay Eliyahu proposes that Palestinians be treated by Israel as Puerto Ricans are by the United States. This is a horrible and outrageous idea from the extremist corner of the Israeli far right, which Tamir Pardo, a […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel didn’t Place Palestinians in “Refugee,” but in Internment Camps

Middle East Monitor

Thomas Suarez ( Middle East Monitor ) – During much of 1948, Palestinians driven from their homes by the violence of that terrible year took safety in what could reasonably be called refugee camps; camps for people who have fled ongoing violence or natural disaster and are unable or fearful to return. They ceased […]