The 17-year-old icon of Palestinian resistance, Ahed Tamimi penned an emotional letter about her life in and after prison which was published in the October 2018 issue of Vogue Arabia.
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Palestine Information Center – October 7, 2018 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Israel’s war minister Avigdor Lieberman sent a letter to eight European ambassadors in Israel slamming them for a joint statement signed by their countries in which they criticized the Israeli government’s plan to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village. The ambassadors from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, […]
MEMO – October 6, 2018 The UN Works and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has expressed its concern about a statement made by Jerusalem’s mayor, Nir Barkat, that he would stop the organisation’s operations in the occupied city. UNRWA’s statement, a copy of which was sent to MEMO, said: “UNRWA conducts humanitarian operations in […]
WASHINGTON — The intention behind the Oslo Accords, one can argue, was made evident when, almost to the day on the 25th anniversary of the accords, the U.S. closed the PLO mission in Washington. The State Department cited the Palestinian failure to “advance the start of direct and meaningful negotiations with Israel,” according to a report in the The New Yorker.
If Americans Knew | October 5, 2018 Naftali Bennett, Israeli Minister of Education & Minister of Diaspora Affairs, announces social media “command center” which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze every single post on Facebook and Twitter, says it currently detects roughly 10,000 ‘antisemitic’ posts a day. However, because Israel has distorted the meaning […]
Seth Anziska’s new book on the Arab-Israeli “peace process” is a useful primer on the conflict, but it does not fully examine the paradox of the Carter administration’s solution that we are still living with, argues As’ad AbuKhalil. By As`ad…Read more →
If Americans Knew | October 5, 2018 Despite the fact that legislation to give Israel $38 billion over the next 10 years is still pending, the Trump administration is about to give Israel the first installment – $3.8 billion – for the 2019 fiscal year, which officially began Oct. 1st. This amounts to $7,230 per minute to […]
By Gilad Atzmon | October 4, 2018 Haaretz reveals today that Canary Mission a Hasbara defamation outlet that was established to “spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political dossiers on student supporters of Palestinian rights,” is funded by one of the largest Jewish charities in the U.S. According to Haaretz ; the Forward, […]
MEMO | October 4, 2018 Israeli settlers have occupied two Palestinian buildings near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. In the early hours of this morning, Israeli settlers stormed a building in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. According to Wafa, the “settlers moved into the building owned by the Joudeh family, which was […]
