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...
The BBC’s sophisticated distortion of Palestinian protest and Israeli power
Ahmed Abu Artema
Middle East Eye / May 17, 2019
I was interviewed for the documentary 'One Day in Gaza'. It adopts Israel's narrative, portraying Palestinian victims as aggressors.
The BBC recently aired a documentary titled One Day in Gaza, which concentrated on the terrible events of 14 May 2018, during the Great March...
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 –...
No way to treat a child
Promote Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation – US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (A national coalition of hundreds of groups working together for freedom, justice, and equality).
Read the document.
Palestinians unanimously condemn German Parliament’s attack on the right to boycott Israel’s apartheid and...
May 24, 2019 by Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
Germany, Palestine
Through statements issued by both the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and Palestinian civil society groups, and protests at German Representative Offices in Ramallah and Gaza, Palestinians have unanimously condemned the German Parliament’s May 17 resolution...
Israel’s ethnic cleansing in Palestine is not history – it’s still happening
Ben White
The Middle East Eye / 22 May 2019
What's happening across the West Bank and East Jerusalem is not merely military occupation
Speculation over the White House’s "Middle East peace plan" continues to dominate media coverage of Israel and the Palestinians, the latest example coming with the announcement of a Bahrain-hosted "workshop" in June...