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...
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...
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...
