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Asa Winstanley Middle East Monitor  /  November 22, 2019 For the last decade and more, Omar Barghouti has been one of the world’s most important Palestinian public intellectuals. A co-founder of the BDS movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, Barghouti has been instrumental in spreading the word about the movement. His clear-sighted, logical...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 23, 2019 On Friday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned the escalation of Israeli settlers’ violence against Palestinian citizens and blamed the US for this escalation, Al-Watan Voice reported. In a statement, the PA’s Foreign Ministry announced that the escalation against Palestinians “is part of an expansionist colonial project...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 22, 2019 Settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Yitzhar have recently been involved in a series of violent incidents, attacking and threatening Israeli soldiers patrolling the area. Fifty cars belonging to Palestinians were found burned and vandalised this morning by Jewish settlers in the occupied...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 22, 2019 Israeli authorities’ closure of Palestine TV offices was slammed by an international press freedom watchdog yesterday. In a statement, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Israel to “allow Palestine TV and the Al-Arz Media Services Company to reopen their offices and resume their work”, also...

B’Tselem  /  November 21, 2019 On 3 November 2019, at about 11:30 A.M., soldiers detained ‘Abd a-Razeq Idris, 13, from the Abu Jales neighbourhood. They put him and a jeep, blindfolded him and drove him around. They then took him to al-Harika neighbourhood, about a kilometer from his home, where...

Reuters  /  November 21, 2019 LONDON - Britain urged Israel to halt its “counterproductive” settlement expansion on Thursday, saying it was illegal under international law. The Foreign Office reiterated its position on the settlements after the United States on Monday effectively backed Israel’s right to build Jewish settlements in the...

Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada  /  November 22, 2019 https://youtu.be/ektfMEVt7Q4 During Wednesday’s Democratic presidential primary debate, Senator Bernie Sanders spoke sympathetically about Palestinians without any prompt from the moderators. Responding to a question on foreign policy, Sanders first laid out how rather than siding with the “brutal dictatorship” in Riyadh, he would bring Saudi Arabia...

Raja Shehadeh The Guardian  /  November 21, 2019 Palestinians are surrounded by settlers and abandoned by the west, but this latest setback will only boost support for their cause. The day before US secretary of state Mike Pompeo’s announcement that the United States now considers the Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be...

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  November 21, 2019 In an unsurprising move which exposes the ongoing US commitment to establish new paradigms for Israel in which Palestine is completely eliminated, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Israeli settlements as “not necessarily illegal”. At first glance, this declaration isolates the US and Israel...

Middle East Monitor  /  November 22, 2019 Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Wednesday called on the European Union and Russia to revoke the citizenship of Israeli settlers who live in settlements built illegally on Palestinians land. Speaking during an emergency cabinet meeting in Ramallah, Shtayyeh slammed the US administration’s decision to no...