Palestinians in Israel: Netanyahu’s racism makes us want to vote
Leaders of Arab Joint List say prime minister’s incitement against Palestinian citizens of Israel could backfire.
Arwa Ibrahim
Al Jazeera / September 13, 2019
Jaffa, Israel - Days ahead of a national parliamentary vote the streets of this Palestinian city, which was absorbed into the Tel Aviv municipality after 1948, were buzzing with election fervour.
Campaign...
UK MPs warn Israel is becoming an apartheid state
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Benjamin Netanyahu at No. 10 Downing Street, in London, United Kingdom on September 5th, 2019.
Some 113 British members of parliament have warned that Israel is in danger of becoming an apartheid state. The bleak assessment...
Israel to close Palestinian territories on election day
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
The Israeli military will impose a total closure on the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip during Tuesday’s parliamentary election, Anadolu Agency reports.
“According to the security situation evaluation and directives of the political level, total closure will be imposed in the areas of the...
Netanyahu: If re-elected I will annex settlements in Hebron
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared this morning “for the first time” that if re-elected, he will annex Kiryat Arba and other settlements in Hebron, reported the Jerusalem Post.
Netanyahu made the remarks speaking to Efi Triger on Army Radio‘s Good Morning Israel show, just one day...
Israel to rule on revoking BDS founder’s residency
Middle East Monitor / September 16, 2019
Efforts to revoke the residency of Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS), have been escalated to Israel’s deputy Attorney General for a decision over his status in the country.
Barghouti, considered “major threat to the citizens of Israel” by...
Netanyahu’s annexation plan is a liberal Zionist dream
Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor / September 13, 2019
The liberal Zionist “two state solution” supporters have been out in force, tweeting about how they “condemn” and are “concerned” about Benjamin Netanyahu and his plan to annex as much as a third of the occupied West Bank. With Israel’s latest General Election coming...
Video: Diaries of childhood in military detention
BBC August 28, 2019
Palestinians who were made to go through Israel's military court system as children speak out.
Last month Israel's Supreme Court refused to hear a petition by a human rights group demanding that Palestinian children detained in Israeli jails be allowed to telephone their parents. The case cast...
How Israel helped whitewash Indonesia’s anti-leftist massacres
To advance its political, economic, and security goals, Israeli intelligence helped whitewash the murder of half a million members of the Indonesian Communist Party and other leftist groups in the 1960s.
Eitay Mack
+972 / September 9, 2019
In October 1965, the Indonesian government launched a massive purge of left-wing and communist parties in...
Video: Going to school under Israeli occupation
The Electronic Intifada / September 5, 2019
https://youtu.be/GGvDeMIVTWQ
Omar Hajajleh is a local school bus driver in the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja. Al-Walaja lies between the city of Bethlehem and occupied East Jerusalem.
In 2015, Israel built its separation wall directly through Hajajleh’s land, cutting off his family home from...
Occupation good for Palestinians, says Israeli opposition chief
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / September 10, 2019
Benny Gantz, chief of the Israeli army during Israel’s 2014 massacre in Gaza, is borrowing apartheid South Africa’s talking points to boost his election campaign.
Gantz heads the allegedly center-left opposition coalition hoping to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s elections later this month. In a...
