(MEE) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair, tweeted on Sunday that Facebook blocked his page for 24 hours over apparent anti-Muslim posts and called the leading social network a “dictatorship”. In a message posted on Thursday on his Facebook page after deadly Palestinian attacks, Yair Netanyahu, 27, had posted: “all Muslims leave” Israel, AFP reported. […]
(MPN) — After his UN Speech marking the International Day of Solidarity with Palestine last week was twisted so as to smear him as an anti-Semite, Marc Lamont Hill was subjected to a “political lynching” that saw him fired from his role as a political commentator on CNN and will now see Temple University — his other employer — investigate whether […]
(CD) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing calls to resign after Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting him and his wife on fraud and bribery charges. It’s the third such recommendation to hit the prime minister this year. The New York Times lays out the alleged wrongdoing: Between 2012 and 2017, the police said, Mr. Netanyahu “intervened in a blatant and ongoing manner, […]
(MEE) — Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib has become just the second US lawmaker to express support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. “I personally support the BDS movement,” Tlaib said in an interview with The Intercept news website published on Monday. “I want us to see that segregation and how that has really harmed […]
(MEMO) — US President Donald Trump has admitted that the US only keeps its troops in the Middle East to protect Israel. In an interview with the Washington Post yesterday, Trump explained that he would not withdraw US troops from the region because of the need to support Israel, despite the fact that other US concerns such as oil […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has confirmed recent reports that he is the one who placed a hold on a major bill providing $38 billion in US military aid to Israel. Sen. Paul says he intends to introduce an amendment to the bill. Sen. Paul said the move is a reaction to pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC’s resistance to […]
(MEMO) — Israel has demolished 30 commercial and residential Palestinian-owned properties in occupied Jerusalem since the start of November, a report from the Palestine Liberation Organisation revealed on Saturday. The report was issued by the Negotiations Department of the PLO. The Israeli occupation authorities apparently demolished 17 commercial facilities on 21 November in Shuafat. According to Al Jazeera, […]
(MEMO) — According to Defence for Children International Palestine (DCIP), since the beginning of the year, the Israeli Occupation Forces have killed 52 children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 46 of whom in the Gaza Strip. The international movement said in a statement on Monday that among the children the occupation forces have killed, 18 […]
(MEE) — Home rental company Airbnb has announced it plans to remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that comes after several years of pressure from Palestinian human rights groups. The US-based company said it currently has about 200 listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and made its decision after […]
(FAIR) — In a piece headlined “Deadly Gaza Raid by Israel Threatens Nascent Ceasefire” (11/11/18), the New York Times described an Israeli assault near the city of Khan Yunis that killed seven Palestinians as the first known Israeli ground incursion into Gaza since Operation Protective Edge, in July 2014, set off a seven-week war. This depiction of the attack as […]
