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Interwoven struggles: the green paradox meets the Palestine paradox

Marwan Bishara Al-Jazeera  /  October 5, 2023 Marwan Bishara explains how and why the struggles for Palestinian liberation and climate justice became one and the same. The struggles for Palestinian liberation and climate justice have become intertwined, literally and figuratively, in philosophy as well...

Israelis kill four Palestinians in occupied West Bank confrontations – Huwara

Al-Jazeera  /  October 5, 2023 Two Palestinians killed in Huwara, south of Nablus, hours after two others were killed near . Four Palestinians have been killed in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, three at the hands of Israeli soldiers, and one...

Rights group warns of ‘sharp rise’ in violence against Palestinians by Jewish settlers

Middle East Monitor  /  October 5, 2023 An international human rights organization warned, on Thursday, of a “sharp increase” in violence by Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories “under the political cover of the government Israel”, Anadolu Agency reports. EuroMed Rights, a network of 68 human rights organizations, institutions and...

Jordan tells Israel to stop breaches at Al-Aqsa Mosque

The National  /  October 5, 2023 Amman protests against incursions by Jewish militants, settlers and politicians. Jordan has protested directly to Israel over a recent increase in Jewish worshippers entering Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said late on Wednesday. The kingdom has custodianship over the site, one of the holiest places...

PA calls for international intervention to stop settler attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque

Middle East Monitor  /  October 5, 2023 The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs as well as Palestinian factions called on Wednesday for international intervention to stop Israeli settler attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque, Anadolu has reported. “We renew our calls for an immediate international intervention to stop the settler violations, provocation...

Pope is ‘furious’ over anti-Christian attack by Jewish settlers

Middle East Monitor  /  October 6, 2023 The Pope is said to be “furious” over the wave of anti-Christian hate crimes carried out by Israeli settlers, the spokesman of the Council of Heads of Catholic Churches in Jerusalem, Wadie Abu Nasser, has said. Speaking to Israeli Army Radio yesterday, Abu Nasser...

[VIDEO] Extremist Minister Ben-Gvir opposes jailing ultra-orthodox who spit on Christians in Jerusalem, as...

Juan Cole Informed Comment  /  October 5, 2023 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli journalist Nir Hasson at Haaretz put a spotlight on the disturbing practice of some Ultra-Orthodox Israelis of eastern European heritage of spitting on Christians in Jerusalem. The incident concerned what appeared to be Filipino pilgrims carrying a cross,...

‘I’m a Palestinian’: former Israeli PM Golda Meir

Nasim Ahmed Middle East Monitor  /  October 5, 2023 Israel has long propagated a narrative of endless victimization to justify its crimes and evade accountability. This carefully-crafted narrative depicts the occupation state as a small, vulnerable nation constantly threatened by hostile neighbours. While this victimhood myth has been promoted...

For Palestinian Americans, Israel entering the Visa Waiver Program is a disappointment

James Zogby The National  /  November 5, 2023 Arab Americans who supported Biden feel they deserve better. I received a call last week from a senior official in US President Joe Biden's administration giving me a heads-up that the next morning the US was going to formally announce that Israel was...

Israel blocks families from burying dead prisoners

Yasmin Abusayma The Electronic Intifada  /  October 5, 2023 When Suad al-Amour visited her son Sami in jail during 2021, she did not realize it would be for the last time. Sami appeared relatively well on that occasion. Yet his health deteriorated over the next few months. Born with a heart...