A 14-year-old Mauritanian chess player has pulled out of the Junior World Cup because the draw set him up to face an Israeli player, Middle East Monitor reported on Wednesday. “I decided to retire, because […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is to visit Morocco next week, the two countries said Friday, in the first trip to the kingdom by Israel’s top diplomat since they normalized ties. A source at Morocco’s […]
Algerian and international media outlets have reported that Algeria has officially begun forming an African block to reject Israel’s membership in the African Union. The online newspaper Rai Al-Youm reported that South Africa, Tunisia, Eritrea, […]
By Ramona Wadi Following the signing of last year’s Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, the international community woke up to the normalisation of Israel’s colonization of Palestine; nobody seemed to be particularly averse […]
A decision by Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister, Tamar Zandberg, to freeze a major oil deal with the UAE to Israel might lead to ties between the two countries being severed, UAE officials have warned. The […]
El Al Israel Airlines on Sunday launched nonstop flights to Marrakesh from Tel Aviv following a resumption of diplomatic ties last year between Morocco and Israel, reports Reuters. Flight 553 took off at 11:35 a.m. […]
The International Judo Federation suspended on Saturday Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine and his coach Amar Benikhlef for withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics before his event started, after the draw set him on course for a […]
Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine has reportedly withdrawn from the Tokyo Olympics before competing after the draw set him on course for a possible match-up against an Israeli opponent. Nourine was set to face Sudanese judoka […]
Israeli media revealed that the UAE’s embassy will be opened in Tel Aviv on Wednesday after the two countries normalized relations last year. The inauguration will take place in the presence of Israeli President Isaac […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah II yesterday received Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at his residence in the country’s capital Amman to discuss regional developments. An official source told Israel’s Walla that Bennett had stressed his country’s […]
The US has ended its financial support for the Abraham Fund indefinitely, according to sources who spoke with Israeli media outlet Globes. The cancellation of the fund by the Biden administration comes at a time […]
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday began the first-ever official visit by an Israeli minister to the United Arab Emirates, after the two nations normalized ties in September. Lapid tweeted a picture of himself […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next week, in the first such trip by a top Israeli diplomat to the Gulf state since the countries agreed to normalize ties […]
A high-level delegation from the Palestinian movement Hamas, led by the chief of the movement’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh, arrived on Monday in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott following a five-day visit to Morocco. A Hamas […]
Israel is willing to work towards establishing ties with Southeast Asia’s Muslim majority nations, its ambassador to Singapore said yesterday. The announcement comes despite their condemnation of Israel’s airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip last […]
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has told Al-Jazeera that the Hirak protest movement saved the state thanks to its peaceful nature. In his first interview with the broadcaster, Tebboune also criticized the normalization agreements between Arab […]
Moroccan activists have launched a campaign calling for the expulsion of the head of Israel’s Liaison Office in Rabat, David Govrin. Activists took to Facebook and Twitter using the Arabic hashtag ‘expel the representative of […]
In an interview with French magazine Le Point, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that Algeria will never normalize ties with Israel. Tebboune said that he is not considering running for a second term, adding that […]
An extremist Israeli group has requested the UAE ambassador to Israel join them on a raid of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Mohamed Al Khajah was sent a letter by the Temple Mount Heritage Fund group calling […]
By Benay Blend “If 15/20 years ago we had listened to ‘serious moderate’ voices telling us to support ‘two-state solution,’ not call out Israeli apartheid and not push BDS,” tweeted journalist Ali Abunimah, “where would […]
By Ramona Wadi Known for belatedly spouting known truths, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was true to form in his address to the J Street conference recently, which revealed the extent of his collaboration with the international […]
Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis met with the designated ambassador and head of the Moroccan Embassy yesterday to discuss the results of normalizing ties and advancing further cooperation with each other. Akunis assured Abdel […]
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is calling for a boycott of the first-ever art exhibition of Israeli artists in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which opened recently at […]
By Mohamed El Metmari This critical essay deconstructs the political narrative surrounding the naturalization agreements that have occurred between some Arab countries and Israel formally known as the Abrahamic Accords or Jared Kushner’s plan for […]
By Benay Blend “To be liberated,” writes Rima Najjar, “Palestine must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to Israel, but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.” In a January […]
Normalization with Israel would bring “tremendous benefit” to the region, the Saudi foreign minister has said, but such an accord with the kingdom would depend on progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Under the “Abraham […]
By Ramona Wadi The Trump era is over, or so the Middle East Quartet would have us believe. Now that the Zionist colonization project is back to contending diplomatically with the two-state compromise, the main […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to bring about direct flights from Israel to Saudi Arabia if reelected on March 23. “I’m going to bring you direct flights from Tel Aviv to Mecca,” Netanyahu […]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced yesterday that it was setting up a $10 billion investment fund aimed at strategic sectors in Israel. The two countries normalized relations last year in what was seen as […]
Jordan today refused to allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through its airspace on his way to the UAE for his first official visit to the Emirates following the signing of peace accords […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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