By: Anna Kokko | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – JAFFA (Ma’an) — Paper lanterns crafted for Ramadan are hanging over the heads of children as they run between a snack table and a cartoon playing on the television. On first glance, this could be any other kindergarten in the city of Jaffa, where over […]
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Palestinian-Israelis
Israel to Destroy Homes of 40 Bedouin Families
By IMEMC | – – Israeli administration has delivered notices for the demolition of dozens of makeshift Bedouin homes of Abu Nawar village, east of Jerusalem. Accordig to the PNN, the notices of demolition delivered by Israeli administrative staff were of two parts. The first part was an order for house owners to halt the […]
Israelis demolish 1,000 Palestinian Homes in Negev Per Year
By IMEMC | – – The Israeli Interior Ministry and Land Administration Agency, in cooperation with the Regavim NGO and the Jewish National Fund (JNF), have been demolishing 1,000 Arab homes in Al-Naqab every year, under the pretext that they were built without permits. Days of Palestine reports that this has been revealed by Amichai […]
Implications for ICC? SCOTUS Jerusalem Decision shows Limits of Israel Lobbies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It has been the position of the US presidents for decades that the status of Jerusalem in international law is unsettled. That is why the US embassy is in Tel Aviv, and why US passports showing the place of birth as Jerusalem just list the name […]
UN Special Rapporteur: Israel Must Abandon Plans to Relocate Bedouin
IMEMC | – – United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, today, repeated his call for the Israeli occupation to abandon its plans for the forced relocation of Palestinian Bedouins in the West Bank. PNN reports that Wibisono condemned Israeli plans for the forcible removal of several Bedouin communities from their lands in the West […]
Israel: Court Permits Discriminatory Evictions of Palestinian-Israeli Villagers
Human Rights Watch | – Arab Villages in Israel, West Bank Face New Displacement (Jerusalem) – Separate Israeli Supreme Court decisions issued on May 5, 2015, open the way for state authorities to forcibly evict residents of two Arab villages from their homes. The inhabitants of both villages, one in Israel and the other in […]
Israel Pushes Negev Bedouin Palestinians into a Corner
By Ari Heistein | (Informed Comment) | – Israel’s latest move to demolish a Bedouin village and replace it with homes for Jewish citizens is no surprise to anyone familiar with the state’s policies in the Negev. Beginning in the 1970s, the State of Israel launched a campaign to push the Negev Bedouin from […]
Palestinian-Israelis: Hundreds pray outside closed mosque in Beersheba
BEERSHEBA (Ma’an) — Some 250 Palestinians performed Friday prayers outside a mosque in Beersheba in southern Israel that Israeli authorities have kept closed since 1948. The prayers came amid heavy Israeli police presence, with police sealing the roads leading toward the mosque. The initiative was called for by Sheikh Hassan Abu Ubeid from al-Ramla along […]
Religion in Israel: It’s the Government’s Business
By Shalom Goldman | (ISLAMICommentary) – Shalom Goldman Surveys of religious affiliation in the U.S. reveal that more than 25% of American have joined a faith other than the one in which they were raised. And if we factor in movement from one Protestant denomination to another, we find that 45% of Americans are affiliated […]
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