(Ma’an News Agency) – Immediately after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forged an alliance with the fringe political group, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), a widespread outrage ensued. The anger did not emanate only from the Center, Left and Arab parties, but from some in the Right as well. Even the pro-Israel lobby in the US, […]
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Middle East
Far-Right Netanyahu’s Blocking of a Palestinian State and anti-Iran Coalition are his Legacy
By David Mednicoff | – The upcoming indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could end the long-serving conservative politician’s career. But even an abrupt exit would leave his hawkish policies in the Middle East intact. The most serious allegation the prime minister faces is that he arranged for a telecommunications company to get a […]
As News of Khashoggi “Kebab” at Saudi Consulate Emerges, GOP Senators Condemn Trump Admin Briefing as Substanceless
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Patricia Zengerle of Reuters reports that even Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came away deeply disappointed with the briefing on the Khashoggi murder by low-level Trump administration officials from the Treasury Department and the State Department. The murder on October 2 at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul […]
Palestinian-Israelis Slam Racist Likud Party Slogan, Netanyahu Terrorist Ties
Israeli-Arab MK Ahmad Tibi has slammed the Likud party’s use of his name in its new slogan, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of incitement against the country’s Palestinian citizens. The new Likud slogan states that “It’s Either Bibi – or Tibi,” juxtaposing Netanyahu’s nickname with that of Tibi in a bid to garner support […]
Students, Faculty Blacklisted by Canary Mission for pro-Palestine Views
By Zayna Syed | Daily Staff Reporter | – (The Michigan Daily) – Student activists joke it’s the new Tinder. With the heavily detailed profiles, including pictures taken from Facebook, information on their family and details about their education, Canary Mission provides paragraphs-long biographies about fellow activists — data that simply cannot be found on […]
Israel Lobbies slam Ilhan Omar even as they Try to Bankrupt small Leftist Arkansas Paper over Israel Boycott
First-term Congresswoman Ilhan Omar refuses to back down on her criticism of the Washington Establishment for demanding that representatives “pledge allegiance” to Israel or risk being smeared as un-American. But she is right. The Israel lobbies that direct campaign money to representatives and senators insist that Israeli policy of imposing Jim Crow discrimination on Palestinians […]
Kushner’s New Ideas for Palestine are Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Old Ones
By Oraib Al-Rantawi @OraibAlRantawi | – Kushner’s new ideas are not different from Netanyahu’s old ones. The inexperienced US president’s son-in-law, with poor charisma, who, as a result of family connections, jumped to the top of the American leadership hierarchy and took over a handful of the most complex foreign policy files (the Palestinian issue […]
US Diplomats Visit US Citizen Reportedly Tortured by Saudi Government
Washington, DC (AFP) – US diplomats have visited a dual US-Saudi national who was reported to have been tortured while imprisoned in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, a top White House official said Sunday. The New York Times, citing the detailed account of an unnamed friend, said guards dragged Walid Fitaihi, a Harvard-trained doctor, to […]
New Gaza Health Crisis under Israeli Blockade: Superbug Epidemic
By Madlen Davies and Ben Stockton This story was published in partnership with: The Guardian. Read the story. (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) – Doctors in Gaza and the West Bank warn they are battling an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a growing problem in the world’s conflict zones and one that risks spilling over borders […]








