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...
UN regrets US president’s sanctions on ICC
Middle East Monitor / June 12, 2020
The UN human rights office said Friday it regrets a set of sanctions authorised by the administration of US President Donald Trump against International Criminal Court (ICC) officials who prosecute American troops, Anadolu Agency reports.
Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human...
Israel’s next UK ambassador is a settler extremist
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / June 12, 2020
Israel’s next ambassador to the UK is a pro-settler activist who has promoted the movement to destroy Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Tzipi Hotovely once claimed that there is “no Palestinian people.”
A 41-year-old extremist, she openly states that Palestinians deserve less rights than Jews. She...
