World Council of Churches calls for EU sanctions on Israel
Middle East Monitor / June 15, 2020
Israel should be punished with EU wide sanctions if it goes ahead with its planned annexation of further Palestinian territory, the World Council of Churches has said in a letter to the foreign ministers of the 27-country block.
“The EU must surely suspend the EU-Israel...
US Ambassador says Israeli leaders have failed to reach annexation agreement
Middle East Monitor / June 15, 2020
The US Ambassador to Israel, David M Friedman, and Israeli leaders failed to reach agreement on the annexation plan at a meeting yesterday, local media have reported. Friedman is known to support Israel’s illegal settlements built on Palestinian land. He has said in...
UN Security Council to discuss Israel’s annexation plan
Middle East Monitor / June 15, 2020
The UN Security Council is scheduled to convene on 24 June at foreign minister level to discuss Israel’s plan to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Observer at the UN, Riyad Mansour, announced yesterday.
Mansour told Voice of Palestine radio that...
Israel’s Netanyahu hails US’ sanctions on the ICC
Middle East Monitor / June 15, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hailed US President Donald Trump for imposing economic sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, Israeli media reported.
Trump last week authorised new sanctions against prosecutors and officials who are involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials involved in possible war crimes in...
Israel builds new Jerusalem road that will link settlements as government weighs West Bank...
Stephen Farrell, Maayan Lubell & Rami Ayyub
Reuters / June 15, 2020
JERUSALEM - Construction is under way on a major new ring road for Jerusalem that Israeli officials say will benefit all of its residents, but critics of the project say is another obstacle to Palestinian hopes to make East Jerusalem the...
EU Commission will not accept us in antisemitism group
Arthur Goodman
EU Observer / June 12, 2020
The EU Commission Directorate General for Justice has refused to accept European Jews for a Just Peace into the Commission's Working Group on Antisemitism.
The directorate set up the "Working Group on the implementation of the council declaration on the fight against antisemitism" in December...
Israel’s annexation of the West Bank will be yet another tragedy for Palestinians
Ian Black
The Guardian / June 11, 2020
Netanyahu’s threat will end hopes of a two-state system and probably result in expulsions and violence.
Unsurprisingly, Benjamin Netanyahu has now made things starkly clear. On 28 May the Israeli prime minister explained that when – not if – his government goes ahead with unilateral...
Massive protest against Israel demolition of Islamic cemetery in Jaffa
Middle East Monitor / June 13, 2020
On Monday, Israeli bulldozers started the demolition of the cemetery in preparation for building a new Israeli housing project.
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the city of Jaffa organised a protest on Tuesday against the Israeli demolition of a historic Islamic cemetery, Anadolu Agency reported.
Protestors performed the...
Far-right Israel MK: Negev Bedouins are a ’time bomb’ that should be ‘defused’
Middle East Monitor / June 13, 2020
Far-right Israeli MK and former Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the birth rate among the Bedouin community in Negev as a “demographic time bomb” that should be “defused”, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
The Times of Israel reported Smotrich stating that there are some 200,000 Bedouins in the...
