Anti-Arab campaign fails to give Netanyahu clear majority in Israel election
The National / September 18, 2019
While the ballots are still being counted, the prime minister doesn’t appear to have secured the majority he needs to keep his job and dodge a corruption indictment.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell short of a parliamentary majority with his religious and nationalist allies...
Israel election: Joint List alliance celebrates high turnout, threatening to topple Netanyahu
Middle East Monitor / September 18, 2019
The Joint List, an alliance of parties consisting of prominent Palestinian citizens, has celebrated a high turnout of voters in yesterday’s General Election in Israel. The leader of the bloc, Ayman Odeh, also hailed the fact that the incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin...
Victory as German court rules anti-BDS motion breaches principle of equality
Middle East Monitor / September 18, 2019
A German court has ruled that the exclusion of a Palestinian organisation from a cultural festival on account of its support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement constituted “unequal treatment” and a breach of law, four months after the German parliament...
Palestinians in Israel: Netanyahu’s racism makes us want to vote
Leaders of Arab Joint List say prime minister’s incitement against Palestinian citizens of Israel could backfire.
Arwa Ibrahim
Al Jazeera / September 13, 2019
Jaffa, Israel - Days ahead of a national parliamentary vote the streets of this Palestinian city, which was absorbed into the Tel Aviv municipality after 1948, were buzzing with election fervour.
Campaign...
UK MPs warn Israel is becoming an apartheid state
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Benjamin Netanyahu at No. 10 Downing Street, in London, United Kingdom on September 5th, 2019.
Some 113 British members of parliament have warned that Israel is in danger of becoming an apartheid state. The bleak assessment...
Israel to close Palestinian territories on election day
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
The Israeli military will impose a total closure on the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip during Tuesday’s parliamentary election, Anadolu Agency reports.
“According to the security situation evaluation and directives of the political level, total closure will be imposed in the areas of the...
Netanyahu: If re-elected I will annex settlements in Hebron
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared this morning “for the first time” that if re-elected, he will annex Kiryat Arba and other settlements in Hebron, reported the Jerusalem Post.
Netanyahu made the remarks speaking to Efi Triger on Army Radio‘s Good Morning Israel show, just one day...
Israel to rule on revoking BDS founder’s residency
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
Efforts to revoke the residency of Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), have been escalated to Israel’s deputy Attorney General for a decision over his status in the country.
Barghouti, considered “major threat to the citizens of Israel” by...
Netanyahu’s annexation plan is a liberal Zionist dream
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / September 13, 2019
The liberal Zionist “two state solution” supporters have been out in force, tweeting about how they “condemn” and are “concerned” about Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to annex as much as a third of the occupied West Bank. With Israel’s latest General Election coming...
Video: Diaries of childhood in military detention
BBC August 28, 2019
Palestinians who were made to go through Israel's military court system as children speak out.
Last month Israel's Supreme Court refused to hear a petition by a human rights group demanding that Palestinian children detained in Israeli jails be allowed to telephone their parents. The case cast...
