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Middle East Monitor

Israel/ Palestine
Ilhan Omar Calls out DC Double Standards, insists on Palestinian Rights in their Homeland

Ilhan Omar Calls out DC Double Standards, insists on Palestinian Rights in their Homeland

Middle East Monitor

US Congressman Ilhan Omar has called on America to put human rights, justice, and peace at the centre of its foreign policy and cited examples in the Middle East where she said: “Washington has failed to apply these universal values to all nations”. “I believe in an inclusive foreign policy—one that centers on human rights, […]

Israel/ Palestine
As Boycott over Apartheid Spreads, South Africa to Downgrade Israel Diplomatic Mission

As Boycott over Apartheid Spreads, South Africa to Downgrade Israel Diplomatic Mission

Middle East Monitor

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that his government is planning to downgrade its diplomatic mission to Israel. This, he said, comes in response to recommendations from the National Conference of the National African Party which was held more than a year ago, Safa news agency reported yesterday. Speaking before the parliament, Ramaphosa said […]

Israel/ Palestine
Forgotten Palestinian Women of Jerusalem Struggling for their Rights as World Commemorated Women

Forgotten Palestinian Women of Jerusalem Struggling for their Rights as World Commemorated Women

Middle East Monitor

On International Women’s Rights Day, which falls on 8 March every year, we need to take a moment to look at whether all women are able to exercise all of their rights around the world. Are women’s rights limited to specific countries, while those elsewhere continue to suffer from oppression and discrimination? Are there women […]

Israel/ Palestine
Trump Humiliates Palestinians by Closing Consulate, Dealing with them Via US Embassy to Israel

Trump Humiliates Palestinians by Closing Consulate, Dealing with them Via US Embassy to Israel

Middle East Monitor

The US State Department announced on Tuesday that it is going to merge the American consulate general in East Jerusalem with the American embassy in West Jerusalem. A statement published on the embassy website in Israel said that, “We will continue to conduct all of the diplomatic and consular functions previously performed by the US […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian-Israelis Slam Racist Likud Party Slogan, Netanyahu Terrorist Ties

Palestinian-Israelis Slam Racist Likud Party Slogan, Netanyahu Terrorist Ties

Middle East Monitor

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 […]

Israel/ Palestine
Kushner's New Ideas for Palestine are Israeli PM Netanyahu's Old Ones

Kushner’s New Ideas for Palestine are Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Old Ones

Middle East Monitor

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 […]

Israel/ Palestine
Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Do Israel Pharmaceutical Firms Test Medicines on Palestinian Prisoners?

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has charged that the Israeli occupation authorities issues permits to large pharmaceutical firms to carry out tests on Palestinian and Arab prisoners, Felesteen.ps reported. The Times of Israel also reported that in a recording from the event the Hebrew University lecturer also revealed that the Israeli military firms are testing weapons […]

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Bernie Sanders returns Palestine to the Center of Political Debate in the US

Middle East Monitor

By Ray Hanania | – Last month, leading Israeli journalist Tal Schneider told a teleconference hosted by Americans for Peace Now that the issue of the occupation and Palestinian rights has almost vanished from the Israeli political conversation. In previous years, it loomed heavy over nearly every election campaign. The shift in Israeli politics has […]

Israel/ Palestine
European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

European Union has Documented Israeli War Crimes, but When Will it Punish Them?

Middle East Monitor

By Kamel Hawwash | – The lack of action to bring Israel to account for more than seven decades’ worth of crimes against the Palestinian people is obvious. “Enough is enough” is an overused phrase, but in the case of the people of occupied Palestine, it does not even scratch the surface in terms of […]

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