Middle East

Slo-Mo Ethnic Cleansing: Israel has forced 3,000 Palestinians from their Jerusalem Homes in 15 Years

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem revealed that Israeli authorities forced around 3,000 Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem between 2004 and 2019. B’Tselem published a report, stating, “The Jerusalem Municipality demolished 830 residential units, and 120 more were demolished by their owners on the municipality’s orders.” B’Tselem stressed, “The municipality […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestinians are Suing the Illegal Israeli Squatters who List Stolen Property on AirBnB

Middle East Monitor

By Asa Winstanley | @AsaWinstanley | – Last year, AirBnB declared that it would withdraw listings on its site from Israeli settlers based in Jew-only colonies in the West Bank. All such colonial-settlements are illegal under international law. The move came after years of campaigning by Palestine solidarity activists. The effect of their efforts was […]

Israel/ Palestine

Israel Raids, Stops Solar Panel Installation in Palestinian Jordan Valley

Maan News Agency

TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities delivered a stop-construction notice to solar panels, in the northern Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, ordering halt of construction, on Monday. Mutaz Bisharat, a Palestinian official in charge of Jordan Valley’s Israeli settlements file at the Palestinian Authority (PA), said that the Israeli authorities raided the area and […]

Featured

In our National Interest? 250K Yemenis now Starving to Death, with 233K already dead in Trump-Backed War

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s policy in Yemen might best be described as “malign neglect.” The US is giving strategic and logistical support, and above all political legitimacy to a brutal war being waged on little Yemen by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and their coalition allies (though that group seems to be […]

Saudi Arabia

Saudis Accused of Serious Crimes Aided in Fleeing US as Officials Turn Blind Eye

ProPublica

By Sebastian Rotella and Tim Golden (ProPublica), with Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian/OregonLive This story was co-published with The Oregonian/OregonLive. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi […]

Sudan

Sudan: How Protestors Carved out a Space to Challenge Dictatorship

The Conversation

By Amira Osman | – Where there is revolution, there’s a central gathering point – just think of Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Taksim Square in Istanbul and Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunisia. They all captured the world’s imagination as places where the power of the masses couldn’t be ignored. As an architect who studies urban public […]

Iran

Trump appointee Bolton inventing a new “Axis of Evil,” including Iran, to put US on War Footing

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Bolton’s broadsides against Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela hint at ambitions for much more dangerous geopolitical conflict — and nothing short of a new Cold War. If you’re in the market for a troika of tyranny, Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo certainly fit the bill. Or, if you’d […]

Israel/ Palestine

Palestine, International Law, and a Radically Just Future

Noura Erekat

By Noura Erakat Introduction Al-Shabaka – In her new book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Noura Erakat breaks new ground in her approach to international law as it pertains to Palestine. Analysts have generally considered the law in this context as either essentially beneficent if deployed properly, or […]

Green Energy

Emirates aiming for 30% Renewables by 2030; Good for an Oil State, but not Nearly Enough for Paris

Global Voices

By Sania Aziz Rahman | – (Globalvoices.org) – UAE wants to get 30% of energy from clean energy by 2030 Posted 23 April 2019 22:15 GMT A parabolic trough which collects solar heat in Abu Dhabi called “Shams 1″. Image credit: Masdar via Flickr In January, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published a report […]