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Jonathan Cook Middle East Eye  /  March 29, 2021 Extreme religious and settler parties are a firm majority in Israel’s new parliament. Now they want a leader truly committed to their cause. As 13 parties struggle with Israel’s complex post-election maths, seeking alliances that can assure them power, the most...

Jonathan Cook Middle East Eye  /  March 29, 2021 After a pact brokered by Netanyahu, the Jewish Power party leader and former Kahanist has been catapulted into a potential kingmaker role. He has been described as the Israeli equivalent of a Ku Klux Klan leader and compared to the head of the Proud...

Yvonne Ridley Middle East Monitor  /  March 29, 2021 A war of words has erupted after more than two hundred Jewish academics launched the most damning indictment to date of a controversial definition of anti-Semitism which has itself been adopted by thirty-four countries, countless universities, political parties and hundreds...

Tamara Nassar The Electronic Intifada  /  March 28, 2021 Israel is committing an ongoing Nakba in occupied East Jerusalem. Settler organizations are threatening to forcibly evict 15 Palestinian families from their Jerusalem homes in the next few months. This amounts to 37 households and around 195 individuals, according to Palestinian human rights group...

Middle East Monitor  /  March 23, 2021 Students at the University of Bristol have spoken out in defence of prominent British Professor David Miller who is under attack for criticising the Zionist state of Israel. Other university students have joined them in their defence of the renowned lecturer....

Palestinian BDS National Committee  /  March 25, 2021 You can read the JDA in full here see also: https://palestina-komitee.nl/opposing-zionism-is-not-hate-speech-new-antisemitism-definition-asserts/ Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism The “Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism” (JDA), despite its flaws detailed below, presents a mainstream alternative to the fraudulent so-called IHRA definition of antisemitism and a “cogent guide” in the fight against real...

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss  /  March 26, 2021 The news from the four elections inside two years in Israel is that there is little ideological debate in the country: right-wing Jews hold a very strong majority. While Israeli voters are deeply divided over Netanyahu, nearly 80 of the 120 members...

Ismail Haniyeh Middle East Monitor  /  March 26, 2021 Ismail Haniyeh is the head of the Hamas Political Bureau, and the former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister. This article was first published by Anadolu Agency, and has been edited for MEMO. The views expressed in this article belong to the...

Middle East Monitor  /  March 27, 2021 Palestinian health authorities on Saturday registered 23 new fatalities and 1,319 infections from the coronavirus pandemic, Anadolu Agency reports. Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said 20 deaths and 714 cases were recorded in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, while 605 cases and three...

Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada  /  March 26, 2021 On the eve of Israel’s elections on Tuesday, several candidates were interviewed during a live broadcast at Khan al-Ahmar, pledging to destroy the Palestinian village. It wasn’t the first time that an Israeli politician made a campaign promise to raze Khan al-Ahmar and...