Israel kills and ‘honors’ people with disabilities
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / December 3, 2021
To mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Israeli military tweeted a photo of its communications tower in Tel Aviv lit in purple on Friday.
The military claimed that the gesture was “in honor of people with disabilities in Israel and...
NSO Group: Israeli company spyware ‘hacked US State Department phones’
Middle East Eye / December 3, 2021
Reuters reports the hacks focused on US officials either based in Uganda or working on matters related to the East African country.
The iPhones of at least nine US State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using spyware developed by...
Israel closes Palestinian-majority football ground after win over Beitar Jerusalem
Mustafa Abu Sneineh
Middle East Eye / December 3, 2021
Bnei Sakhnin, currently third in Israel's premier league, has been banned from playing at its own ground after victory over club whose fans celebrate racism.
Israeli authorities have banned Bnei Sakhnin, a major football club for Palestinian citizens of Israel competing in the...
Sally Rooney: Anyone who has visited Palestine could not fail to support her decision
Alexandra Pringle
Middle East Eye / December 3, 2021
Experiencing what Palestinians endure daily changes you forever. That's why many writers who've been to the Palestine Festival of Literature backed her refusal to publish in Israel.
Irish author Sally Rooney recently made the decision not to have her latest novel published by...
The reconstruction of Gaza has been a failure
Ariel Gold
The Nation / December 3, 2021
The 2014 plan has largely institutionalized Israel’s control of the region and failed Gazans.
This week, the Senate votes on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would increase the Pentagon’s budget by $37 billion to a whopping $778 billion for the...
America’s pro-Israel diplomacy at the UN hits a new level
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / December 2, 2021
Israel seems to have acquired another formidably biased ally in the latest US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Her Trump era predecessor Nikki Haley once said, "If there's anything I have no patience for, it is bullies – and the...
Hamas outlines three priorities to support Palestinian cause
Middle East Monitor / December 2, 2021
Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, said Thursday there are developments in the region that are in the interest of the Palestinian cause that will curb normalization deals with Israel, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Haniyeh made the comments at the...
Canada: academics vote to reject IHRA definition of anti-Semitism
Middle East Monitor / December 2, 2021
A major Canadian academic association representing more than 70,000 academic faculty and staff around the country has rejected the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism in an effort to protect academic freedom.
The motion adopted by the Canadian Association...
Sweden: motion to investigate ‘apartheid Israel’ passed by national church
Middle East Monitor / December 2, 2021
The Church of Sweden is the latest to join the growing list of Christian organizations to have raised concerns over Israel's imposition of apartheid on the Palestinians. In a formal move last week, the church's decision-making body, the General Synod, commissioned...
Israel ‘whitewashed’ probe into army killings during Gaza march of return
Jack Dodson
Middle East Eye / December 2, 2021
Report says Israel deliberately failed to probe actions of its forces over two-year protests during which hundreds were killed.
A report released on Thursday accuses the Israeli military of improperly investigating its own policies and practices during the Great March of Return, when hundreds of...
