PA: Israel’s racism is the main obstacle to peace
Middle East Monitor / March 12, 2020
The Palestinian Authority condemned on Wednesday the culture of hate and racism within Israel, mainly among the right-wing parties, Al Sabeel newspaper has reported. Such racism in Israel, said the PA, is the “main obstacle” to peace.
“Racism and hate,” said the Foreign Ministry in Ramallah,...
B’Tselem rejects Israel Attorney General’s objection to ICC jurisdiction
Middle East Monitor / March 12, 2020
Leading Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem has described the country’s Attorney General’s objection to International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction in Palestine as “divorced from reality”.
In a new position paper published yesterday, B’Tselem said that the Attorney General’s claims that the ICC lacks jurisdiction “rely on...
Palestinian voters are the new power brokers in Israel, much to Netanyahu’s chagrin
Yair Wallach
The Guardian / March 5, 2020
Palestinians flocked to the Joint List party and denied the prime minister a majority. Now they could even help oust him
This election, the third in a year, was supposed to finally deliver Benjamin Netanyahu’s victory. His party, Likud, ran a relentlessly dirty campaign, which...
Israel’s Right had a good election. So did Israeli Arabs. That may be no...
Patrick Kingsley
The New York Times / March 4, 2020
Arab lawmakers won a record number of seats in Israel’s election, even as the Israeli right also made gains.
UMM AL-FAHM, Israel — When the Israeli right won a narrow lead in the country’s general election on Monday, Yousef Jabareen, an Arab lawmaker, grimaced...
Coronavirus cases in West Bank hit 30 amid pandemic
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / March 11, 2020
There are now 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, in the occupied West Bank, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday.
All of those cases are in the Bethlehem area, except for one in Tulkarm.
“COVID-19 cases reported from...
‘Zionism’s last hope’: The Joint List cannot reform Israeli colonialism
Lana Tatour
Middle East Eye / March 10, 2020
It is time to forgo the illusion of inclusion and to mobilise around a radical project of decolonisation.
Israel just held its third round of parliamentary elections in a span of a year. While neither of the two frontrunners - Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud...
Israeli Apartheid
Middle East Monitor / March 12, 2020
If any country which claims to be a democracy, its potential prime minister declares that the votes of a significant minority are not part of the democratic ‘equation’, they would be rightly condemned as racists. That is exactly what Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu declared when claiming...
Joint List and Blue and White meeting postponed
Middle East Monitor / March 11, 2020
The first meeting between MKs belonging to the Joint List and the Blue and White bloc due to take place yesterday has been postponed until today, Arab48 reported.
Reporting Arab MK Mansour Abbas, the news site said that the meeting was delayed as there was insufficient...
In change, US describes East Jerusalem Palestinians as ‘Arab residents’
Middle East Monitor / March 11, 2020
The US State Department changed its standard description of East Jerusalem Palestinians from “Palestinian residents” of the city to “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens” in an annual global human rights report released on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
The overwhelming majority of East Jerusalem’s more than 340,000 Palestinians...
Israel’s attack on Palestinian bread
Mariam Barghouti
Al-Jazeera / March 7, 2020
Why the closure of an old Palestinian bakery in Jerusalem matters.
On the rare occasions that the Israeli authorities afford me a permit to visit Jerusalem, my mother always insists that I bring her a stack of "ka'ak al-Quds" (ka'ak of Jerusalem).
Ka'ak is an...