‘President Biden’ would not erase Trump’s concessions to Israel
Ramona Wadi
Middle East Monitor / Apil 30, 2020
US Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden will not reverse the Trump administration’s unilateral decision to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem if elected president. “The move shouldn’t have happened in the context as it did, it should happen in the context of...
Palestinian factions insist that annexation will not pass unnoticed
Middle East Monitor / April 30, 2020
Palestinian National and Islamic Forces of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate stressed on Wednesday that Israeli plans to annex illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank will not pass unnoticed, Quds News has reported.
“Our people are able to stand firm in the face of the Zionist-American...
Over 180 rights bodies urge ICC prosecutor to investigate Israel’s crimes in Palestine
Middle East Monitor / April 30, 2020
More than 180 Palestinian, regional and international human rights coalitions, organisations, and individuals yesterday urged International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, to investigate Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
In a joint open letter initiated by Palestinian coalitions representing over 200 Palestinian civil society organisations,...
UK Supreme Court boosts BDS
Asa Winstanley
The Electronic Intifada / April 29, 2020
The UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign won what it said was a historic legal victory for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on Wednesday.
BDS campaigners celebrated as the Supreme Court in London struck out an anti-divestment rule imposed by the government in 2016.
As the ruling...
Annexation of occupied territory is a crime
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / April 29, 2020
Israel is about to annex large swathes of the occupied West Bank, making the territory formally part of the Zionist state according to Israeli law. The millions of Palestinians living in the West Bank will continue to be denied the vote and...
The Israeli military opposes its politicians’ annexation of the Jordan Valley
Adnan Abu Amer
Middle East Monitor / April 28, 2020
Israeli generals have revealed that announcing the annexation of the Jordan Valley and West Bank settlements will lead to the collapse of the Palestinian security services, because they will lose control of the public and will be seen as colluding with...
Trump’s ‘peace’ plan threatens to revoke citizenship of Israeli Palestinians
Jonathan Cook
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs / May 2020
The Trump Administration’s decision to green-light Israel’s annexation of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank grabbed headlines when it was published in late January. But one of its other provisions—one equally cherished by Israel’s extreme right—went largely unnoticed.
Under the...
