Israel’s annexation drive requires fighting for justice in one state
Yara Hawari
Middle East Eye / June 4, 2019
Palestinians are in a position of historic vulnerability as we approach a potentially monumental period of negotiations.
A group of former EU ministers recently published a letter in The Guardian warning that the situation in Israel and Palestine is “sliding into a one-state reality...
The EU and Israel’s killing partnership
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / June 5, 2019
More than 150 European academics and researchers are demanding an end to EU funding of Israeli weapons firms under the guise of supporting research.
In a letter to European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and research chief Carlos Moedas on Tuesday, the researchers decry how funds are granted to Israeli...
A Palestinian response to Jared Kushner’s racist remarks
Haidar Eid
Mondoweiss / June 5, 2019
Take up the White Man’s burden —
Send forth the best ye breed —
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild —
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
— from The White Man’s Burden — The United...
European researchers and academics protest involvement of Israeli arms companies in EU research programs
European researchers and academics protest involvement of Israeli arms companies in EU research programs
June 4, 2019
More than 150 European researchers and academics have written to the European Commission demanding the exclusion of Israel and its military companies from new EU research program Horizon Europe.
Since years, the EU has approved hundreds of research...
The ‘deal of the century’: US blessing for Israel’s land theft and ghettoization of...
Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye / May 9, 2019
Trump’s Middle East team appear to have begun implementing the plan over the past 18 months even without its publication
A report published this week by the Israel Hayom newspaper apparently leaking details of Donald Trump’s "deal of the century" reads like the kind...
Israel twists law to dodge ICC probe
Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada / May 30, 2019
Israel is relying on US muscle to stop the International Criminal Court investigating alleged war crimes perpetrated in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
“The International Criminal Court in The Hague has no jurisdiction to discuss matters concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,”...
The perverse logic of Britain’s foreign minister
Omar Karmi
The Electronic Intifada / May 23, 2019
Boycotting Israel is anti-Semitic.
That at least is the view of the German parliament, where a vote Friday saw lawmakers denounce – in a non-binding vote – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, because “the ‘don’t buy’ stickers of the BDS movement on Israeli products with...
Netanyahu’s plan is for Palestinians to accept their brutal defeat
Talal Ahmad Abu Rokbeh
Middle East Eye / May 24, 2019
The endgame is to wear away hope until nothing but acceptance of Israel's total and complete victory feels possible.
I was a student at An-Najah University in the West Bank in 1999 when I was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint for...
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-apartheid Wall Campaign
May 15, 2019
From Palestine
73 European Palestine and migrants rights groups unite for a #WorldwithoutWalls
73 European Palestine solidarity and migrants rights groups and networks from 17 European states have chosen Nakba Day 2019 – the Day Palestinians reaffirm their commitment to the struggle for the return of their refugees –...
