Berlin Jewish museum director forced out by Israel lobby
Riri Hylton
The Electronic Intifada / June 20, 2019
The director of the Jewish Museum Berlin was forced to resign last week following pressure from Israel and its lobby.
The Central Council of Jews in Germany criticized the museum for tweeting an article on the 240 Jewish and Israeli scholars who signed a petition opposing the...
America’s confrontation with Iran goes deeper than Trump
The real goal is domination of the Middle East—and that’s been a bipartisan US strategy for decades.
Trita Parsi
The Nation / June 20, 2019
When President Barack Obama accused opponents of his 2015 Iran nuclear deal of being “armchair” warmongers luring Congress toward war, his critics feigned anger. The alternative to Obama’s deal...
Annexation: how Israel already controls more than half of the West Bank
Annexation would only formalise a situation in which almost two-thirds of Palestinian territory is controlled by Israel and settlers live as Israeli citizens
Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye / 18 June 2019
A state of de facto annexation already exists on the ground in most of the occupied West Bank.
Almost two-thirds of...
Israeli channel airs call to expel all Palestinians
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / June 18, 2019
The Israeli international TV channel i24 News last week aired a call for the total ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
“There will never, ever be a two-state solution,” British far-right demagogue Katie Hopkins stated. “Israel will become the super force here. You will have...
‘World Refugee Day’: Palestinians keep their right of return alive through hope, resistance
Ramzy Baroud
Palestine Chronicle / June 19, 2019
The United Nations’ World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20, should not merely represent a reminder of “the courage, strength and determination of women, men and children who are forced to flee their homeland under threat of persecution, conflict and violence.”
It should also be...
VIDEO’S – Palestina: vlucht boven een wirwar van controleposten
Mehdi Belmecheri-Rozental
ORIENT XXI / 29 mei 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=BAYRzxmtzIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq-knWWK1_g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=qE2eWlHEPwI
Gaza unemployment soars as medicine stocks hit zero
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / June 17, 2019
As Qatar delivered $20 million in cash to aid impoverished families in Gaza on Sunday, a shortage of essential medicines threatens the lives of patients in the occupied territory.
Gaza’s health ministry has less than a month’s supply of more than half of the...
Why I’m optimistic about the ‘deal of the century’
David Hearst
Middle East Eye / June 12, 2019
The deal presents the biggest opportunity to those who have the most to lose from it
In selling the yet-to-be-published "deal of the century" (DoC), its principle authors have said the following:
That the Palestinians are not yet capable of governing themselves (US president's son-in-law Jared Kushner);...
Israel and the West: ‘Shared values’ of racism and settler-colonialism
Joseph Massad
Middle East Eye / June 13, 2019
While propping up an apartheid regime, Western governments refuse to share the Palestinian people’s democratic goals
Over the last two decades, the boycott of Israel has become a significant part of the resistance of the Palestinian people and their international supporters to Israeli...
Media blackout as Israel’s largest banks pay over $1 billion in fines for US...
Similar revelations about other banks and offshore tax-evasion schemes — such as those contained in the Panama Papers — led to global protests and even the resignations of some world leaders
Whitney Webb
MintPress News / March 21, 2019
WASHINGTON — Israel’s three largest banks — Hapoalim Bank, Leumi Bank and Mizrahi Tefahot...
