On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as ‘terrorist organizations’. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular […]
The British government’s discredited Home Secretary Priti Patel has once again emerged as Israel’s leading in-house lobbyist. Though her credibility was severely dented when as UK Aid Minister she had to resign in 2017 following […]
A one-time confidante to Benjamin Netanyahu began testifying against him Monday in the former Israeli prime minister’s corruption trial in Jerusalem, The New Arab reported. Nir Hefetz, a former spokesman for Netanyahu, is a key […]
Palestinian prisoner Ayad Al-Harimi has suspended his hunger strike after 61 days after Israeli occupation authorities agreed to release him on March 4, 2022, the Middle East Monitor reported. The 34-year-old was recently transferred from […]
Seventy prominent writers, poets, and playwrights from several continents have signed a letter endorsing Sally Rooney’s decision to turn down an offer with an Israel publishing house, describing it as “an exemplary response to the […]
A Palestinian was killed on Sunday in occupied East Jerusalem, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Anadolu Agency reported. Israeli police claimed in a statement that four Israelis, including two settlers, were injured when a Palestinian […]
Israeli occupation authorities on Saturday handed over the body of slain Amjad Abu Sultan, a 16-year-old Palestinian minor who was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beit Jala in the occupied […]
Palestine, on Friday, welcomed a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly that affirms Palestinian sovereignty over its natural resources, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki said: “The voting […]
The UK will designate Hamas as a terror organization, making support for it in the country punishable by up to ten years in jail, the Guardian has reported. Under plans due to be announced by […]
Israeli police Thursday night conducted a massive raid in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, resulting in dozens of injuries, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Local and medical sources told WAFA that scores […]
Omar Abu Assab, a 16-year-old schoolboy from the town of Issawiyah, just outside of Jerusalem, was killed by Israeli forces in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, The New Arab reported. Israel claims he attempted to […]
Children in Gaza held a vigil on Thursday demanding that the international community pressure Israeli authorities to release Palestinian minors in Israeli prisons, Anadolu News Agency reports. “We demand the intervention of the international community […]
Executive officer at the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (Toronto) Jason Kunin recently posted to Facebook: “It seems that as a result of Desmond Cole’s unscripted calls of ‘Free Palestine’ during a TDSB [Toronto District […]
I was sitting on my couch when my phone rang. It was my uncle, Hassan. He told me that there was a bedouin wedding just outside Gaza City and asked if I wanted to attend […]
(Contested Lands: A History of the Middle East since the First World War. T. G. Fraser. Haus Publishing, London, 2021.) It is a daunting task to write a history of any region over a period […]
A deal between Israel and Jordan that will see an exchange of solar power and freshwater between the two countries is expected to be signed next week, according to Haaretz. The terms of the agreement […]
High poverty rates among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have exacerbated the child labor phenomenon, the Palestinian Association for Human Rights “Witness” said on Wednesday. The foundation said in a report that school dropouts, the additional […]
Palestinian NGOs on Wednesday called for boycotting American envoy to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield over her decision not to meet with representatives of the six Palestinian NGOs banned by Israel, a statement said. This came […]
Palestinian prisoner Sami al-Amour died Thursday morning in an Israeli prison due to deliberate medical negligence, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS said in a press statement that al-Amour, 39 – a resident […]
More than 100 celebrities have signed an open letter to condemn Israel’s decision to label six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as ‘terrorist organizations’, Sky News reported. The signatories of the letter include Susan Sarandon, […]
The revelation, a few years ago, that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been conducting mass surveillance on millions of Americans has reignited the conversation on governments’ misconduct and their violation of human rights […]
Over the past two months, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip has repeatedly warned of the dangers of running out of the hormone erythropoietin, which helps treat patients with kidney failure and […]
Israeli soldiers have forcibly awakened 13 Palestinian children in the middle of the night and illegally photographed them during a raid in the West Bank, according to the Israeli rights group, B’Tselem. A video posted […]
Jewish settlers attacked with stones Palestinian vehicles passing near the entrance of the illegal Jewish settlement of Beit El, northeast of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
Undercover Israeli forces have detained three Palestinian youths in the north of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, as a shooting was reported at an Israeli army checkpoint in the area, the official Palestinian News […]
Photographs hung across Israeli cities showing Palestinians threatened by Israeli expulsion were vandalized only mere hours after activists put them up. Many of the photographs included children with the caption: “Their entire school is ordered […]
Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies announced on November 13 the launch of its inaugural issue on “The Meaning of Colonization in the 21st Century”. The journal’s first issue is edited by Peter Trnka and […]
Dozens of schoolgirls suffocated on Tuesday morning when Israeli soldiers fired teargas at them as they were heading to their school in al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the […]
The Palestinian Authority yesterday called on the United Nations Security Council and Human Rights Council to intervene to release former Palestinian aid worker in the occupied Gaza Strip, Mohammed Al-Halabi. In an official statement, the […]
A Palestinian young man was shot dead on Tuesday morning by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank town of Tammoon, in the northern occupied Jordan Valley, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The […]
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