Israel: ‘We can destroy Iran’s nuclear programme’
Middle East Monitor / March 27, 2021
A senior Israeli military official has declared on Friday that his country has the ability to "completely destroy Iran's nuclear programme."
Tal Kalman, head of the Strategic Division and the Third-Circle Directorate of the Israeli army, told Israel Today that 2020 was a "good"...
Israel detains three prominent Hamas leaders in West Bank
Middle East Monitor / March 26, 2021
The Israeli army detained three prominent Hamas leaders the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that an Israeli soldier detained Hatem Qaffeisha (58), a top Hamas leader in Hebron and a Palestinian lawmaker.
Former Local Governance Minister Isa al-Jabari (55), and...
Hamas elects first female to political bureau
Middle East Monitor / March 26, 2021
Hamas announced the appointment of a Palestinian woman as a member in its political bureau for the first time since its creation.
Jamila al-Shanti (64) is the first woman to become a member of its bureau.
Speaking to Anadolu Agency she said that she came...
In sharp disagreement with IHRA, new definition insists BDS is not anti-Semitic
Middle East Monitor / March 26, 2021
In the latest opposition to the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, favoured by staunch advocates of the state of Israel, a group of over 200 academics and experts have created a new anti-Semitism definition which excludes the...
Israel imposes travel ban on Al-Aqsa Mosque Imam
Middle East Monitor / March 26, 2021
The Israeli occupation authorities have imposed a travel ban on Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, the president of the Supreme Islamic Council in Jerusalem, Wafa news agency has reported. Sheikh Sabri is banned from traveling abroad for two months under the renewable order.
The 82-year-old...
Engaging the world: How Hamas crafts its foreign policy
Imad Alsoos
Middle East Eye / March 26, 2021
Book by Daud Abdullah explores the principles guiding the Palestinian movement as it navigates complex geopolitical relationships.
A new book explores the trajectory of the Palestinian movement Hamas’s external relations since its inception. In Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’s Foreign...
How Palestine is a critical feminist issue
Nada Elia
Middle East Eye / March 25, 2021
Newly formed Palestinian Feminist Collective is promoting a truly intersectional and decolonial vision.
Within minutes, the signatures started coming in, not as a trickle but a surge - from the US and Palestine, but also from England, Ireland, Australia, Argentina, Sweden,...
Opposing Zionism is not hate speech, new antisemitism definition asserts
Ali Harb
Middle East Eye / March 26, 2021
Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, endorsed by more than 200 scholars, says boycotting Israel is not necessarily a form of bigotry.
More than 200 international scholars, including experts on Jewish and Holocaust history, have released a new declaration on antisemitism stating that...
Palestine elections: Israel arrests Hamas leaders in West Bank
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 26, 2021
Israeli forces reportedly intimidated members of Hamas movement and warned them against running in the May legislative elections.
Israeli forces arrested three prominent Hamas leaders in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Friday morning, Palestinian news sources reported.
The arrests...
Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki worked for Israeli spy firm
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / March 25, 2021
President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki worked for an Israeli firm accused of involvement in surveillance of Palestinians under Israeli military occupation.
Psaki’s public financial disclosures show that she earned at least $5,000 as a “crisis communications consultant” for AnyVision.
The disclosure...
