Israel/ Palestine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A prosecutor on the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has opened an investigation into Israeli and Hamas war crimes, drawing a furious response from caretaker Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Palestine filed the case in some large part because of the Trump administration’s brutal policies against the Palestinians, in which […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel is hoarding the Jordan River – The Palestinians and Jordan Need their Share

The Conversation

By Mark Zeitoun and Muna Dajani | – Two areas farmed by Israelis for more than 50 years have recently been returned to neighbouring Jordan. The first, al Ghamr (known in Israel as Zofar), is located south of the Dead Sea in the Naqab/Negev desert. The second, al Baqura (Naharayim) is found at the fertile […]

Israel/ Palestine

The Likud Gov’t in Israel’s International War against Human Rights

Asa Winstanley

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel has a long record of camouflaging the truth where Palestine is concerned. Integral to this, in recent years, has been the growing war against human rights groups documenting Israel’s abuses against Palestinians and other Arabs. Israel’s hostility towards such groups is targeted, first and foremost, against Palestinians themselves. […]

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The Miseries of Settler Colonialism: Jeff Goldberg thinks Israelis are the Seminoles

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss, the most lucid and informed voice on the American Jewish left doing journalism critical of right wing Zionism, reports on remarks of The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg at a Jewish Community Center forum in Manhattan. In Weiss’s telling, Goldberg argued to his audience that Israelis are […]

Israel/ Palestine

How the Israel Army Muzzles Free Expression for Palestinians

Human Rights Watch

52 Years into Occupation, Peaceful Protest, Waving Flags Still Criminalized

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Israeli Blockade of Gaza Causing Contaminated Water, 25% of Illnesses and 12% of Infant Deaths

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Abeer Butmeh writes at Al Jazeera English that because of the Israeli blockade on Gaza, equipment for water purification has not been imported and 97% of the Strip’s water is now polluted. Gaza has a population of about 2 million, equivalent to that of the entire state of Nebraska. Only […]

Israel/ Palestine

Outlaw State: Israel Accelerates Colonization of Palestinian West Bank 3 Years after UN Security Council Condemnation

Ramzy Baroud

(Middle East Monitor ) – Three years ago, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334. With fourteen members voting in favour and one abstention, the Resolution was the equivalent of a political earthquake. Indeed, it was the first time in many years that the international body roundly condemned Israel for its illegal settlement policies […]

Donald Trump

Patronizing Jews and Persecuting Palestinians: The Trump Executive Order

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring Judaism to be a nationality is both a gross act of anti-Semitism, and an attack on free speech. The alleged intent is to combat rising anti-Semitism on college campuses, by requiring the schools to treat the Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) movement and other advocacy […]

Israel/ Palestine

War Crime: Israel’s Forceful Removal of Thousands of Negev Bedouin

Middle East Monitor

By Megan Giovannetti | – Israeli rights group Adalah, which seeks legal justice for Palestinian citizens of Israel, issued an in-depth report on 10 December breaking down the illegality of Israel’s recent advancement in the forceful removal of thousands of Bedouin in the Negev (referred to as ‘Naqab’ by Bedouin) desert. The report, issued on […]