Israel to dispatch head of spying agency to ask Arab countries to accept annexation
Middle East Monitor / June 16, 2020
Chief of Israeli Mossad, Yossi Cohen, is set to visit Arab countries to persuade them to accept the planned annexation of the occupied West Bank, Al-Rai Al-Youm reported yesterday.
Quoting Israeli TV Channel 11, the Arabic paper said Cohen would visit both Arab countries with and those...
Hamas urges united ‘resistance’ against West Bank annexation plan
Al-Jazeera / June 15, 2020
Senior Hamas official also calls for 'union of political leadership' as Israel prepares to start annexation process.
Hamas has called for unity among Palestinians and "resistance" against Israeli plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.
Senior Hamas official Salah al-Bardawil said at a news conference...
BDS – Baldassi and others v. France: criminal convictions of BDS activists violate freedom...
Andreina De Leo
European Legal Support Center (ELSC) / June 16, 2020
On June 11, 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECt.HR) delivered the much-awaited judgement Baldassi and Others v. France (application no. 15271/16). The Court found by a majority that there was no violation of Article 7 (no punishment without law)...
From occupation to ‘occupy’ – the Israelification of American domestic security
Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone / June 9, 2020
One of the first comprehensive surveys of Israeli training of US local and federal law enforcement officials.
(Editor’s note: The eruption of national protests against police brutality following the murder of George Floyd have shed new light on Israel’s training of local police officers...
Bolsonaro has turned Brazil into Israel’s new best friend
Eman Abusidu
Middle East Monitor / June 15, 2020
It seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he said in December 2018 that the government of Jair Bolsonaro will bring “a new era” in relations between Israel and “the major power” Brazil. The extreme right-wing Bolsonaro has turned...
Israel – Supreme Court judge receives threatening letter
Middle East Monitor / June 15, 2020
Security guards working to protect courts across Israel have complained to the police about a threatening letter sent to Supreme Court Judge Anat Braun, Arab48.com has reported. The police have opened an investigation, and pointed out that the message was sent to Braun’s house.
The...
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...
