Former AIPAC senior operative launches group to cultivate Democratic support for Israel
Alex Kane
Jewish Currents / March 18, 2021
In a sign of Israel advocates’ growing anxiety over progressive opposition to Israeli policies, AIPAC’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jonathan Kessler, is leaving his job at the flagship Israeli-government-aligned lobby to start a new advocacy group that he hopes will appeal to...
GOP Rep wants Biden to target BDS movement over false terror links
Michael Arria
Mondoweiss / March 16, 2021
A GOP lawmaker is claiming that a popular fundraising app used by the BDS movement could be funneling money to terrorists and is calling for the Biden administration to investigate.
A GOP lawmaker is claiming that a popular fundraising app could be funneling...
Decolonising Israel, Liberating Palestine
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / March 20, 2021
'The two-state solution has always been merely a cynical tool of conflict management never intended to actually resolve the conflict." Jeff Halper's succinct statement regarding international diplomacy over the loss of Palestine and Israel's colonial expansion provides the premise of...
Israel asks Abbas to call off Palestine elections
Middle East Monitor / March 20, 2021
Head of Israel's Shin Bet Security Agency Nadav Argaman has secretly met with Palestinian Authority (PA), Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas and asked him to call off Palestinian elections, Israeli media reported on Friday.
According to a report broadcast by...
Head of Israel party addresses Arabs: ‘Israel is not your country’
Middle East Monitor / March 20, 2021
Religious Zionism Chairman Bezalel Smotrich has issued racist statements against Arabs in Israel as Israel heads towards elections, Shehab News Agency reported on Friday.
According to Shehab News Agency, Smotrich addressed Arabs in Israel, declaring: "Israel is not your national state. If you accepted Israel as...
Abbas dismisses Nasser al-Qudwa from heading Yasser Arafat Foundation
Middle East Monitor / March 20, 2021
Palestinian Authority (PA), Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas has fired Nasser al-Qudwa from heading the Yasser Arafat Foundation, Wafa news agency reported on Friday.
This came after Al-Qudwa was dismissed from Fatah due to his insistence to run for parliamentary...
Israel settlers spray racist graffiti, set fire to cars in Palestinian village
Middle East Monitor / March 19, 2021
A Palestinian village northwest of Jerusalem has been left vandalised after Israeli settlers sprayed racist graffiti and set fire to cars, according to the Wafa news agency.
The Palestinian Civil Defence rushed to extinguish the fire which engulfed two vehicles.
Residents of Beit Iksa...
Palestinians protest Israeli plans to demolish 100 houses in East Jerusalem
MEE Staff
Middle East Eye / March 19, 2021
An Israeli municipality's 'biblical' tourism park construction project risks the homes of almost 1,550 Palestinians.
Hundreds of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem demonstrated on Friday in protest at an Israeli municipality plan to demolish 100 properties in order to make way...
Majority of Democrats say US should focus political pressure on Israel
Sheren Khalel
Middle East Eye / March 19, 2021
For the first time, the majority of Democrats surveyed by Gallup say US pressure should be focused on Israel, not the Palestinians
This year's annual Gallup poll has revealed a shift in sentiment among Americans regarding Israel and the Palestinians, with...
Palestinians protest Israeli police inaction amid crime wave
Linah Alsaafin
Al-Jazeera / March 19, 2021
Palestinian citizens of Israel blame Israeli police for high level of intra-communal violence within their community.
For the 10th consecutive week, thousands of Palestinians protested in front of the Israeli municipality building in Umm al-Fahm against the police and discriminatory Israeli policies against...
