US versus BDS
By Blake Alcott The US House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 23, “resolved” by a vote of 398-17 that it “opposes the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) targeting Israel.” As the Palestine Chronicle […]
Year: 2019
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Calls on Israel to Conduct Investigation into Shooting of Palestinian Child
The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, called on the Israeli authorities to conduct a thorough, effective, impartial and independent investigation into the Israeli forces’ shooting of nine-year-old Palestinian child, […]
Israel to Build 6,000 New Settlement Units
Israel’s Security Cabinet has been discussing a plan to approve 6,000 settlement units in “Area C” of the occupied Palestinian territories, Haaretz reported today. According to the Israeli public broadcasting corporation Kan, it was “unclear whether the […]
Israeli Police Summon 4-Year-Old Palestinian for Interrogation (VIDEO)
Israel has summoned a four-year-old Palestinian boy from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya for interrogation. Muhammad Rabi’ Elayyan was summoned by dozens of Israeli police officers from his home in Issawiya – a Palestinian neighborhood […]
The Road to EU Diplomacy in Palestine
By Ramona Wadi Yesterday, the EU issued two press releases. One feigned belated concern at Israel’s demolition of Palestinian dwellings in Sur Baher and how the settlement expansion policy “undermines the viability of the two-state solution”. The […]
Egypt, Israel Consider $15bn Natural Gas Facility in Sinai
Egypt and Israel are mulling constructing a $10-15 billion liquefaction facility on the Red Sea in Sinai for export to Asia, reports the Globes, following a visit to Egypt by the Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz […]
Arab-Israeli Party Balad Agrees to Run with Joint List
Ahead of this week’s deadline to declare electoral slates, Arab-Israeli party Balad has agreed to join the other three Palestinian factions to once again run as the Joint List in Israel’s September 17 election. Balad’s […]
Israel to Present $14m Plan to Help Foreign Embassies Move to Jerusalem
Israel’s Foreign Ministry is preparing a plan worth 50 million shekels ($14.2m) to help countries move their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel Hayom reported yesterday. Described as a “national diplomatic and strategic goal of the […]
Netanyahu: Israel’s Arrow-3 Missile Shield Passes US Trials
Israel’s US-backed Arrow-3 ballistic missile shield has passed a series of live interception tests over Alaska, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, casting the achievement as a warning to Iran. Jointly manufactured by US […]
Israel’s Electricity Company Takes $141m in Confiscated Palestinian Taxes
Israel’s electricity company has been approved by the Finance Ministry to collect half a billion shekels ($ 141 million) from Palestinian tax money collected by Israel, a Hebrew economic newspaper reported on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. According […]
Real Madrid Players Refuse to Work with Israeli ‘Mossad’ Software
Israeli media reported on Sunday that footballers from Spain’s Real Madrid football club have refused to work with a fitness coach, because of his use of software developed by experts at the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ […]
Vancouver City Council Won’t Set Precedent in Endorsing IHRA Definition
By Marion Kawas The City of Vancouver, Canada might seem to be an odd place for a battle over the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of Anti-Semitism. But that is exactly what happened in […]
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in Weekly Gaza Protest (VIDEO)
A Palestinian man has been killed by Israeli army fire during a weekly protest in the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry in the besieged enclave. The ministry said on Saturday that Ahmed al-Qarra, 23, died “as […]
Palestinians Continue to Protest against work Restrictions in Lebanon (VIDEO)
For the second Friday, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon protested against Lebanese work restrictions imposed on them, Quds Press reported. Thousands of refugees in Lebanon took part in the “widest” and “largest” protests since […]
Israeli Forces Attack Protesters in Newly Demolished Jerusalem area
Israeli occupation forces yesterday attacked Palestinian protesters in the Wadi Al-Hummus neighborhood of the occupied Jerusalem town of Sur Baher, Ma’an reported. The protesters gathered on both sides of the illegal Israeli Separation Wall and held […]
Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Dying to Forget – Oil, Power, Palestine, & the Foundations of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Irene L. Gendzier. Columbia University Press, New York, 2017.) Many books discuss the transition of […]
Gaza’s Universities: Financial Crisis Threatens Continuity of Work
Palestinian universities in the Gaza Strip are suffering from a severe financial crisis that threatens the continuity of their work next year, academics and university administrators said on Thursday. On the sidelines of a meeting […]
Abbas Declares Suspension of All Deals with Israel
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has announced the suspension of all agreements signed with Israel. The 84-year-old’s declaration on Thursday came after an emergency meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the wake of Israel’s demolition this week of several […]
Israel Releases Palestinian Writer Lama Khater from Prison
Israeli authorities have today released Palestinian writer and journalist Lama Khater after she served a 13-month jail sentence. Hazem Al-Fakhouri, Khater’s husband, said that she was released by the authorities in the north of the […]
Israeli Official: ‘Security Coordination’ with PA Never Been Better
An unnamed Israeli security source told Al-Monitor this week that the “network of security coordination” with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the occupied West Bank has never been better. The remarks come as PA President Mahmoud Abbas […]
Left-Leaning Israeli Parties Unite to ‘Counter Netanyahu’
A trio of forces in the Israeli opposition are uniting ahead of upcoming elections in hope of unseating incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Meretz, the new party of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and senior Labor Party […]
Israel Begins Deportation of Filipino Workers, Children
Israel has begun rounding up scores of Filipino workers and their Israel-born children for deportation, prompting large-scale protests outside the prime minister’s residence and at the country’s Ben Gurion Airport. After Israel’s Population and Immigration […]
Israeli Supreme Court Delays Deportation Hearing for HRW Director
Israel’s Supreme Court has delayed a landmark hearing which would have seen the Regional Director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Omar Shakir, deported from Israel over his alleged support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]
Israel Arrests 16 Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli forces detained 16 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the military on Thursday, Anadolu reports. A military statement said the individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror […]
Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
By Ramzy Baroud Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq’s photograph, lying face down on the road, […]
US Passes Bills against BDS and Hamas (VIDEO)
The US House of Representatives passed a resolution yesterday to sanction Hamas and another to oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. House Resolution 1850 entitled “Palestinian International Terrorism Support Prevention Act of 2019” would […]
The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives
By Kathy Kelly “I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk” – Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew […]
Palestinians Drive Saudi Pro-Israel Blogger out of Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound (VIDEOS)
A Saudi pro-Israel blogger visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem as part of an Israeli-sponsored trip has been driven out of the site by Palestinians. Arab normalization with Israel is largely regarded as taboo, as it […]
Greenblatt: Palestinian Capital in Jerusalem Is ‘Aspiration Not a Right’
US Special Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, has said that the creation of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem is an “aspiration not a right”. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council yesterday, Greenblatt said that […]
Poll: Majority of Israelis Oppose Ceasefire with Palestinian factions in Gaza
A majority of Israelis oppose the ceasefire agreement currently in place between Israel and Palestinian factions in the occupied Gaza Strip, according to a poll reported by Arutz Sheva. The poll was commissioned by the hard-right […]
