Israel/ Palestine

Sanders, AOC, Tlaib Threaten to Cut Israeli Funding if Netanyahu Annexes 1/3 of Palestinian West Bank

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Progressive members of Congress will circulate a letter on Tuesday threatening US funding for Israel if the Netanyahu government proceeds with its plans to steal one third of the Palestinian West Bank in July. Hassan Abbas at The Arab-American saw an advance copy of the letter. The letter to secretary […]

Epidemics

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Palestinian Farmers Struggle against Annexation and the Pandemic

Open Democracy

By Salena Fay Tramel | – ( Opendemocracy.net ) – It has not been an easy year for Palestinians, if there ever was such a thing. With the turn of a new decade in January, the U.S. administration unveiled the paradoxically branded “deal of the century” plan—calling for Israel to unilaterally annex about a third […]

Israel/ Palestine

As Palestinians Brace for Annexation, Does Nonviolent Protest Work? Juan Cole on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Juan Cole

Ralph Nader Radio Hour Does Non-Violent Protest Work? Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent essayist and Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His work seeks to put the relationship between the West and the Muslim world into a historical context. He had written about the upheavals in the Arab World since 2011. […]

Israel/ Palestine

Colonial Violence: Ahmed Erekat was Killed at Israeli Checkpoint in Palestine on way to Sister’s Wedding

Ramona Wadi

( Middle East Monitor) – For Palestinians, Israel’s military checkpoints are made for its colonial violence and perpetual dehumanisation of the occupied population. In the latest grotesque spectacle of extrajudicial killing, Ahmed Erekat, a 27 year old Palestinian man and nephew of the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Secretary General Saeb Erekat, was killed by Israeli soldiers […]

Israel/ Palestine

Will Biden Remain Tone Deaf to Palestinian Rights?

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

( Codepink) – Joe Biden wants you to believe that he is opposed to Israel’s likely annexation of parts of the West Bank that Netanyahu plans to carry out in July. “I do not support annexation,” he said during a call with American Jewish donors on June 16. But only a month ago, Biden senior […]

Israel/ Palestine

In Search of a Game Changer — Beyond Apartheid: Israel, Palestine, and Annexation

Moshe Behar

By Moshe Behar | – In this essay, Moshe Behar reflects on what the possible endgame is for the Israeli annexation of Palestinian land that is now being explored with the support of the American government. He suggests that Israel’s long-term objective goes beyond de facto or de jure apartheid. Behar concludes that two actions […]

Featured

PM Netanyahu’s son Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian-Israelis from Tel Aviv

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the US and even Israel have seen Black Lives Matter protests, Yair Netanyahu, 28, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu– who lives in the prime minister’s residence– called on Sunday for Israelis of Palestinian descent to be expelled from Tel Aviv. https://t.co/PVev5KoWo9 submitted by /u/appstools232323 [link] [comments] […]

Israel/ Palestine

Is the ‘Boycott Israel’ (BDS) Movement Poised for a Big Expansion as Annexation of Palestine Looms?

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor) – The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) had a landmark legal victory against Israel last week. The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously against the convictions of Palestinian-rights campaigners by French courts for BDS protests they staged more than a decade ago. In September 2009 and May 2010, the […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel: Is Netanyahu Poised to Annex 1/3 of Palestinian W. Bank by Fiat, w/out Trump, Parliament?

Middle East Monitor

By Bilal Daher | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The US administration has suspended talks with the Israeli government on the plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, due to the dispute over the plan and its implementation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and leaders of the Blue and White […]