State of Exception – What role has local and international law played in the...
Raja Shehadeh
The Nation / July 15-22, 2019
Living and working as a lawyer in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, I have followed the changes that Israel has been making to the laws in force there since the late 1970s. Over the course of the first 24 years of its occupation, Israel...
The Palestinian refugees and the ‘monologue of the century’
Or why the analogy between Palestinian displacement and the Jewish 'exodus' from Arab countries is misleading.
Lorenzo Kamel
Al-Jazeera / June 24, 2019
In 1948, about 450 Palestinian villages were razed to the ground by Israeli forces and about 770,000 people - including about 20,000 Jews expelled by Arab militias from Hebron, Jerusalem, Jenin, and...
G20 and Peace to Prosperity: a tale of two very different economic summits
In Japan, the US president strode with confidence, but Jared Kushner's plan faltered in Bahrain
Raghida Dergham
The National / June 29, 2019
The G20 summit in Osaka has been the most important event of the past week. The US president headed to Japan with all the confidence of a leader of...
The unwritten history of Israel’s alliance with the Shah’s dictatorship
For years, Israel maintained close political, economic, and security relations with the Shah of Iran. Newly-declassified documents reveal that Israeli leaders were well aware of his murderous suppression of political opponents.
Eitay Mack
+972 Magazine / June 24, 2019
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, during which the...
Adalah demands Israel cancel illegal ‘admissions committees’ enforcing segregation in dozens of communities across...
Adalah / June 26, 2019
Committees in Israeli Jewish towns can reject potential residents based on 'social suitability', essentially enforcing de facto housing segregation between Jewish and Arab citizens.
"Admissions committees" in dozens of Israeli Jewish communities across the country are operating in severe violation of the Admissions Committees Law and...
VIDEO – Permission denied: children leaving Gaza for medical treatment
+972 Magazine / June 20, 2019
https://youtu.be/zOY8UkPOVpk
Filmmaker Jen Marlowe follows the family of Mohamed Saleh and several other children in the Gaza Strip as they navigate the often Kafqaesqe process of getting permission from the Israeli army to leave the besieged strip for medical treatments that are unavailable there.
A +972...
European governments must ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements say major European trade unions
June 24, 2019
34 European trade union organisations representing millions of workers across Europe have written to the European Commission and European governments demanding a ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements.
The EU considers Israeli settlements as illegal under international law, however it allows Israel to export large quantities of...
VIDEO – Refugees from Syria
VIDEO – Refugees from Syria – among whom many Palestinians – packed
in the already overcrowded Palestinian refugee camp Bourj al-Barajneh – Beirut
source: The Financial Times / November 28, 2018
https://next-media-api.ft.com/renditions/15428163829760/1280x720.mp4
We can hack any iPhone, Israeli spy firm claims
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / June 24, 2019
Israeli spy firm Cellebrite’s new software can hack any iPhone in the user’s possession, the company claimed earlier in June.
The software also works on iPads and on many Android phones.
The latest version can “perform a full file system extraction on any iOS device,”...
Palestinians resist US plan for more efficient Israeli occupation
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / June 24, 2019
There have been protests in several Palestinian and Arab cities in the days leading up to the Bahrain conference this week.
On Saturday, the White House unveiled the economic component of the Trump administration’s so-called Deal of the Century, that it plans to showcase at the conference.
In...