Biden administration quietly ramping up aid to PalestiniansMatthew Lee
AP / March 31, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is quietly ramping up assistance to the Palestinians after former President Donald Trump cut off nearly all aid. Since taking office with a pledge to reverse many of Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian decisions, the administration has allocated nearly $100 million...
US aid is tied to Palestinian acquiescence to the two-state illusion
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / March 30, 2021
The US has reversed one aspect of the Trump administration's foreign policy in Palestine; humanitarian aid will be resumed with a $15 million grant for vulnerable Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. "Our engagements all have the same...
Israel ignores visas requests from EU delegation aiming to observe Palestine elections
Middle East Monitor / April 1, 2021
The EU on Tuesday accused Israel of ignoring its repeated requests to grant visas to its delegation who intend to observe the upcoming Palestinian elections.
In a press conference held in the headquarters of the Palestinian Central Elections Committee in occupied Ramallah,...
US human rights report continues Trump-era labelling of West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem
Middle East Monitor / April 1, 2021
US President Joe Biden's administration has continued the Trump-era policy not to refer to the West, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem as "occupied territories" in its title, but added a caveat.
In its '2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Israel, West...
PLO says no to elections without Jerusalem
Middle East Monitor / March 31, 2021
An Executive Member of the Central Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation called on Tuesday for the international community to bear the consequences of Israel's possible refusal to allow Palestinians in Jerusalem to participate in the upcoming elections. Ahmed Majdalani said...
Palestine elections: Talks collapse over formation of joint left-wing list
Adam Khalil
Middle East Eye / April 1, 2021
Sources at the talks blamed the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for scuppering negotiations to take part in upcoming elections on a joint slate.
Palestinian leftists have failed to form a coalition to compete in May's legislative elections for...
How Israeli rights groups prevent Palestinians from framing their own reality
Haneen Maikey & Lana Tatour
Middle East Eye / March 31, 2021
Imbued in the settler-colonial system, Israeli human rights organisations appear to view Palestinians as little more than a raw data source, while Jewish staff set the agenda.
In recent years, people of colour working in the human rights...
Israeli forces rearrest Palestinian man celebrating release after 20 years in prison
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 31, 2021
Magd Barbar's welcome home party raided by the Israeli military, who wounded several Palestinians, before releasing him again on Wednesday.
The scenes of jubilation following the Tuesday release of Magd Barbar, a Palestinian man who spent 20 years in jail, were brought to...
UK school textbooks on Middle East conflict altered to favour Israel: Report
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / April 1, 2021
Study found alterations made to text, timelines, maps and photos after intervention by Board of Deputies of British Jews.
A group of academics has called for the immediate withdrawal of two textbooks used by UK high school students which they say...
Who are the Israel lobbyists that want David Miller fired ?
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / March 31, 2021
A coalition of pro-Israel activists are campaigning to have a British professor fired for his opposition to Zionism.
Earlier in March, the UK’s University of Bristol announced it had launched an investigation into Professor David Miller, an expert on political lobbies.
The Support David Miller campaign responded that...
