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To what extent did the spycops target Palestine solidarity groups ?

Asa Winstanley Middle East Monitor  /  November 7, 2020 This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was first formally announced by then Home Secretary Theresa May. The inquiry is investigating the...

Female Palestine teacher wins Global Teacher Award 2020

Middle East Monitor  /  November 7, 2020 Palestinian teacher Asma Mustafa has won the Global Teacher Award 2020, Palestinian news agencies reported. Asma Mustafa, an English Teacher in Halima Al Saadia Intermediate School for Girls, north of the besieged Gaza Strip, graduated from the English language department at the...

Former Saudi intelligence chief: Biden to disappoint Palestinians

Middle East Monitor  /  November 7, 2020 Former Chief of Saudi Intelligence Services Turki al-Faisal has announced that if Joe Biden becomes US president, he will disappoint Palestinians regarding their struggle with Israel, Al-Arabiya news website reported on Thursday. Speaking at the Beirut Forum in Abu-Dhabi, Al-Faisal conveyed that Biden...

Biden’s victory to put Netanyahu in crisis

Middle East Monitor  /  November 7, 2020 US President Donald Trump’s defeat would not affect Israel, but could put Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in crisis, Israeli analyst Sima Kadmon conveyed on Friday. “If Trump is defeated, the Israeli prime minister would face a strong slap, not Israel,” Kadmon...

Leaders in the Middle East react to Joe Biden winning the US election

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  November 7, 2020 Countries such as Egypt and the UAE, which had warm ties with the Trump administration, were among the first to welcome the announcement. Leaders in the Midde East have begun congratulating Joe Biden on winning the US election after several media outlets...

Five ways to un-Trump America

John Sims A-Jazeera  /  November 7, 2020 Trump is fired. Now we have to recover from his presidency and here is how. Trumpty Dumpty, broken and tired. Trumpty Dumpty, now you are fired! In 2017, I wrote a piece titled Five Reasons to like President Trump, where I anticipated how United States President...

The landslide that wasn’t: What the elections say about America

Marwan Bishara Al-Jazeera  /  November 5, 2020 It was supposed to produce a sweeping victory for Joe Biden, so why did so many Americans vote for Donald Trump ? The United States presidential elections were supposed to produce a sweeping victory for Joe Biden and a decisive win for the...

US Indiana elect first Muslim State Senator of Palestinian descent

Middle East Monitor  /  November 7, 2020 Fady Qaddoura, an American citizen of Palestinian origins, won the membership of the Senate of Indiana, becoming the first Arab Muslim in the state legislature, and the third Palestinian to win the US elections 2020, after defeating his rival John Ruckelchaus. Democrat...

UN records 33 Israel settler attacks on Palestinians picking olives last month

Middle East Monitor  /  November 7, 2020 The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recorded 33 incidents where people believed to be Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians picking olives, or damaged their trees and produce. In a statement, UN OCHA disclosed that these violations were documented between...

EU must take stronger action, not just condemn Israel’s policies, officials say

Middle East Monitor  /  November 6, 2020 European and Palestinian officials warned on Tuesday that linking normalisation with the occupation state of Israel with peace between Israelis and Palestinians is naive. A webinar organised by the European-Palestinian Relations Forum (EuroPal Forum) saw Palestinian diplomat Afif Safieh, Member of the Irish...