Israel protests: Four things you need to know

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  March 10, 2023 Middle East Eye breaks down what's driving the unprecedented demonstrations and what's at stake. Israel has been engulfed in...

Pentagon chief ‘disturbed’ by West Bank violence and warns against inflammatory rhetoric

The Guardian  /  March 10, 2023 US Defence secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit was disrupted by protests against prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial changes The Pentagon...

[BDS] Court tosses Israel lobby lawsuit against US scholars

Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada  /  March 9, 2023 A court in Washington, DC has entirely dismissed a lawsuit against the American Studies Association over its support of...

The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly

Edo Konrad +972 Magazine  /  March 9, 2023 By marking one Israeli politician as unacceptable, U.S. Jews are sidestepping the need to reckon with the wider...

Tel Aviv attack follows ‘new crime of execution’ in Jenin

Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada  /  March 9, 2023 Three people were wounded, one critically, in Tel Aviv late Thursday by a gunman who was shot and...

[support for an Israeli racist] Tory peer accuses UK government of ‘effectively boycotting’ Israeli...

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  March 9, 2023 Lord Polak questions decision not to engage with far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who was previously convicted of...

Israeli protesters disrupt Netanyahu trip to Rome on ‘day of resistance’

Oren Ziv Middle East Eye  /  March 9, 2023 Demonstrators against judicial overhaul block traffic on the way to the airport, as mass rallies take place...

US approves Smotrich visa despite his calls for Palestinian town to be ‘wiped out’

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  March 9, 2023 A myriad of rights groups called for the far-right minister to be denied entry into the US over his...

Former police officers publish letter calling on Netanyahu to fire Ben-Gvir

Middle East Monitor  /  March 9, 2023 Former Israeli police officers have called on Benjamin Netanyahu to fire National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in an...

Teen among four Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in West Bank raids

Middle East Eye  /  March 9, 2023 The killings take this year's Palestinian death toll to at least 78, including 14 children and a woman. Israeli forces...