MEMO | December 17, 2018 A member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, called on Sunday for the President of the Palestinian Authority to have his head “chopped off”. Oren Hazzan MK made the comment about Mahmoud Abbas, as well as his Deputy, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, during a march held by illegal settlers in Jerusalem, Maan […]
Palestine Chronicle | December 17, 2018 Facebook has briefly blocked the page of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s son, Yair after he shared previously banned content calling for “all Muslims [to] leave” Israel. In a message posted Thursday on his Facebook page, after the latest flare-up in violence saw at least five Palestinians and three […]
By Blake Alcott | Palestine Chronicle | December 17, 2018 In what is written and said about Israel and Palestine the word ‘occupation’ is ubiquitous. But what territory, exactly, is the ethnocratic state occupying? Is it just the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, or all of Palestine? Everybody agrees that the territories Israel took […]
A protester holds a placard as she stands next to Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israeli settlements in West Bank city on December 27, 2014. (Reuters) By Kathryn Shihadah | If Americans Knew | December 17, 2018 Elderly women, families, children, and of course young men in the occupied Palestinian territories are regularly treated […]
Photo Source Flisadam Pointer | CC BY 2.0 By Susan Abulhawa | CounterPunch | December 17, 2018 Temple University’s administration announced the unsurprising news that it has found no grounds to punish or investigate Professor Marc Lamont Hill for his speech at the United Nations on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with […]
RT | December 17, 2018 A Texas elementary school speech pathologist has filed a federal lawsuit after her school district refused to renew her contract unless she signed a pro-Israel oath. Bahia Amawi has worked for the Pflugerville Independent School District since 2009 on a contract basis. Each year when it came to the time […]
With opinion now evenly split between those who favour a one or two-state solution, many in the US are turning their attention to the systemic inequities faced by Palestinians By Jonathon Cook | The National | December 17, 2018 Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to […]
Nazareth: Two years of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu as a Middle East peacemaking team appear to be having a transformative effect – and in ways that will please neither of them. The American public is now evenly split between those who want a two-state solution and those who prefer a single state, shared by Israelis and Palestinians, according to[Read More...]
Palestine Information Center – December 16, 2018 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation is scheduled to discuss a new bill imposing a one-year prison sentence on individuals who raise Palestinian flags during demonstrations, according to Haaretz. Drafted by MK Anat Berko, the bill stipulates that any gathering of at least of three people […]
MEMO | December 16, 2018 An Israeli settler opened fire on Sunday outside two schools in the West Bank, as other settlers rampaged through the street under the protection of Israeli forces, reports Wafa News Agency. The schools are at the entrance to the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, to the south of Nablus in the […]
